OUTSIDER ART FAIR NEW YORK 2016
Galerie Hervé Perdriolle Booth 40
January 21 – 24, 2016
Metropolitan Pavilion 125W 18th Street New York

TANTRA PAINTINGS selected by Franck André Jamme
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While they invoke the highly symbolic cosmology of Hindu Tantra, these contemporary, anonymous paintings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of Trantric Art. The progeny of hand-written, illustrated religious treatises from the 17th century, copied over many generations, these paintings have evolved into a distinct visual lexicon used to awaken heightened states of consciousness.
Made in tempera, gouache, and watercolor on salvaged paper, they are pinned to the wall for use in private meditation. Possessing uncanny affinities with a range of 20th century abstract art, the paintings also have a vibratory beauty that inspires acute attention even in the uninitiated.
True to the tantric spirit, it seems that the precise meaning and symbolism of the designs is not fixed. However, some general guidelines were codified long ago and transcend this specific tradition, and so are readily recognizable: for example, ovoids represent linga (hence Shiva), spirals give a form to energy, any set of three can depict the three gunas, and the colour blue symbolizes the pure sky of consciousness which contains all phenomena and experience.
From Tantra Song by Franck André Jamme Publisher Siglio Los Angeles 2011

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VYAKUL (1930-2000) works selected by Franck André Jamme
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Vyakul (meaning « the excited one » in sanskrit) was born in 1930, in a village of Rajasthan, India. His family was brahmanee and moved soon to Jaipur, the nearby capital town of the State. He begins painting very young. He is then mainly enticed by colors.
Still very young, he begins collecting worship or magical devices, and all sorts of « curios ». He shares his life between this two callings. One is overt, makes him known and acknowledged through the whole country: he soon sets up a museum to display it, which will grow into the biggest private institution. The other calling is clandestine: he paints since his earliest years, this is his hidden passion. His first works in the « tantra-folk » style and then, in the early sixties, he finds his own way.
Strange artist. To begin with, he has no studio. Works anywhere but always safe from observation. Secretly. And he doesn’t paint daily, far from it, a few times each year and for a few days, when it really « overruns » him, he says, when it « overwhelms » him ; when his eyes « catch fire ». And he knows nothing of paint-shops. He makes his colors himself, grinds plants, stones, clay, cow’s urine, coal, glues, flowers and powders.
From Notes about Vyakul by Franck André Jamme, 1993

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JEAN-DANIEL ALLANCHE (BORN MARCH 7, 1940 IN SFAX, TUNISIA ; DIED AUGUST 11, 2015 IN PARIS)
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Jean-Daniel Allanche painted and repainted endlessly the apartment, walls, floor, ceiling, that he bought in 1975, rue des Ciseaux in Saint-Germain des prés, Paris. His paintings are complemented by a vast accumulation of collected objects. African and Indian sculptures, souvenirs of trips and places of living. Objects of all kinds similar to a collection of modest art accumulating, agglomerating under the stairs, in every nook and cranny of the apartment. Jda, as he liked to sign some of his elucubrations (Latin elucubror : work carefully) has, enigmatically, refused to show his work, his space of expression. Professor of Physics and researcher, he has left behind him, beyond him, this complete and enigmatic work. A major work of art similar to an installation, a curiosity cabinet, accompanied by a few gouaches and paintings as so many sketches of the art on his wall.

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