"Tearing up a daily newspaper is the only way to free oneself, at a stroke, from thieves, murderers, swindlers, apostles and catastrophes"… This quotation from the poet Guido Ceronetti fits Zakamoto's works perfectly: he manages to transform dramatic headlines, generally set in huge type, into visions full of humour, capable of drawing a smile from us and at times a real laugh.
Introduction by F-Xavier Bernard,to the catalogue of exposition MEDIAMENTE FALSO by M.Zakamoto.
Artwork printed and mounted in an A3-format passepartout
GAZZETTA DEL POPOLO — Morning Edition. One hundred and eighty-first day of the economic siege. Saturday 16 May 1936 — Year XIV.
THE DUCE'S WARNING TO EUROPE. A tightening of economic sanctions would mean the redrawing of the map of Europe.
AUSTRIA RECOGNISES THE ANNEXATION OF ETHIOPIA. An outcry against the sanctions.
The Duce's interview with «Le Matin». Paris, 15 May, night. Le Matin publishes an interview with Mussolini. «No one in the world — the Duce declared — can doubt that the Italian people turns towards peace, but that it needs, in order to complete it, to be able to resume its activities».
Mussolini, Hitler and the sanctions. A realistic call from an Englishman to the English. The Austrian recognition. Life resumes. In Addis Ababa, devastated by the barbarians.
