Dark gothic Ovidiu Kloska painting Angel waiting 235

Angel Waiting (Composition 236)

An original contemporary abstract painting from The Book of Angels, exploring the silent threshold where light, presence and consciousness gradually become visible.

SOLD

Sold in April 2026 to a private collector in Bucharest, Romania.

Private Collection

Bucharest, Romania • April 2026

Artwork Information

Artist
Ovidiu Kloșka

Title
Angel Waiting (Composition 236)

Year
2026

Medium
Original acrylic painting on canvas

Dimensions
85 × 65 cm

Series

The Book of Angels

Status
Sold

Collection
Private Collection, Bucharest, Romania

Date of Acquisition
April 2026

Curatorial Essay

Angel Waiting (Composition 236) belongs to The Book of Angels, a series in which angelic presences emerge not as visible beings but as subtle manifestations of consciousness existing at the threshold between the visible and the unseen. Rather than illustrating a spiritual figure, the painting invites the viewer into a space where presence gradually reveals itself through light, silence and painterly transformation.

The composition develops through successive layers of luminous whites, warm ochres, deep greys and vibrant passages of crimson and orange. Dense textures alternate with translucent veils, allowing the image to remain suspended between formation and dissolution. Every gesture contributes to a state of continuous becoming in which no form is ever completely fixed.

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 composition as an external effect—it slowly emerges from within its material structure.

The waiting suggested by the title is not a passive condition but one of heightened awareness. The barely discernible figure appears to inhabit an interval where silence becomes a form of attention and light becomes a language of presence. The angel is sensed rather than described, allowing the viewer to experience the mystery of its emergence instead of receiving a definitive image.

As part of The Book of Angels, Angel Waiting (Composition 236) proposes that transcendence is encountered through quiet perception rather than spectacle. Painting becomes a place where matter remembers light, and where the invisible gradually 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 April 2026 by a private collector in Bucharest, Romania.

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