id: 384236 accession number: 2020.221 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.221 updated: 2023-01-12 02:12:46.960000 Set 7 from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes, 2018. Rachid Koraïchi (Algerian, b. 1947). Alabaster; overall: 49 x 49 x 2.9 cm (19 5/16 x 19 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2020.221 © Rachid Koraïchi, Courtesy Aicon Gallery title: Set 7 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: © Rachid Koraïchi, Courtesy Aicon Gallery --- culture: Algerian technique: Alabaster department: African Art collection: African Art type: Stone find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rachid Koraïchi (Algerian, b. 1947) - maker --- measurements: Overall: 49 x 49 x 2.9 cm (19 5/16 x 19 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: Set 7 of 7 support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Rachid Koraïchi: Les Sept Stations Célestes/The Seven Heavenly Stations, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY ( September 20 – October 20, 2018). --- 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: Each of these digitally carved alabaster tablets weighs about 35 pounds! 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. The right tablet is the beginning of the prose-poem “On Children” by Lebanese-American writer and painter Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931). wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Aicon Gallery. Rachid Koraïchi: Les Sept Stations Céleste. New York, NY: Aicon Gallery, 2020. page number: Reproduced: p. 17 url: --- IMAGES