Original artwork description:

Title: Arabian Night
Series: Beyond the Inside
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
Artist: Ovidiu Kloska
In Arabian Night, Ovidiu Kloska unfolds a richly stratified visual field that resonates with the sensibilities of lyrical abstraction and the ethereal poetics of post-war and contemporary painting. Echoing the spectral atmospheres of artists such as Zao Wou-Ki, Wolfgang Paalen, or Pat Steir, the work resists narrative in favor of reverberation — an abstract, immersive incantation where texture, light, and shadow become the true language of meaning.
What distinguishes Kloska’s vision is his singular approach to light and darkness — not as binary opposites, but as interwoven forces. Light is never merely illumination in his paintings; it is an internal vibration, a living pulse that emerges from within the layered matter of the canvas. Darkness, far from being a void, is charged with resonance — a fertile depth from which forms subtly rise and dissolve. This interplay generates a rhythm of appearances and vanishings, like the shifting architecture of a dream or the fading memory of a forgotten myth.
In Arabian Night, one senses this quiet tension unfold across the canvas: veiled geometries, spectral imprints, and translucent textures pulse beneath a veil of deep indigo and obsidian, disrupted by fleeting touches of amethyst, pale turquoise, and cosmic pinks. These chromatic breathings do not merely describe space — they activate it, inviting the viewer to enter a liminal zone, a threshold space where perception itself begins to shimmer and dissolve.
This atmospheric and gestural approach positions Kloska’s work in dialogue with a lineage of artists who seek to materialize the immaterial — to render visible the forces that dwell beneath surface and silence. The composition becomes not just an image, but a site of slow revelation, where inner and outer worlds blur and the unseen gains presence.
As with all works in the Beyond the Inside series, Arabian Night is not a painting to be deciphered, but one to be experienced — to be inhabited slowly, like a dream whose meaning continues to echo long after waking. In this suspended zone between light and shadow, between presence and disappearance, Ovidiu Kloska’s unique visual language emerges with quiet force and unmistakable clarity.

Materials used:

acrylics and spray paints on stretched canvas varnished

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