Christian de Vietri

Christian de Vietri is an internationally acclaimed visual artist known for his large-scale public sculptures and traditional sacred art. His artworks have been exhibited in museums worldwide, and permanently installed sculptures by de Vietri have been commissioned for urban locations in Australia, the United States, and China, including the iconic 100-ft-high sculpture titled Spanda at Elizabeth Quay in Perth. De Vietri graduated from the Columbia University MFA program in 2009 and subsequently was active in the New York art scene. Throughout his thirties, de Vietri’s life and work took on a deeper spiritual dimension, and he travelled the world studying and training with masters of Śākta–Śaiva Tantra and Śilpaśāstra, eventually receiving authorisation to teach others. His first published book, Trika Maṇḍala Prakāśa, is a decoding and illumination of the maṇḍalas described in Abhinavagupta’s 10th-century masterpiece, the Tantrāloka.