Original artwork description:

"Composition 81"
Acrylics and spray on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, signed | May 2025
Series: The Wonderful Morning Dreams of Alice
In "Composition 81", Ovidiu Kloska continues his vivid incursion into the emotional strata of perception, channeling a visual symphony that hovers between oniric reverie and metaphysical inquiry. As with other works in The Wonderful Morning Dreams of Alice, this composition resists fixity — instead, it pulsates with a sense of the non-finite, a flowing dynamic reminiscent of the luminous disintegration found in the late abstractions of Turner or the intuitive chaos of neo-romanticism.
The surface is not simply a stage for colors or forms, but a psychic membrane — it breathes, it trembles. Veils of violet, arterial red, and spectral blue crash and swirl in a choreography of tension and release, embodying a restlessness of traversed spaces — spaces of memory, sensation, and inner knowledge. There is no static object here, only transition. Everything is in flux, metamorphosis, spiritual urgency.
Kloska’s pictorial gesture does not merely depict the material world; it attempts to absorb it, to distill its volatile energies into a visual syntax that feels both ancient and utterly immediate. One senses a hunger for primary truths, not as resolved answers, but as ecstatic processes. This is not narrative painting — it is existential cartography.
What stands out is his fearless interweaving of mediums — acrylics and aerosol fuse into spontaneous marks, recalling both the freedom of the subconscious and the tactile residue of urban textures. Here, echoes may still linger from earlier series like “The Wear of the City”, where everyday matter was elevated to symbolic strata. But “Composition 81” delves deeper — into a cosmos of symbolic implosions and dream-fractured forms.
There is, finally, a subtle violence in Kloska’s mark-making — not destructive, but initiatory. Color wounds the canvas and light leaks through. It is a moment of inner detonation — the viewer is caught not in a tranquil dream, but in a morning dream trembling with epiphany.
Ovidiu Kloska remains, in every gesture of this work, a seeker — one who paints not destinations, but the very breath of becoming.

Materials used:

acrylics and spray painting on stretched canvas

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