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In this catalog of Adi Da Samraj's collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2007, some of his most recent works are reproduced in stunning color. Adi Da Samraj's art conveys a profound spiritual message through the drama of visual form. That form can be figurative or purely abstract. It can be photographic or purely digital. It can be narrative?even humorous?or purely philosophical. It can be beautiful or it can be disorienting. All of his art is intended to assist the process of going beyond "ego," and discovering "reality itself, truth itself, and the beautiful itself." Achille Bonito Oliva, the chief curator writes: "Adi Da Samraj's two- and three-dimensional shapes are always concrete communicative realities, statements of a mental order that is never repressive or closed off, but always germinating and unpredictable. In all instances, shapes germinate and multiply with sudden offshoots that reveal the potential of a new geometric eroticism."