exhibition in futur
Rachid Koraïchi
On the occasion of the publication of Habib Tengour's "désertée"
from September 27 au November 9 2024
Building bridges and links between poets and visual artists has always been at the heart of our gallery's work, and great poetic voices have been accompanied over the years by great artists whose engravings or paintings have harmonised with their words.
But the exhibition that opens at the end of September is almost of a different order, as the artist who accompanies the poet, Rachid Koraïchi – a major artist exhibited throughout the world and a poet himself – is one whose militant approach draws on the sources of an exceptional artistic and spiritual heritage. He uses a new visual lexicon, a very personal symbolism, colour sometimes, blue and gold most often, and an impressive array of materials and techniques.
His works, which are often monumental and often serial, have been shown on all continents and are held amid the largest public collections. As for his installations and memorial gardens, they testify to the vision and commitment of a artist who strives to build: a great humanist whose militant approach draws on the sources of an exceptional artistic and spiritual heritage.
A significant set of corten sculptures will be presented in the gallery space, while engravings and lithographs will be exhibited on the walls, in response to the original drawings made by the artist to accompany and enhance the collection "Désertée" by the poet Habib Tengour, which is released as part of the gallery's bibliophilic collection. It is a collaboration that is part of the long list of poets, from René Char to Mahmoud Darwish, whose texts Rachid Koraïchi has explored and with whom he has forged links.
A poet, writer and anthropologist, Habib Tengour expresses himself both in prose and poetry and develops a style of writing that oscillates between surrealism and the lyrico-epic voice of the Arab poetic tradition. He mixes times and places, illustrious names and his own biography. Habib Tengour is one of the great French-speaking Maghrebian authors. He has published nearly thirty books and received numerous prestigious awards. His work has been translated into German, English, Arabic, Italian and Dutch and he himself translates British and American Anglophone poets (he is the translator of the American-Luxembourgish Pierre Joris), as well as Arabic-language poets. In 2018, he launched the first Algerian collection entirely devoted to multilingual poetic creation (with a French version) "Poèmes du Monde".
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