Original artwork description:

Artwork Title: Veil of Resonance
Series: Between the Black and Divine
Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Artist: Ovidiu Kloska
Veil of Resonance stands as a visual incantation — a dense and fluid articulation of the metaphysical tension that defines contemporary abstraction. Within the framework of “Between the Black and Divine”, Kloska transcends the formal qualities of painting, positioning the work as an existential field — a vibrating interface between light and shadow, presence and void, energy and stillness.
In the evolving language of 21st-century abstraction, where gesture and materiality are often filtered through philosophical and even cosmological frameworks, Kloska’s painting proposes a synthesis: a luminous metaphysics of matter. Here, the black is not simply absence or silence, but a primordial field — the prima materia — within which all potentialities hum beneath the surface. Light, on the other hand, is not illustrative or decorative. It breaks through, pulses, and resonates as divine frequency, as memory of emergence.
The painting unfolds like a suspended breath in time, layered with veils of vaporous textures and fluid forms that refuse to settle. Translucent gestures, rhythmic drips, and cellular textures hint at a microcosmic dance — as if peering into the pulse of matter itself. The composition becomes a kind of inner topography, mapping the sublime threshold where consciousness meets the invisible forces shaping it.
In this work, abstraction becomes alchemical — a process of transmutation. What we see is not only paint but a distilled vibration of intent. It’s the territory where contemporary painting evolves past formalism, stepping into an ontological exploration. Veil of Resonance suggests that abstraction, at its most potent, is not about what is depicted but what is evoked: a felt presence, a metaphysical hum, a portal through which we intuit our place in the immensity of being.
Kloska’s surface holds space for silence, for energy, for entropy, and for light to reveal itself as a mystical actor. Matter vibrates not in static resolution, but in perpetual becoming. Darkness, in this context, is not the enemy of light — it is its container, its echo, its necessary foil. This dualism is not oppositional but symbiotic, forming the basis of a sacred dialectic that underlies both painting and existence.
Within the current paradigms of contemporary abstraction — increasingly leaning toward spiritualism, ecological cosmology, and post-anthropocentric philosophy — Veil of Resonance operates not as artifact, but as event. It invites the viewer not only to see, but to feel, to enter, to dissolve the boundaries between interior and exterior, material and immaterial.
In the vast silence between the black and the divine, this painting listens — and teaches us to do the same.

Materials used:

acrylics and spray paints on canvas varnished

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