Franck André Jamme: New Exercises at Meridian Gallery
Curated by Lawrence Rinder
The idiosyncratically unbroken texts as well as the disorienting interaction of text and mirror in these works stimulate the reader/viewer’s mind, fostering a condition of unusual concentration. Each text is a kind of philosophical instruction or “exercise”; like modern koans they exude qualities of impossibility, ephemeralness, and paradox.
Dhyāna: Contemporary anonymous Tantric drawings from Rajasthan
The Tantric drawings shown here—which are from the collection of poet Franck André Jamme—were made anonymously as an aid to meditative practice. The forms and colors in these works are not unique but rather highly conventional signs that have evolved for over a thousand years both to signify and to stimulate specifi c mental and spiritual experiences. Dhyāna is a Sanskrit word for deep meditation and as such could be used to describe not only this exhibition but the two concurrent shows as well.
Link: Meridian Gallery
Where / When
Dates:
535 Powell St.
San Francisco
Written on Feb. 20, 08
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