London’s October Gallery Hosts Sufi-Inspired Exhibition
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www.octobergallery.co.uk London’s October Gallery is hosting the Ancestral Memories exhibition by a Paris-based Algerian artist, Rachid Koraichi, in its third show in the Africa 05 season
The installation, which has been specially commission by the October Gallery discusses the universal questions of ancestry, family and culture. The installation consists of a monumental hand-embroidered textile, covered with signs, symbols and traditional sayings of the Sufi Brotherhoods. Born in Algeria in 1947, Rachid Koraïchi has for many years lived and worked in Paris, from where he has established himself as one of the leading Arab artists to achieve broad international recognition and acclaim. What is particularly impressive in Koraïchi's work is the wide variety of media in which he creates and exhibits his articulate and thought-provoking installations. These include fine mixes of ceramics, textiles, poetry, calligraphy, metalwork and paint.
A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in both Algiers and Paris, Koraïchi is the consummate contemporary artist, whose work, though anchored in the Sufi mystical tradition in which he was raised, effortlessly encompasses a contemporary style that communicates themes of universal relevance to a broad cosmopolitan audience. As well as having exhibited in the 47th and 49th Venice Biennales, his works are collected in; major institutions around the world, including the British Museum; the Smithsonian Institution; the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; the National Gallery, Amman; etc.
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