The Adi Da Foundation

Hanson testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:16:40 +0000

Hanson testimonial

Through his artwork, Adi Da is redefining the nature of art, returning art to its ancient, sacred origins. In his remarkable, transformative artwork, viewers are being given both an embodiment of Adi Da’s realization, and an opportunity to experience the ecstatic unity of creation. His images… offer a truly rare opportunity for revelation.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 15:16

"Redefining the nature of art...

DAVID T. HANSON
Former Professor of The Rhode Island School of Design

Category

Art

Tofani testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:13:56 +0000

Tofani testimonial

Clearly Adi Da is an artist focused on understanding the basis of real life, of human life, and trying to understand the connection between everyday life and human needs. Everyday life is not simply something realistic and linked to the needs of the human body. It is something linked to superior considerations. The art of Adi Da is clearly focused on this.

Beauty is balance. Adi Da takes chaos and in a certain sense simplifies it, but in another sense makes it even more complex; and in an aesthetic, moral, philosophical, and spiritual sense, he gives that which we see around us meaning.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 15:13

"He gives that which we see around us meaning...

ANAMARIA TOFANI
Former Director of The Uffizi Museum, Florence

Category

Art

Weibel testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:11:41 +0000

Weibel testimonial

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.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 15:11

"Restore(s) a transcendental spirituality to the materialism of the machine aesthetic...

PETER WEIBEL
Chairman of The ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Category

Art

Oliva testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:03:46 +0000

Oliva testimonial

I believe that art should always be a surprise. It must create, even in the critic, not emotion, but a sense of insecurity. When one views Adi Da’s art, it is easy to see “pop art”, “op art”, all the possible linguistic, ethnological, and iconographic references—but, in the end, the final work is always a surprise. With Adi Da’s work, I did not simply find myself in front of a new personal iconographic universe, but rather in front of images that returned me to an experience of “epiphany”.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 15:03

"Images that returned me to an experience of “epiphany”...

ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA
Acclaimed Critic; Curator;
Professor of Contemporary Art (La Sapienza University, Rome);
Director of the 45th Biennale di Venezia (1993);
Recipient of the Valentino d’Oro, 1991;
Curator of Adi Da’s Solo Collateral Exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale

Category

Art

Kuspit testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:01:33 +0000

Kuspit testimonial

It is a rare artist who can convey, convincingly, the sense of being face to face with the source of being. Adi Da can clearly live in the depths without succumbing to their pressure, bringing back pearls of art to prove it.

What is perhaps most striking about Adi Da’s photographs is their gnostic quality—the intricate movement of light and shadow that gives them their expressive depth and profound intimacy. It is more than a matter of standard chiaroscuro. Adi Da is not simply employing the evocative power of light and shadow, but bringing out their emblematic character. Interweaving them—and in numerous works skeins of light (“the fire of the sun”) play over and within shadowy if transparent water (“the water of life”)—Adi Da suggests the union of opposites that is the core of mystical experience. Ecstatic experience of their unity brings with it a sense of the immeasurable.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 15:01

"Expressive depth and profound intimacy...

DONALD KUSPIT, Ph.D.
Author; Scholar; Art Critic; Excerpt: “The Female Nude in the Art of Adi Da”

Category

Art

Kuberski testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:59:37 +0000

Kuberski testimonial

At the level of form and style, The Mummery Book is reminiscent of Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, and Joyce. Adi Da makes words crackle and swoon, pound and console with an endless suggestiveness guided by a desire to open up the reader’s heart and imagination to the possibility of transformation…. As playful as it is profound, as heart-breaking as it is consoling, The Mummery Book is an absolutely unique literary experience.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 14:59

"An absolutely unique literary experience...

PHILIP KUBERSKI, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Wake Forest University;
Author of Chaosmos: Literature, Science, and Theory After Modernism

Category

Art

Rabinovitch testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:55:50 +0000

Rabinovitch testimonial

Before we can participate in truth and the beautiful as aesthetic experience, Adi Da says, our emerging world culture needs to be transformed by the possibilities of sacred energy, the Light that runs through all things. It is a mystical view that runs through both Western and Eastern cultures, from the biblical call to “see with new eyes”, to St. Francis Assisi’s understanding of the natural world as expressing divine presence, to the Chinese scholar-artists’ perception of the formlessness in form, to the transformative spaces of Monet or Rothko. This intuitive stance provides hope for romantic and mystical artists, hope that the essence of their work will become manifest.

That Adi Da challenges our culture to return art to its original, sacred purpose without merely recreating a long-lost past makes Transcendental Realism a significant work, not only for artists but anyone who senses the limitations of contemporary culture and strives to create a more vivid way of being.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 14:55

"Adi Da challenges our culture to return art to its original, sacred purpose...

CELIA RABINOVICH, Ph.D.
Artist; Writer; Teacher; Author of Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros and the Occult in Modern Art

Category

Art

Ray Lynch testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:53:44 +0000

Ray Lynch testimonial

My relationship with Adi Da Samraj over more than 25 years has only confirmed His Realization and the Truth of his impeccable Teaching. He is much more than simply an inspiration for my music, but a living demonstration that perfect transcendence is actually possible. This is both a great relief and a great challenge. If you thirst for truth, here is a rare opportunity to drink.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 14:53

"If you thirst for truth, here is a rare opportunity to drink...

RAY LYNCH
Composer, Musician, and Platinum Recording Artist: Deep Breakfast and The Sky of Mind

Category

Art

Carierre testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:48:56 +0000

Carierre testimonial

This extraordinary collection of illuminating essays [in Not-Two Is Peace] offers a deep diagnosis of humanity’s predicament. The cure Adi Da prescribes, based on higher laws, is simultaneously radical, urgent, and straightforward. Adi Da’s is a uniquely authentic and compelling voice in this global age.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 14:48

"Extraordinary collection of illuminating essays...

ROLF CARIERRE
Former Official with UNICEF;
Senior Advisor to The Non-Violent Peace Force

Category

Spiritual

Kubler-Ross testimonial

Diane Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:47:08 +0000

Kubler-Ross testimonial

Easy Death is an exciting, stimulating, and thought-provoking book that adds immensely to the ever-increasing literature on the phenomena of life and death. But, more important, perhaps, it is a confirmation that a life filled with love instead of fear can lead to ultimately meaningful life and death. Thank you for this masterpiece.

Diane Bryan Tue, 10/02/2018 - 14:47

"Thank you for this masterpiece...

ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, M.D.
Author of On Death and Dying

Category

Spiritual