The Hats of Mr. Zenobe

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I first became aware of the story of Vahan Poladian, the inspiration for Mr. Zenobe, through my colleague Agnes Limbos to whom I had sent some rough notes on the new piece I was working on. One day I received a phone call from Agnes, who was on tour in Switzerland. She had just visited the Musee de L'Art Brut" "(Outsider Art Museum) in Lausanne and seen Vahan Poladian's remarka...(展開全部) I first became aware of the story of Vahan Poladian, the inspiration for Mr. Zenobe, through my colleague Agnes Limbos to whom I had sent some rough notes on the new piece I was working on. One day I received a phone call from Agnes, who was on tour in Switzerland. She had just visited the Musee de L'Art Brut" "(Outsider Art Museum) in Lausanne and seen Vahan Poladian's remarkable collection housed there. Strangely enough, his story dovetailed with many of the ideas that I had sent to Agnes just months earlier. I travelled to Lausanne myself, and spent an incredible day looking at Poladian's creations and screening the short film "Monsieur Poladian a St. Raphael." I was shocked and astonished by his story of exile, crumbled spirit, then spectacular transformation of creative ardour, verve, and passion. Vahan Poladian was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 1902. The Turks began systematically killing the Armenians in 1915, with a death toll that reached 1.5 million. Poladian's family fled the country. With the assistance of relatives, Poladian attempted to immigrate to the USA, but he was refused entry. He went instead to Cuba, where he worked as a travelling salesman. But this did not last long. Poladian was able to return to Europe when France accepted him as an immigrant. He settled in Paris, where he made contact with the expatriate Armenian community. Poladian married an Armenian woman who bore him a daughter, Viviane. With the onset of the Second World War, however, Poladian was conscripted by the French Army, and forced to leave his family. His unit was captured by t

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