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Haus Gallery 10.08.2023-09.09.2023

KADI TOMBAK

GEOMETRY OF CONCIOUSNESS

Kadi Tombak has brought together calligraphy and geometry in her art form. Her works are inspired by Hindu and Buddhist traditional wisdom, holy songs, and sacred architecture, presented in a contemporary visual interpretation. She writes texts in a circular movement on paper around an architectural symbol.

 

We can speak here about sacred art as functional art – works that can be used practically for reflection and have a mind-cleansing effect, like art in general. Consciously contemplating whatever visions for an extended period of time becomes, in a way, a part of meditation in itself, where the mind rests on a single experience of the present moment. The works invite us to rediscover the link between ancient teachings and today’s audience.

Kadi Tombak draws on her personal knowledge of sacred symbols and mantras to create her art. For seven years from 2014, she lived on the island of Bali, where she immersed herself in Hinduism and Buddhism, working with the high priests and holy men and women of Bali. 

Kadi’s works depict mantras, incantations, chanting circles, wheels on the walls, to which the viewer adds wind and momentum. She has taken a particular interest in the teachings of the Vedas and Buddha, and the symbols of inherited wisdom to make them visible to the world today. She is fascinated by the order and peace of sacred geometry and the eloquence of its symbols.

Kadi herself calls her works yantras, or sacral geometric discs. Yantra means a set of symbols that acts as an instrument with a specific function, which Kadi considers her works to be – an instrument that creates bridges between past and present experience to connect them across time.

In her ongoing theological studies, Kadi has been most interested in Advaita Vedanta belonging to the Vedic school of thought and the teachings of Buddha. In Bali, her particular area of research involved the priests’ means of communication between the visible and invisible worlds.  

The collection of works exhibited at Haus Gallery is a delicate handicraft, formed within the framework of the author’s own choosing, to emphasise the hand and thought that goes into the whole process. The works form a direct result of Kadi’s seven-year pilgrimage and commitment to Buddhist heritage, which encouraged her to bring sacral geometry as a geometry of consciousness into her creative expression, making it visible in a personalised way.

The exhibition is supported by: Klaasissepp and ArtSmart

Exhibition videos made by Nando Garcelli:

Hand Made And Manifesting

Sry Yantra Wheel 

Buddha Temple

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Solar Sri Yantra
Kadi Tombak Solar Sri Yantra 2022. Author's technique Lm 113 x 113 cm (framed) price 2 700
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple with a Red Lotus
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple with a Red Lotus 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900
(sold)Five Wisdom Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Wisdom Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 80 x 78 cm (framed)
Red Sri Yantra
Kadi Tombak Red Sri Yantra 2022. Author's technique Lm 113 x 113 cm (framed) price 2 700
Red Sri Yantra Wheel
Kadi Tombak Red Sri Yantra Wheel 2022. Author's technique Lm 36 x 36 cm (not framed) price 1 100
(sold)Solar Sri Yantra
Kadi Tombak Solar Sri Yantra 2023. Author's technique Lm 80 x 78 cm (framed)
(sold)Sri Yantra Red
Kadi Tombak Sri Yantra Red 2023. Author's technique Lm 80 x 80 cm (framed) price 1 900
Star, Chant
Kadi Tombak Star, Chant 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900
Chant
Kadi Tombak Chant 2020. Author's technique Lm 78 x 80 cm (framed) price 1 900
Divine Fingerprint
Kadi Tombak Divine Fingerprint 2022. Author's technique Lm 70 x 114 cm (framed)
(sold)Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 78 x 78 cm (framed) price 1 900
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 36 x 41 cm (framed) price 1 100
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 36 x 41 cm (framed) price 1 100
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 36 x 41 cm (framed) price 1 100
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2022. Author's technique Lm 36 x 36 cm (framed) price 1 100
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 36 x 41 cm (framed) price 1 100
Five Dhyani Buddha Temple
Kadi Tombak Five Dhyani Buddha Temple 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900
Temple of Om
Kadi Tombak Temple of Om 2023. Author's technique Lm 26 x 26 cm (framed) price 900