The contemporary Algerian painter Rachid Koraïchi was born in 1947 in Aïn Beida, in Algeria. He graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Algiers; in 1970, he left Algeria to join the Ecole des arts décoratifs in Paris from which he also graduated. He also studied at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and obtained a master's degree at the Institut d'urbanisme de l'Académie de Paris.
Rachid Koraïchi's family links him to a great spiritual and...

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  Biography of Rachid Koraïchi

  The contemporary Algerian painter Rachid Koraïchi was born in 1947 in Aïn Beida, in Algeria. He graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Algiers; in 1970, he left Algeria to join the Ecole des arts décoratifs in Paris from which he also graduated. He also studied at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and obtained a master's degree at the Institut d'urbanisme de l'Académie de Paris.
  Rachid Koraïchi's family links him to a great spiritual and cultural tradition: Sufism.
  Imbued with this culture, Rachid Koraïchi became interested at a very young age in ancient manuscripts and their graphics, as well as in the rock paintings of the Tassili.
  He worked notably with Karel Appel. His friends poets and writers have accompanied him in his research on signs and he has put into images many of their works (Nancy Houston, Salah Stétié, Sylvie Germain, Etel Adnan, Anne Rothschild, Bernard Perroy, etc). Rachid Koraïchi was exhibited in 2008 at the Rencontres d'Arles for his work with Ferrante Ferranti.
  
  Rachid Koraïchi works on silk, creates tapestries, paints on parchment, works with clay, kaolin, engraving, uses steel or stone. He does not consider himself a calligrapher, but rather a visual artist who stands between tradition and innovation: while drawing from the cultural background of his childhood bathed by an important artistic and spiritual heritage, Rachid Koraïchi finds his own style and his own "writing" to describe life in its realities, its beauties and the transcendent dimension that underlies it. Attached to symbolism, he recurrently uses the number seven in his work, as well as blue, gold and a multitude of figures (moon, round, square, stars...). His works are imbued with both depth and poetry.
  Rachid Koraïchi is an artist militant for peace between peoples and different spiritual traditions. As Islam recognizes and integrates the traditions of the Book that preceded it, the artist integrates the united dimension of these traditions into his works, thus insisting that they cannot be separated.
  Since the middle of the 1970s, and thus for more than fifty years, Rachid Koraïchi's work has frequently been shown in solo or group exhibitions, in France but also in many countries throughout the world.
  The artist has been living for many years between Paris and the Medina of Tunis. He frequently travels to Algeria, Egypt... He is present in many museums.
  Rachid Koraïchi is an artist who unites, reunites cultures, men, spiritual traditions, forms in the quest for meaning. This artist of the link, by linking art to the spiritual, by not being interested in art for art's sake, gives art, once again, its full role as a mediator.
  

  

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