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Al-Araby
It’s difficult to describe the phenomenological experience of coming across Algerian artist Rachid Koraïchi’s language. A gateway towards the invisible and divine, his art is as aesthetically breath-taking as it is spiritually moving, and there are notions that Koraïchi’s third US show at New York City’s Aicon Gallery, Le Chant de l’Ardent Désir, perfectly embodies in its presentation of four bodies of work threading on the function of calligraphy and symbolic philology. “Koraïchi’s paintings and sculptures are precise, geometric and hypnotically meditative” The title of the show is also the n…