Original artwork description:

Angel waiting (Compositione 229) / 60 x 80 cm / acrylic on canvas / signed January 2025
In the infinite silence of the cosmos, where tradition's whispers meet the roar of modernity, the angel emerges—not as the serene figure of gilded iconography, but as a tempest of light and shadow, a being shaped by the artist’s daring vision. Ovidiu Kloska, through his series The Book of Angels, transcends the bounds of art history to redefine the celestial messenger for a fragmented and seeking humanity.
This painting, Angel Waiting, unfolds as an intricate dance of abstraction and metaphysical insight. Inspired by the fading echoes of old Orthodox mural paintings, the artist imbues the canvas with a deep reverence for the sacred, yet he refuses to bow to the strictures of tradition. Instead, with a philosopher’s mind and a physicist’s curiosity, Kloska reinvents the angel, crafting a figure that exists simultaneously in the realms of the real and the imagined.
A master of controlling contrasts between light and shadow, Kloska weaves luminosity into the depths of darkness, creating a radiant tension that brings the angel to life. His subtle ability to extract, through gestural strokes and vivid colors, a fantastical profile of a messenger is unparalleled—a messenger who bridges the artist's innermost self with the infinite Creator. The transitions between colors are so delicate and fluid in reality that no photograph can truly capture the revelation of standing before the painting. To admire it in person is to witness an emotional and spiritual unveiling that no image can adequately convey.
The strokes on the canvas, free yet deliberate, evoke the raw energy of creation. Through bursts of color and layers of texture, the angel is both revealed and obscured—a reflection of our modern struggle to reconnect with the Divine. Here, abstraction becomes a bridge, a language unshackled from the compulsion of historical authority. The angel does not merely wait; it vibrates, it breathes, it reaches through time and space, calling us back to a forgotten connection.
This is not just a painting; it is a testament to the artist's need to forge a new path in the depiction of the sacred. It is a space where the human and the divine, the ancient and the contemporary, collide and coalesce. In Angel Waiting, Kloska offers not merely an image, but an invitation—to pause, to reflect, and to see the spiritual anew.

Materials used:

varnished acrylic on stretched canvas

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