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| Period | Contemporary (1945-today) |
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The Chrysalis of 7 PM
from the series “Kafkian eternity with flowers at 7 pm”
Signed: 15 June 2025
Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Artist: Ovidiu Kloska
In “The Chrysalis of 7 PM,” Ovidiu Kloska unfolds a vivid and intimate entry in his metaphysical series “Kafkian eternity with flowers at 7 pm.” This 60 x 60 cm painting is among the most spontaneous and accidental compositions of the cycle — a work born from impulse, gesture, and surrender, where artistic control dissolves into a kind of meditative abandon. The result is a visual organism in flux: a chrysalis of thought, emotion, and dream matter.
The surface radiates an urgent yet fluid dynamism. Color and form flow like a whisper — soft yet insistent — across the canvas. Here, movement becomes metamorphosis, and the painting evolves in front of the viewer as if breathing. It is not structured in the classical sense but lived into existence, unfolding in rhythms and fragments that echo the subconscious logic of dreams or memories half-remembered.
Gestural abstraction, in this context, transcends aesthetics and enters the territory of existential cartography. Kloska choreographs vibrant chromatic clashes — bold fuchsias bleeding into cobalt, orange flashes erupting through violet fog — all revolving around a central form that seems to suggest a pot or vessel, anchoring the painting. From this imagined container, reconstructed exotic flowers emerge: surreal, spectral, and hybrid, as if retrieved from a parallel botanical reality. They are not representations, but manifestations — symbols of psychological flowering, of reconfigured beauty.
This fragile bouquet speaks not of flora but of the possibility of reality itself being rewritten — recomposed by emotion, memory, and time. In Kloska’s hands, the act of painting becomes a ritual of reconfiguration: a dynamic whisper that dares to propose an alternate truth through color, gesture, and poetic dissonance.
“The Chrysalis of 7 PM” is a meditation on transformation suspended in flux — an aesthetic pause in the tension between decay and bloom, abstraction and meaning. It exemplifies the contemporary paradigm in which gesture is thought, spontaneity is structure, and art becomes a space where the possible reshapes the real.
