id: 394987 accession number: 2020.220.a share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.220.a updated: 2023-01-12 02:16:39.609000 Tablet from Set 3, from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes (The Seven Heavenly Stations), 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 (The Seven Heavenly Stations) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2018 creation date earliest: 2018 creation date latest: 2018 current location: 108A Sub-Saharan 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 title: Arts of Africa: Gallery Rotation (African art rotation) opening date: 2021-12-10T05:00:00 Arts of Africa: Gallery Rotation (African art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 10, 2021-July 2, 2023). --- 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: wall description: The paired alabaster tablets of Les Septs Stations Célestes contrast Arabic calligraphy (right) with Rachid Koraïchi’s unique visual language and drawings (left). Over many decades, Koraïchi has developed a personal “alphabet of memory,” blending Chinese, Sumerian, Hebrew, Tamazight (Amazigh), Tifinagh (Tuareg), and Arabic letterforms or symbols with numbers, codes, and drawings. These digitally sculpted tablets evoke historical Islamic architecture, especially Egypt’s gleaming “Alabaster Mosque” in Cairo, made from the same semiopaque stone. This set features excerpts from Lebanese-American writer and painter Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) on the subject of love. The word love repeats throughout, emphasizing its centrality. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Aicon Gallery. Rachid Koraïchi: Les Sept Stations Céleste. New York, NY: Aicon Gallery, 2020. page number: Reproduced: pp. 14-15. url: --- IMAGES