This is a wood marquetry landscape scene created entirely from wood. The variation in colours is obtained from using different wood types.
Length 40 cm
Width 29 cm
Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Jabrail Quliyev
- Wood marquetry maker
- Baku, Azerbaijan
- Master Artisan
Contact
Azerbaijani, Russian
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
Phone:
+994 503169631
+994 503169631
Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
From mark to masterpiece
- • Jabrail creates wood marquetry scenes and landcsapes
- • His pieces reflect the culture around the Caspian Sea and the Absheron peninsula
- • He sources his different wood types from all around the world
When Jabrail Quliyev went to visit the workshop of his carpenter friends in Russia, he encountered trees and wood types that were unfamiliar to the Caucasus region. This trip inspired him to explore the craft of intarsia and wood marquetry that originated in the Middle Ages, whereby a picture is created by inlaying different pieces of wood to create variations in colour and relief. Each composition begins with Jabrail finding a mark, or stain, on a wooden board and using it as an integral shape in his picture, kick-starting the piece. He recalls that learning this craft felt like learning the alphabet, since every type of wood, tree, colour combination and composition knack was utterly new to him. Jabrail had studied painting and sculpture prior to intarsia and this helped him with colour coding and relief techniques, resulting in the creation of exceptional marquetry landscapes.
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Photo: Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Immigrants
Photo: Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Fishermen's huts
This is an intarsia work created on an abandoned board at least 50 years old. Natural stains on this beech tree board dictated the location of huts in the Caspian Sea on a moonlit night.
Length 33.5 cm
Width 24.5 cm
Photo: Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Pipes
This landscape crafted with the art of wood marquetry renders a scene made with different wood types to achieve the red, yellow, and green colours of the tablecloth.
Length 25 cm
Width 20 cm
Photo: Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
Salt carriers
This scenic landscape is crafted only with wood to create colour. Three people push a cartful of salt sacks. It paints how the people of Absheron survived during World War II by selling and exchanging salt.
Length 25 cm
Width 42 cm
Photo: Kamal Muradzadeh©Michelangelo Foundation
The Misérables
This wood marquetry work is made with different kinds of woods to create variations in colour, shading and relief.
Length 64 cm
Width 46 cm
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