Original artwork description:

"Floral Gravity"
Part of the luminous series “Kafkian Eternity with Flowers at 7 PM”, the painting "Floral Gravity" signed June 19, 2025, continues the artist’s personal and poetic revolution of the still life genre. Measuring 60 x 80 cm, the work transforms a classical subject — the bouquet — into an incandescent eruption of emotion and time.
Historically, still life has been a silent genre — one that captured everyday objects, flowers, or food in precise detail. From the 17th-century Dutch vanitas paintings to Cézanne’s philosophical apples and Morandi’s hushed bottles, still life has always been a meditation on the passage of time, mortality, and the beauty of what is fleeting. It was about contemplation, about pausing to observe the world in its stillness.
But Kloska’s vision of still life explodes that stillness into motion. These are not flowers posed for admiration; they are energetic entities, burned by memory, desire, and dissolution. His abstract florals are less about botanical observation and more about the inner landscape of the self — a kind of existential bouquet unfolding in layered gestures and eruptive color fields.
“Floral Gravity” is thus not merely a visual composition — it’s a temporal device, a vessel of personal time. Here, still life becomes not a display of objects, but an intimate geography of feeling. The downward pull of the composition, the slow unraveling of pigment from the bouquet’s crown to the melting stem, echoes the weight of interiority, of unspoken memory, of time that belongs to the soul — not the clock.
The colors — incandescent reds, scorched siennas, and spectral pinks — don’t just define space; they define states of being. Kloska's gestural language becomes autobiographical: a record of presence, motion, doubt, tension, and grace. His florals float and collapse, pulse and fade, mirroring the fragile yet defiant rhythm of human existence.
Within the contemporary aesthetic paradigm, where attention spans fragment and digital imagery flattens perception, “Floral Gravity” offers something radical: depth, silence, and resonance. It reclaims slowness as a virtue and places the viewer in front of a living surface that does not seek to impress, but to transform.
This work, and the series it belongs to, can be understood as a new form of still life: not about objects seen from the outside, but about time felt from within. A still life where life is never still — it blooms, burns, and dissolves at 7 PM, the golden hour when memory and perception blur.
In this way, Ovidiu Kloska redefines still life painting not as memento mori, but as memento vivi — a reminder that even in silence and solitude, there is a universe blooming, collapsing, and being reborn.

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:

acrylics and spray paints on canvas varnished

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