
Nima Sagharchi
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Provenance:
Property of a private collector, UK
Exhibited:
Meditation, Madrasah Ibn Youssef, Marrakesh, Morocco, 1997
"I have always wanted people to see and appreciate my work in a universal manner. By this, I mean the understanding of my work in terms of the symbols, signs, marks – even vibrations – which have always been the common language of mankind and of which many examples remain in the cave paintings and rock art that is our shared inheritance since the dawn of time. Such art is not difficult to read since the underlying language is easily decipherable to all. We read this 'writing' in the same way that the men and women who weave carpets read their symbols, or again, like tattoos, or the signs traced on pottery, all of which tell us so much about other civilizations.
I add some of my own offerings to the crucible of signs that already exist, in the hope of enlarging, in some small way, the great repertory of symbols present around the world." - Rachid Koraichi