"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
LA STAMPA DELLA SERA — Tuesday 5 May 1936 — Year XIV.
WHERE THE LAST ACT OF THE CONFLICT IS PLAYED OUT.
The map we publish gives a complete picture of that central part of the Ethiopian highland where the heroism of the Legionaries has carried the flags of Italy. Here the last act of the enterprise willed and achieved by the Duce is being played out. Here our soldiers have given to the Homeland, with the sacrifice of blood and overcoming every difficulty, that «place in the sun» that had been denied her. In this land, where they have planted their banner and laid down the sword, they will take up the spade for the work of colonisation that is the shining tradition of Rome.
(Map of the Ethiopian highland: Begemder, Wollo, Aussa, Harar, Addis Ababa, Dessie, Somalia, British Somaliland, Djibouti.)
Serial of La Stampa della Sera: THE ENEMY WOMAN, a novel by Gastone Ricciardi.
