Between the Divine 13 (2020) Original Acrylic Painting by Kloska Ovidiu

Title: from the series " Between the Black and Divine " - " Composition 13 ", signed on April 2020
Tehnique: acrylic painting on stretched canvas / varnish / ready to hang
painting size: 100 x 100 x 4 cm LARGE SIZE !
signed 2020


In “Composition 13” (2020), from the series Between the Black and Divine, the pictorial field becomes a site of ontological tension, where matter and immateriality are held in a state of unresolved negotiation. The work resists representation in any conventional sense, instead proposing a condition of perceptual ambiguity in which the viewer is suspended between reading and sensing.

A horizontal structuring subtly organizes the composition, evoking the archetype of a horizon while simultaneously destabilizing it. This latent division suggests neither landscape nor abstraction fully, but rather a threshold—a liminal zone where distinctions between above and below, surface and depth, begin to dissolve. The eye drifts rather than fixes, encountering zones of density and dispersion that refuse hierarchical order.

Chromatically, the painting operates within a restrained spectrum of desaturated blues, greys, and muted earth tones. Light does not enter the composition as illumination but as diffusion—an internal, almost atmospheric presence that permeates the surface. This creates the sensation of submersion, as though the image exists beneath a veil or within a suspended medium where visibility itself is attenuated.

The central mass—texturally complex, agitated, and layered—functions as a point of condensation. Here, the accumulation of gestures, scratches, and material interventions produces a dense, almost entropic structure. It suggests processes of formation and disintegration simultaneously, as if the painting were recording a moment in which matter both coheres and disperses. Below, darker, weightier forms emerge with a gravitational pull, anchoring the composition while also intimating an upward movement that remains incomplete.

Surface becomes a critical register of meaning. The etched lines, abrasions, and palimpsestic layers operate not as descriptive marks but as temporal inscriptions—traces of action, revision, and resistance. In this sense, the painting unfolds as duration rather than image, embodying a time-based process that remains visible in its material residue.

Within the conceptual framework of the series, “black” is reconfigured as depth, opacity, and potential, while the “divine” is neither icon nor symbol but a dispersed luminosity—an immanent, almost imperceptible vibration within the field. The work occupies precisely this interval, where neither pole resolves, and meaning emerges only through sustained attention.

“Composition 13” ultimately constructs a space of perceptual hesitation. It does not seek to be deciphered, but to be experienced as a condition—one in which seeing becomes an act of duration, and understanding remains provisional, contingent, and open.

Materials used:

acrylic hand painting on stretched canvas / ready to hang

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 100 x 100 x 4cm (unframed) / 100 x 100cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky

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