Aicon Gallery is delighted to invite you to the V.I.P. Preview and Opening Reception for Love Side by Side with the Soul, the first major U.S. solo exhibition of Algerian born artist Rachid Koraïchi. Koraïchi was born in Ain Beida, Algeria in 1947 and now lives and works in Tunisia and France. Koraïchi's practice, routed in his ground-breaking interpretations of calligraphic modernism, extends across an impressive range of media, including ceramics, textiles, bronze sculptures and canvases; all of which will be on display in the current exhibition. Koraïchi won the prestigious Jameel Prize in 2011, was included in the in 47th and 49th Venice Biennale, Word into Art at the British Museum, 2006, and Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking at MOMA, 2006.