Adi Da Samraj: Transcendental Realism

The Image-Art of Egoless Coincidence with Reality Itself

The Dawn Horse Press, 2010 expanded edition (2008)

Amazon.com

Back Cover:

Right and true art egolessly Coincides with Reality (Itself), Truth (Itself), and The Beautiful (Itself).

Adi Da Samraj

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.

Donald Kuspit

Critic, Professor of Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook

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”.

Achille Bonito Oliva

Critic, Historian, past Director of the Venice Biennale

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.

Celia Rabinovitch

Professor, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Author, Surrealism and the Sacred

[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