Original artwork description:

TITLE: COMPOSITION 16
Series: Between the Black and divine
Acrylic painting on Canvas / varnished
One of a kind artwork
Size: 100 x 100 x 4 cm
Ready to hang
Signed on the front May 2020
Style: Expressive and gestural
Subject: Creation, metaphysics, energy, outer and inner space

"Between the Dark and Divine" – A Series by Ovidiu Kloska
In the vast silence of darkness, where light trembles like a distant whisper, Ovidiu Kloska’s paintings emerge as celestial echoes—ephemeral yet powerful, enigmatic yet deeply intimate. "Between the Dark and Divine" is a series that explores the fragile balance between obscurity and illumination, between the hidden and the revealed, between the fleeting and the eternal.

These works are not merely painted surfaces; they are traces of creation itself, remnants of past gestures, moments of light captured before they vanish. We are star dust in the eternal spectacle, part of the universe’s enigma, and through each brushstroke, Kloska captures this mystery—a cosmic dance of textures, colors, and spectral vibrations.

Fascinated by the interplay of light and surface, the way illumination transforms an object into something sublime, the artist shapes his compositions like fleeting apparitions. Cold light cuts through the darkness, reflecting off unseen walls, dissolving into textures that recall weathered places—cracked sidewalks, rusted fences, forgotten urban landscapes where time has left its imprint. His paintings absorb these influences, translating them into abstract terra-morphisms, evoking the poetic beauty of decay and rebirth.

Each canvas in this series feels like a lost memory from another life, reassembling itself in the viewer’s mind. They act as windows into an unrevealed space of consciousness, a world where form dissolves into mist, where vibrant traces of red, blue, and gold flicker through deep, moody voids. This is an art of presence and absence, of movement and stillness, of forgotten details waiting to be rediscovered.

Kloska’s unique signature lies in his treatment of light—how it moves, how it breaks through the dark, how it becomes something more than mere illumination. His works resonate with the quiet drama of Bach’s nocturnes, inviting the viewer into a space where silence is filled with meaning, and where the seen and the unseen merge in an infinite dialogue.

These paintings do not reveal themselves all at once—they unfold, they whisper, they evolve in time. Let them haunt you. Let them illuminate you.

Materials used:

acrylic hand painting on stretched canvas / ready to hang

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