id:			394987
accession number:	2020.220.a
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.220.a
updated:		2022-01-04 18:13:34.061000

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)
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creation date:			2018
creation date earliest:		2018
creation date latest:		2018
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Algeria
technique:	Alabaster
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Stone
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CREATORS

* Rachid Koraïchi (Algerian, b. 1947)  - maker

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measurements: Overall: 49.5 x 49.5 x 3.2 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Arts of Africa: Gallery Rotation (African art rotation)
	opening date:   2021-12-10T05:00:00
	<i>Arts of Africa: Gallery Rotation (African art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 10, 2021-December 18, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of the artist
	date: 2018
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	(Aicon Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: by 2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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fun fact: 
Blending historical and high-tech art-making techniques, these tablets’ designs were first drawn, then carved with a digital router.

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wall description: 
The paired alabaster tablets of <em>Les Septs Stations Célestes </em>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 <em>love </em>repeats throughout, emphasizing its centrality.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Aicon Gallery. <em>Rachid Koraïchi: Les Sept Stations Céleste</em>. New York, NY: Aicon Gallery, 2020.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  pp. 14-15.
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