Quandra Loka:
The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light
January 17-20, 2013
January 26 - March 3, 2013
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Galerie
Pien Rademakers
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Pien Rademakers is presenting seven works from
Quandra Loka, a photographic suite by Adi Da Samraj,
at the 2013 Realisme Art Fair in Amsterdam. Pien Rademakers
will also present a video documentary on the making of
the suite. The Galerie will follow the Realisme Art Fair
exhibition with an extended exhibition of these works in Galerie
Pien Rademakers. |
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Pien Rademakers
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Quandra Loka exhibition
Realisme Art Fair
dates: January 17-20, 2013
address: Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, Piet Heinkade
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Booth 18
web address: here
Quandra Loka solo exhibition
Galerie Pien Rademakers
dates: January 26 - March 3, 2013
address: KNMS-Laan 291, 1019 LE Amsterdam
web address: here
Sunday, January 27, 11am - 1pm:
Special reception for devotees of Adi Da, with an introduction
by Ruchiradama
Nadikanta. Live music by Helen Brunner (violin)
and Otto
Probst (piano).
Sunday, January 27, 1-2 pm:
Sasha will lead a guided Yoga Nidra meditation, especially for the opening of the Adi Da Samraj exhibition.
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Pien Rademakers exhibited works from Quandra Loka in
2012 as well. In the following video interview, she talks
about that experience.
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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
2013 Realisme Art Fair
From 17 until 20 January 2013, the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam
(above) will host the 10th edition of Realisme,
the only Dutch art fair which is focused solely on contemporary
figurative art.
Thirty-four renowned galleries from the Netherlands and abroad
will show and sell works by Dutch artists, as well as artists
from around the globe who have applied themselves to figurative
as well as realism in painting and sculpture. Both acclaimed
artists with a respectable oeuvre, as well as young, upcoming
artists who give new impulses to figurative art will be represented.
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