Crossover Maestro 2012

Kaloust Guedel’s ‘Crossover Maestro’ is not just a painting, but an environment made with paint and canvas. The marks are all urgent and immediate, and the colour palette is a mix of high and low: silver sits next to hot pink, and the red outlines are like a child's drawing. The piece exists in this amazing space between sculpture and painting. You can see the layering and folding of the canvas, and the way Guedel plays with transparency and opacity, building up a surface that feels both chaotic and deliberate. There's one small section at the base that has cascading trails of pigment like a miniature waterfall, which for me is such a beautiful, almost incidental moment, yet somehow it holds the whole piece together. I think about artists like Kurt Schwitters, who used found materials to create these incredible, sprawling collages, and you can see this same spirit of experimentation and play in Guedel's work. It's a reminder that art is a conversation, an ongoing exchange of ideas, and that there are no rules, just possibilities.