Tantra Song by Franck Andre Jamme
Saganur, 2001, 9 1/4
From a recent interview with Franck Andre Jamme for the Paris Review‘s blog:
It could be a cult classic: the debut edition of Siglio Press’s Tantra Song one of the only books to survey the elusive tradition of abstract Tantric painting from Rajasthan, India sold out in a swift six weeks. Rendered by hand on found pieces of paper and used primarily for meditation, the works depict deities as geometric, vividly hued shapes and mark a clear departure from Tantric art’s better-known figurative styles. They also resonate uncannily with lineages of twentieth-century art—from the Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism to Minimalism”as well as with much painting today. Rarely have the ancient and the modern come together so fluidly.
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