id:			384236
accession number:	2020.221
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.221
updated:		2022-06-08 09:02:17.051000

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
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creation date:			2018
creation date earliest:		2018
creation date latest:		2018
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:			© Rachid Koraïchi, Courtesy Aicon Gallery

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culture:	Algerian
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 x 49 x 2.9 cm (19 5/16 x 19 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
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edition of the work: 	Set 7 of 7

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Rachid Koraïchi: Les Sept Stations Célestes/The Seven Heavenly Stations</em>, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY ( September 20 – October 20, 2018).

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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: 
Each of these digitally carved alabaster tablets weighs about 35 pounds!

digital description: 
Rachid Koraïchi's <em>Les Septs Stations Célestes </em>(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).

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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:  p. 17
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