Tantra Song – Tantric Painting from Rajasthan

This assortment of uncommon, summary Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet Franck André Jamme came across a small catalogue of Tantric artwork at a Paris bookseller’s stall. The quantity included writings by Octavio Paz and Henri Michaux, and Jamme turned fascinated by the pictures’ affinity with trendy artwork and poetry. He learn voraciously and even journeyed to India, looking in useless for Tantric practitioners, till a bus accident on the highway to Jaipur despatched him residence to France with critical accidents. When he returned a number of years later, he met a soothsayer who proclaimed that Jamme had now paid adequate tribute to the goddess Shakti and required him to take a vow: he should go to the tantrikas alone or solely within the firm of a beloved one. Since then, Jamme has gained extraordinary entry to very non-public communities of adepts and their intensely stunning works. These up to date, nameless drawings from Rajasthan are not like the extra acquainted strands of Tantric artwork–the geometric yantras, or erotic illustrations of the Kama Sutra. The progeny of seventeenth-century illustrated non secular treatises, these drawings have advanced into a definite visible lexicon designed to awaken heightened states of consciousness and are imbued with particular non secular meanings (e.g. spirals and arrows for power, an inverted triangle for Shakti). A revelatory quantity on this occluded style of Indian artwork, Tantra Tune is a convergence of east and west, the non secular and the aesthetic, the traditional and the trendy.
Franck André Jamme is the creator of greater than a dozen volumes of poetry. His translated workds (by John Ashbery, Charles Borkuis, David Kelley and others) embrace New Workouts, One other Silent Assault, The Recitation of Forgetting and Extracts of the Lifetime of a Beetle. He has collaborated on books with a lot of artists together with Philippe Favier, Suzan Frecon, Acharya Vyakul and Hanns Schimansk. A specialist in Artwork Brut, Tantric and tribal artwork of India, he has participated in exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Beaux-Artwork de Paris and The Drawing Middle, amongst others.