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If the Latin idiom is more commonly associated with writing —Emile Zola himself had it engraved on the mantel of his fireplace—, Mircea Cantor identifies himself in its original meaning: like the ancient Greek painter Apelles praised by Pliny the Elder, Mircea Cantor does not spend a day without drawing. Since his youth, he has been scribbling on entire notebooks and recording momentary impressions, creating rough sketches which are therefore completely representative of his whole body of work. Embodying his questions, his experiments and thus his sensibility, those drawings constitute a sort …