Zinoview Cendrars. Deux légionnaires dans la Grande guerre. Regards croisés d'un peintre et d'un écrivain. Philosophie ou les représentation des valets

ou les représentation des valets de l'armée romaine mais aussi l'ensemble des contraintes faites aux corps ou que les corps exercent pour entrer en communication avec leur entourage : le corps-à-corps apollinien

at the crossroads of the Western Desert: new perspectives on the establishment of the Roman army in the Egyptian desert

The exhibition presents these two aspects of his work

Maria Teresa Giannotta

Zinoview Cendrars. Deux légionnaires dans la Grande guerre. Regards croisés d'un peintre et d'un écrivain. Philosophie ou les représentation des valetsOn July 29, 1914, Blaise Cendrars, a Swiss born poet, wrote an appeal that appeared in Parisian newspapers, calling on all foreigners who were friends of France to enlist for the duration of the war. On August 24, Alexandre Zinoview, a Russian painter who had been living in France since 1909, volunteered. Both members of the Foreign Legion, their experiences aligned, and in October 1915, on the Champagne front, their destinies crossed at the Navarin