id: 394987 accession number: 2020.220.a share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.220.a updated: 2020-11-25 10:00:46.197000 Tablet from Set 3 from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes, 2018. Rachid Koraïchi (Algerian, b. 1947). Alabaster; overall: 49.5 x 49.5 x 3.2 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2020.220.a title: Tablet from Set 3 from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2018 creation date earliest: 2018 creation date latest: 2018 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Algeria technique: Alabaster department: African Art collection: African Art type: Stone find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rachid Koraïchi (Algerian, b. 1947) - maker --- measurements: Overall: 49.5 x 49.5 x 3.2 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Collection of the artist date: 2018 footnotes: citations: (Aicon Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: by 2018 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Blending historical and high-tech art-making techniques, these tablets’ designs were first drawn, then carved with a digital router. digital description: Rachid Koraïchi's Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations) pairs two stone tablets. The right bears text, while the left combines text, drawings, and elements drawn from the artist’s personal lexicon. His unique visual language blends Chinese, Sumerian, Hebrew, and Arabic letterforms with numbers, codes, and drawings. Their calligraphy recalls manuscript pages, while their material evokes Middle Eastern and Swahili coast tombstones. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES