The magazine MAQ The magazine MAQ ART December 2018 | Page 82

If the concept of space and time are denied in his huge canvases, this is not so if we consider Shozo's art making as a whole, if we analyze not only the finished work, but also and above all, the whole process of creation.

One of the factors characterizing the artist's works is gesturality, the driving force and the ritualization in throwing bottles and buckets full of color against a defenseless object that can not defend itself, but only suffer: this object, the canvas, takes on a very symbolic meaning, symbolizes the unarmed humanity against the decisions of the powerful, against the barbarities of war.