Original artwork description:

“This Is How the City Melts in Autumn”
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Series: Beyond the Within
Artist: Ovidiu Kloska
This work is a poetic radiograph of disintegration. A city that no longer belongs to geography, but to memory. An inner architecture slowly detaching itself from reality, melting into a twilight of lucid reverie. The city doesn’t vanish — it becomes something else: a vapor with veins, a liquid presence, a whispering light layered like forgotten thoughts in an unfinished journal.
“This Is How the City Melts in Autumn” is a mental scenography — a mindscape composed of fragments from vanished worlds, invisible yet deeply felt. Here, light is not just a pictorial element, but an active character: able to alter matter, to turn contours into tremors, to rewrite immediate reality with a golden, melancholic, sometimes almost hallucinatory touch.
The artist’s predilection for forgotten graphisms — subconscious inscriptions, remnants of lost script, fragments of an emotional alphabet — comes to life in this piece as an unstable cartography of memory. Dispersed symbols, unfinished geometries, traces of a personal archive breathe beneath the fine layers of color and transparency.
The work feeds on a romantic memory, a nostalgia that does not mourn the past but distills it into atmosphere, into vibration. The city becomes a melted being, a semi-organic entity dissolving between what is and what might have been. A suspended reverie. A threshold between the concrete and the imagined.
“This Is How the City Melts in Autumn” does not illustrate — it evokes. It does not describe — it feels. It opens a window into a place where reality has already become memory, and memory — painted with light — becomes place.
If you observe closely, you’ll discover the ritual-like delicacy with which visual layers are simultaneously constructed and deconstructed — as if the painting breathes, vibrating between two worlds. Fragile, almost evaporated structures recombine and unravel an interior space that no longer exists in reality, yet persists with nearly painful intensity in memory.
Each stain, each fiber, each detail is imbued with the aching emotion of what once was and is no longer — yet still lives within us, quietly. It is not a visual memory in the illustrative sense, but pure experience, condensed into matter, into light, into vibration.
In essence, this painting becomes a relic of love for a place once full of life. A living city, a space inhabited by gestures, people, and bygone moments. Now, that place is no longer visible, yet it is more present than ever — preserved here, in this image, as a form of eternity.
Because yes — we are all worn down by the passing of time. We all carry within us the splendid ruins of emotional epochs. And that is why this work is more than a painting: it is a tender, living tribute to that “something” which still breathes in us, long after it disappeared from the world outside.


Ovidiu Kloska – The Artist Who Reveals the Boundaries of the Unseen

Biography and Education
Ovidiu Kloska (b. 1977, Roman, Romania) is a Romanian visual artist recognized internationally for his profound, visionary, and symbolically rich artistic universe. His educational background is as unique as his art: he first graduated from the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications at the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași (2000), then shifted his focus entirely to visual arts, completing both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts in Iași (2013–2016).

Artistic Vision
Ovidiu Kloska’s work transcends form and matter, functioning as a visual meditation on the mystery of existence. His art explores spirituality, dreams, the subconscious, delirium, transformation, and transcendence. Through a rich palette, deep textures, and refined symbolism, he creates portals to mystical, unseen realms — alternate dimensions filled with silence, poetry, and inner tremors.

“Uniqueness begins with the very capacity of inventing a universe out of things shattered by time,” Kloska declares — a belief that resonates through every brushstroke. His paintings become emotional and spiritual landscapes, merging abstract expression with intuitive ritual.

Recognition and Global Reach
– Over 2,000 of his artworks are part of private collections worldwide, including Europe, the USA, Asia, and the Middle East
– In 2023, he was awarded “Artist of the Year” on the prestigious international art platform Singulart (Paris), selected among more than 10,000 artists globally
– Member of the Romanian Union of Professional Artists (UAP)

Selected Exhibitions

Alone to the Invisible Touch, “Nicolae Mantu” Art Galleries, Galați, Romania (2015)

Memory Mark, Focșani, Romania (2009) – a concept show on memory and the aesthetics of the urban human

Espace Cotos Art Gallery, Saint Tropez, France (2007) – personal exhibition invited by French painter Georges Cotos

RomanArt Gallery, Roman, Romania (2019) – exhibition in his hometown

Artist Statement
"My visual universe is an alchemy between dream and matter, between what can be touched and what can only be intuited. I constantly seek that poetic tension between chaos and order, between darkness and light.

In my recent series Between the Black and Divine, I dive even deeper into this liminal space — a place where the absence of light becomes sacred, and the void itself begins to whisper. Black is not just color or shadow; it is a presence, a cosmic silence from which all forms emerge and dissolve. It holds within it memory, trauma, rebirth, but also the magnetic pull of the divine unknown.

I am drawn to surfaces marked by time — rusted metal, peeling walls, tree bark — textures that carry stories and spiritual residue. They speak to me, not in words, but in vibrations, in a language older than language. I collect these fragments of the world’s decay and translate them into my own visual grammar.

There is no separation between the physical and the spiritual in my art. The gesture becomes prayer, the pigment becomes energy, and the canvas transforms into a threshold. I am not painting objects. I am revealing frequencies — fields of tension between the seen and the unseen, between noise and silence, between the wound and the transcendence it can become.

To me, painting is an act of spiritual decoding — a ritual of opening the invisible into form, of letting the subconscious and the sacred collide. Each artwork is not just a finished piece, but a living process, a moment of surrender, and an invitation to the viewer to enter a space of contemplation, mystery, and transformation."

Materials used:

varnished acrylics and spray paints on stretched canvas

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