Dark gothic Ovidiu Kloska painting Angel waiting 235

Angel Waiting (Composition 235)

An original contemporary abstract painting from The Book of Angels, exploring the silent interval where unseen presences gradually emerge into light.

SOLD

Sold in May 2026 to a private collector in the United States.

Private Collection

United States • May 2026

Artwork Information

Artist
Ovidiu Kloșka

Title
Angel Waiting (Composition 235)

Year
2026

Medium
Original acrylic painting on canvas

Dimensions
85 × 65 cm

Series

The Book of Angels

Status
Sold

Collection
Private Collection, United States

Date of Acquisition
May 2026

Curatorial Essay

Angel Waiting (Composition 235) belongs to The Book of Angels, a series in which angelic presences emerge not as visible figures but as subtle manifestations of consciousness. The painting inhabits the silent threshold between appearance and disappearance, where light gradually reveals what cannot be fully seen.

Successive layers of mineral whites, luminous greys, incandescent reds and translucent passages create an atmosphere in constant transformation. Dense painterly matter slowly opens into radiant spaces, allowing the composition to exist in a state of continuous becoming. Every gesture contributes to an evolving balance between concealment and revelation.

Within Ovidiu Kloșka’s artistic practice, beauty is discovered through improbable configurations that gradually achieve an unexpected internal coherence. Rhythm, transparency, colour, gesture and texture interact intuitively until the painting begins to reveal relationships that could never have been anticipated. Light is not applied to the surface—it emerges from within it.

The angel remains suspended in a state of attentive stillness. Waiting is not understood as passivity but as a condition of heightened presence, where silence becomes the space through which transformation unfolds. Rather than illustrating a celestial being, the painting invites the viewer to experience the quiet intensity of an unseen presence.

As part of The Book of Angels, Angel Waiting (Composition 235) suggests that transcendence is encountered through subtle perception rather than spectacle. Painting becomes a place where matter remembers light, and where the invisible slowly acquires the density of presence.

Artwork Details

Original acrylic painting on canvas mounted on wooden stretcher
85 × 65 cm
Professionally framed
Ready to hang
Professionally varnished for long-term protection
Hand signed on the front and back
Certificate of Authenticity issued by the artist

Provenance

Created in 2026 and acquired in May 2026 by a private collector in the United States.

The artwork remains part of an international private collection and is representative of The Book of Angels, one of Ovidiu Kloșka’s major contemporary abstract painting series.