Rachid Koraichi (Algerian, B. 1947) ,1986
Notes : From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such a lot.This lot offered for sale is subject to a 5% import duty on the importation value levied at the time of collection/shipment within the UAE.Rachid Koraichi's work is based around calligraphic-seeming symbols, which though of indecipherable meaning are highly expressive. This work combines Arabic characters with Chinese-style ideograms, and recalls talismanic shirts and panels used historically in the Islamic world. Koraichi works in a number of different media, sometimes embroidering his symbols in gold on silk banners, and at other times inscribing them on to ceramic or cutting them out of steel, to create a new universal language.
