Quandra Loka:
The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light
? through November 17, 2012
November 18 - 25, 2012
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Galerie
Pien Rademakers
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Pien Rademakers is presenting four pieces from
Quandra Loka, a photographic suite by Adi Da Samraj,
at the 2012 PAN Amsterdam Art Fair. Pien Rademakers will
also present a video documentary on the making of the
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Pien Rademakers
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dates: November 18-25, 2012
address: RAI Parkhal (hall 8), Amsterdam, booth no.
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web address: here
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event date: November 18, 2012
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Interview with gallerist Pien Rademakers, who displayed works from Adi Da's Quandra Loka Suite in her Galerie Pien Rademakers in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and also exhibited them at the 2012 Pan Amsterdam Art Fair.
Pien talks about the significance of Adi Da's Image-Art, and the importance of spreading the word and having increasingly more people experience it.
For more about these exhibits, click here.
Music: Arabesque No. 2 by Claude Debussy; and
Prelude in G Minor by Frederic Chopin
Performed by: Naamleela Free Jones, on her album, Hers To Me
Camera: Tanja Fleischmann (Fleischmann Film)
Production: Jasper van Laar (Way Media) |
The
Quandra Loka Suite
Adi Da describes the Quandra Loka Suite
as being of "indefinite length". It is a vast Suite
comprised of over 21,000 images. Here are a few.
Click on images to view enlargements.
Quandra Loka #304
Triptych, face mounted pigment prints, 59 x 118 in / 150 x
300cm
Adi Da writes about His Quandra Loka Suite:
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Quandra Loka is a visual meditation on a very
simple circumstance: a woman in and near a pool of water.
Narcissus, the archetype of ego, gazes at his own reflection
in a pond, never able to contact the "object" of his
self-enamored affection. But Quandra, the true beloved,
is one with the water itself, whether in or out of the
pool.
 I shot the majority of the images in Quandra Loka
underwater, or with the camera lens partially submerged
in water, so that the water functions as a vast and
subtly complex lens, achieving visual results not possible
by any technical means. The images are made by a "technique"
that requires continuous participation in the living
instant of the photographic situation — sensitive to
the constantly changing sunlight conditions, the ever-shifting
minute movements of the subject, and even my own ability
to stay submerged underwater. This "method" is beyond
conceptual effort, beyond conventions of control in
the ordinary sense, beyond point of view. This process
of generating images — involving absolute awareness
of every detail of what is occurring and (simultaneously)
an intuitive trust in allowing the ultimately unpredictable
process to take place — is a means of allowing reality
to be self-manifested.
I intend these images to "picture" the unity of the
undifferentiated reality from which all appearances
emerge in a constant flow of changes. The entire span
of human possibilities is reflected in these images
— both "positive" and "negative." But all possibilities
are seen in the context of that inherent unity or indivisible
space. The positives and the negatives are all transcended,
rather than any attempt being made to render them acceptable
in and of themselves.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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In late 2002 and early 2003, Adi Da Samraj created the photographic suite, Quandra Loka. The images are generally multiple exposures on a single black-and-white frame of film. Adi Da then created configurations (diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs) from the single frame images.
Music is "Facing Beloved", from the CD, Facing Beloved, with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Subash Chandran (ghatam) and Ganesh Kumar (kanjira). This piece is based on a melody from J.S. Bach (siciliano) with elements of Raga Kirwani. |
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The
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Exhibition
at Galerie Pien Rademakers before Art Fair
As a preview to the exhibition at the PAN Amsterdam
Art Fair (November 18-25), Adi Da's Image-Art was displayed
at the Galerie Pien Rademakers.
Click on images to view enlargements.
Exhibition
at PAN Amsterdam Art Fair: Preview Day (November 17, 2012)
Click on images to view enlargements.
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