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The Rebirth of Sacred Art

The Rebirth of Sacred Art

Reflections on the Aperspectival Geometric Art of Adi Da Samraj

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In 2008 the City of Florence invited Adi Da Samraj to exhibit four monumental pieces of His aperspectival geometric art in the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, a space containing the renowned perspectival fresco The Last Supper by Renaissance master Domenico Ghirlandaio.

The spatial juxtaposition of these two radically different kinds of art from two very different eras provided a unique opportunity for Professor Gary J. Coates to write this book that considers the nature, meaning, and purpose of Adi Da Samraj’s art.

With clear and informative text and relevant illustrations, this book offers essential background on the history of perspectival art, as it has unfolded since the Renaissance.

In addition to Coates’s essay, this volume contains “The Maze of Ecstasy” by Adi Da Samraj, also written in response to the Cenacolo exhibition. When these two essays are read together, they provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the place of Adi Da’s art within the context of the unfolding of Western art, consciousness, and culture.

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The living body-mind inherently wants to Realize (or Be One With) the Matrix of life. The living body always wants (with wanting need) 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.

—ADI DA SAMRAJ

“Adi Da Samraj has established a new use of geometry, as a fertile field of unconventional aesthetic communication that takes delight in developing its principles asymmetrically, through surprise and feeling.”

—ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA acclaimed critic; curator; former Director of the Biennale di Venezia

“[Adi Da’s] pursuit of the spiritual paths found in early abstraction, from Kandinsky to Mondrian, and [his] translation of that pursuit into the digital age restore a transcendental spirituality to the materialism of the machine aesthetic.”

—PETER WEIBEL Director ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

ISBN: 978-1-57097-321-5

Format: 6 x 9 inches, softcover