The Childhood of Chaos 10 original masterpiece O Kloska (1977)
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
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Whispers Beyond the Lace Curtain,
2025
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting : aerosol paint, acrylic, mixed media
80 x 80 x 2 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€800
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80 x 80 x 2 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Romania
"Whispers Beyond the Lace Curtain"
(from the series "The Wonderful Morning Dreams of Alice")
In "Whispers Beyond the Lace Curtain", part of the evolving dreamscape that is "The Wonderful Morning Dreams of Alice", Ovidiu Kloska invites us once more into the liminal realm between memory, fantasy, and sensory perception. This 80 x 80 cm mixed-media piece continues his exploration of visual poetics, yet it also resonates deeply with key trajectories in contemporary painting — particularly those engaged with post-abstraction, expanded materiality, and the aesthetics of the spectral.
Kloska's work shares affinities with the affective abstraction of artists such as Katharina Grosse or Shinique Smith, where gesture becomes a transmitter of internal states rather than formalist strategy. However, his approach is uniquely grounded in the tension between spontaneity and symbolic storytelling — a quality that gives this piece a narrative undertow. Here, the layering of translucent forms, airbrushed textures, and lace imprints creates an atmosphere of "haunted delicacy" — a term borrowed from the visual lexicon of hauntology and post-romantic abstraction.
The glowing orange nodes scattered across the surface function almost like psychic flare-ups, interrupting the flow of cool purples and ethereal greys. These chromatic intrusions suggest synaptic sparks — moments of lucid consciousness breaking through the fog of dreams, or perhaps trauma surfacing through reverie. This makes the painting not merely beautiful, but emotionally charged, gesturing toward the psychological landscapes explored in contemporary neuroaesthetics and the broader interest in the subconscious in art today.
Within the visual field, lace patterns and ornamental traces resist erasure — signifiers of memory, femininity, or domestic histories — echoing the material reclamation seen in practices like those of Firelei Báez or El Anatsui, where the decorative becomes political, and ornament holds ancestral weight.
The painting also dialogues with the contemporary fascination for the dream archive — a non-linear, non-rational container of personal mythologies — an area being richly mined across mediums in both visual and digital arts. In this way, Kloska aligns himself with the current shift toward introspective maximalism, in which inner worlds are rendered with sensual intensity and unapologetic emotion.
Ultimately, this piece functions as a threshold image — an invitation to cross from the waking mind into a deeper, symbolic terrain. It does not offer resolution, but rather, a heightened receptivity: to color, to form, and to the beautiful uncertainty of perception.
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Ovidiu Kloska is a young up and coming artist from Romania skilled in a variety of mediums including painting, photography and sculpture. His acrylic on canvas paintings are dramatic works that are reminiscent of sublime artists such as John Martin and J.M.W Turner. Meanwhile, his iron sculptors are abstract, industrial pieces which he categorizes within the stylistic modes of brutalism and deconstructionism.
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