"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 — Year 90, No. 296. Morning Edition. «L'Italiano». Sunday 12 December 1937 — Year XVI of the Empire. Italy, Empire, Colonies, 30 cents. Editorial and administrative offices: Turin, Corso Valdocco 2.
THE GRAND COUNCIL ACCLAIMS the Duce's proposal for Italy's immediate withdrawal from the League.
The Leader exhorts the people from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia. «We do not intend to indulge in phrases aimed at a display of peace when the most muffled hostility is systematically perceived; but the democracies leave us perfectly indifferent».
The historic decision. Rome, 11 December, night. The Grand Council of Fascism, under the presidency of the Duce, held an extraordinary meeting on 11 December, Year XVI of the Fascist Era, at 10 p.m. in Palazzo Venezia.
