Transcendental realism 

• 2007 
• Frank, Peter 

  + 1

  Oliva, Achille Bonito
• Miscellaneous 
• Da Plastique 

  + 1

  The Dawn Horse Press

7291527

Books

Transcendental realism

The art of Adi Da Samraj

Frank, Peter, Oliva, Achille Bonito

Da Plastique, The Dawn Horse Press

2007

First edition

50

29.8 x 21.0 cm

978-1-5709-7228-7

In this catalogue of Adi Da Samraj's collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2007, some of his most recent works are reproduced in stunning color. Adi Da Samraj's art conveys a profound spiritual message through the drama of visual form. That form can be figurative or purely abstract. It can be photographic or purely digital. It can be narrative even humorous or purely philosophical. It can be beautiful or it can be disorienting. All of his art is intended to assist the process of going beyond "ego", and discovering "reality itself, truth itself, and the beautiful itself". Achille Bonito Oliva, the chief curator of this exhibition writes: "Adi Da Samraj's two- and three-dimensional shapes are always concrete communicative realities, statements of a mental order that is never repressive or closed off, but always germinating and unpredictable. In all instances, shapes germinate and multiply with sudden offshoots that reveal the potential of a new geometric eroticism." Adi Da Samraj describes his work as follows: "My images are about how reality is and they are also about how reality appears, in the context of natural perception, as a construction made of primary shaping-forces. My image-art is, therefore, not merely 'subjectively' or, otherwise, 'objectively' based. Rather, the images I make always utterly coincide with reality as it is. Therefore, I have called the process of the image-art I make and do 'Transcendental Realism'. Adi Da Samraj: The living body inherently wants to be one with the matrix of life. The living body always wants to allow the light of perfect reality into the "room". Assisting human beings to fulfill that impulse is what I work to do by every act of image-art. My images are created to be a means for the fully participating viewer to locate fundamental light the world as light, all relations as light, naturally perceived light as absolute light. My images, well-met, should bring tears to the eyes, restore laughter to the life, and, altogether, both show and give a perfect equanimity to the total world. Ultimately, when "point of view" is transcended, there is no longer any separate self at all but only love-bliss-brightness, limitlessly felt, in vast unpatterned joy.