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Tablet from Set 7 from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes

Tablet from Set 7 from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes

2018
(Algerian, b. 1947)
Algerian, 20th century
Alabaster
Overall: 49.5 x 49.5 x 3.2 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2020.221.b
© Rachid Koraïchi, Courtesy Aicon Gallery
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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

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).
  • 2018
    Collection of the artist
    by 2018
    (Aicon Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2020-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Aicon Gallery. Rachid Koraïchi: Les Sept Stations Céleste. New York, NY: Aicon Gallery, 2020 Reproduced: p. 17
  • Rachid Koraïchi: Les Sept Stations Célestes/The Seven Heavenly Stations, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY ( September 20 – October 20, 2018).
  • {{cite web|title=Tablet from Set 7 from the series Les Septs Stations Célestes|url=false|author=Rachid Koraïchi|year=2018|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.221.b