In the novel Albertine disparue by Marcel Proust the protagonist expresses his grief at his lover’s departure. No longer having her near him creates a great emptiness in him. The absence of little everyday things causes a sorrow that only time and forgetting can alleviate.

Bouzo produced a work we could describe as . His pictures are suffused with austere spaces of colour: paintings like dreams. His colourist technique is indebted to Rothko’s chromatic lyricism. He also absorbed other influences such as , and even

 Neo-Plasticism 

an art movement founded in Holland by Piet Mondrian in 1917. It was based on an analytic approach to painting, divested of superfluous elements and using geometric forms and pure colours to reduce visual language to its essentials.

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A common feature of his works is the presence of everyday elements, household items contrasting with the abstraction which dominates the rest of the picture. These objects acquire a central role which they do not have in everyday life. This makes them seem startling and paradoxical, a product of the artist’s sense of humour.

Bouzo began to collect all sorts of images that attracted his attention, cutting them out and pasting them in notebooks. Those images were later to become a source of inspiration, coinciding with his arrival in Madrid in 1988, when he began to introduce painted objects into his pictures. This work represents a transition in the use of these painted objects, since from this point onwards fragmentary images began to acquire a more obvious presence.

Grief, solitude, shock, the emptiness produced by the absence of a departed love, the painful memory of which invades the mind until time causes it to fade. Everyday elements, unnoticed in day-to-day life, but becoming the most sorely missed when they are not there.
This is what this painting shows through an extensive field of shades of black broken by a little window with a mortar. It represents the strength of memory, an object from day-to-day life which accentuates the emptiness of habit and of intimacy.