KLOSKA (Ovidiu Closca)

born in Romania, Neamt district,in a small town in N-E of Romania at 27 of july 1977.

In 2000 he graduated the Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" from Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunication. In 2009 he graduated master classes at "George Enescu" Art University from Iasi, Faculty of Fine Arts with the project "Urban wear - oniric interferences - object of art". Lives and creates in Focsani, Vrancea district from Romania.

- 1999 - personal exhibition - pen and ink drawings - The house of the students, Iasi, Romania - "The student Art Week" ;
- 1999 - personal exhibition - pen and ink drawings - "Luceafarul" Theater, Iasi, Romania;
- 1999 - collaboration with Literal Association"Outopus" - illustration of no. 5 number of the literary periodic;
- 1999 - collaboration with the poet and dramaturg Mircea Rotaru - illustration for the dramatic piece "The house between worlds";
- 2002 - personal exhibition - paintings and graphics on canvas - Art Galleries Focsani, Romania;
- 2002 - collaboration with the literary association "Oglinda Literara" Vrancea, illustrations for the no. 13/ year II;
For the period 2002 and 2007 - Art director and Master graphic designer - ONMEDIA Design, Focsani, Romania.
- 2007, january - TIAV Bucharest - International Festival for Visual Arts 2007 - represented by Hidalgo Art Gallery;
- 2007, february - group exhibition - ArtSpace 2000 - International Center for Culture and Arts "Arcus", Sf. Gheorghe, Romania;
- 2007, april - personal exhibition - "Hidalgo Art Gallery" - Focsani, Romania;
- 2007, november - personal exhibition - Art Galleries Focsani, Romania;
- 2007, october - personal exhibition - "Espace Costos" Gallery - St. Tropez, France;
- 2007, december - personal exhibition - Galleries of Art - Focsani, Romania;
- 2008, june - group exhibition - " Atelier 35" - World Trade Center, Iasi, Romania;
- 2008, july - personal Exhibition - "Incandescent and wears" - "Tonitza" UAP Art Gallery, Iasi, Romania;
- 2008, july - group Exhibition - " Moldavian Salons " - Galeries and Institutions from Bacau, Bucuresti, Chisinau;
- 2008, august - group exhibition - " The city" - World Trade Center, Iasi, Romania;
- 2008, august - group exhibition - " 4 romanian contemporary artists" - Nably, France;
- 2008, november - personal Exhibition - "Urban wear - oniric interferences - object of art " - International Center for Culture and Arts "George Apostu" , Contemporary Art Gallery, Bacau, Romania.

THE SUMMIT OF THE ANGELS …

Ovidiu Kloska, a technician, does not allow his profession to come out to light. His presence is perfectly shaped and he is open to substantial and unconventional dialogue. He is a painter and a poet in the same time. From another point of view, the rationalism implied by engineering can be found only when navigating the internet and signing his e mails with the exciting formula I AM KLOSKA.

On the rest, we are dealing with a free spirit, open towards the sky of fantasy, where the presence of gladiator angels reign over lucid insomnia and the turn into unusual paintings. The exercise and the performance in modern techniques of advertising design brought him reputation and all this turned into the promoter of painting. Actually, a poet disguised as a painter, Ovidiu KLOSKA wants to propose to modern man another way of imaging, in a way that common elements of traditional painting cannot find their place anymore.

He does not reject the classics, but he does not worship them with endless devotion either. He feels, in everything, just like a free man. His personal touch on every image comes from all this and it focuses almost entirely only on a specific abstract concept. His show in Focsani looked like the perfection of initiation in angiology, the presence of the angels and their lives aiming to ineffable, to mentally estranging from gravity. This is where the idea of the angel comes from, from a theological and artistic point of view. He is not interested in pointless endless discussions about the genre of angels, just like the previous ones, but only in the population of angels that live in the interval.

The interval is actually the space between God inside us and God outside us. Our guardian angel turns into the dominant element of the painting, in different situations. Kloska’s gloses on the subject are original and they lead to insomnia. Mostly that of the spirit called out from agreed upon conventions to propose another manner of negotiation with the sacred and the eternal. Animated spirit by insoluble questions, he goes deep with every piece on the lands of illusions. He does not give any sentences, he just invite us for journeys into the volatile zones of fiction and mister. Kloska never starts to forget from where he start and he doesn't brake himself to affirm that he's sometimes cross by the seductions of the delirium. He is speaking with angels. In a composition with an aspect of baroque unplaite of very well articulated luxuriant lines, he is calling the memory to imagine a possible dialog with the Guardian Angel. The questions sounds real, the answers are equivocal. The tension of the image associates vulnerable armour and cherub diaphans in a spectacle where the trumpets are sound spelling a possible apocalypse. The chromatics is forcing itself with precious Rembrandtian associations but also with loudly grays metallic articulated. In "the first photo session of a guardian angel" the heavy armors are becoming possible burden, fragile carcases where , in fact, the faith is living . Other times, the spectrum of impenetrable nights presumes grave coloring association. even funeral in bacovian key while the orgiastic feast of joining is having the devataiting air of heresy. The proportion between the dark colors and the cluster of gold yellow glitters that is inundating the sky of compositions is bringing to attention the cosmic couple of light and dark. The gushing fantasy, the nocturnal reverberations of the poetry, as the painter said, amplifies the sonority of chromatics and multiplies the dramatic development
of the forms in the graphic space. Not by fortuitous chance, Ovidiu Kloska is hearing the music of spheres and is seeing angels.

The translation between real and imaginary, between the form and the gesture desinhibated from the compulsion of the authority of tradition, is making the painter to reinvent the space from the perspective of a time animated only by the wing flapping of angel fall into sin.

Substantial plastic comments on such a theme proves the configuration of a vision, a implementation of a stylistic. So, adding ourselves to his tireless introspective
thought, but also to his poetic visionary utterance, I think we are really dealing with a real true creator. There, we can say, is a spirit witch is watching over our bourgeois reconciliation with ourselves ... " / Valentin Ciuca, Art Critic