Music, Justice and Communication
by Vivienne Thaul Wechter,Ph.D.Director, Exhibition &Acquisitions at Fordham University- New-York
                  Enter a Gallery with the Bronze Sculptures by G. de Pass at once one is seduced by the sensuous glow, the light emitted from these polished surfaces. Soon seduction gives way to concentration as each work claims serious involvement.
                  Is de Pass the Existentialist, Surrealist, Renaissance Classicist, Expressionist? Is his work decorative, narrative, symbolic?
                  Immediately, then,he complexity of this profoundly imaginative work calls for reflective analysis.
                  Though a common denominator, call it style, or perhaps treatment of the material, distinguishes these sculptures, neverthelesseach work is distinctly individual. An inspired concept has been pushed to its final irreducible form, weather the theme is music or love, satire or sauciness.(...)
                  Contrast the tender fantasy of mother and child in "La Maternité" with the audaciousness in "la Féline" .Is the Cat a Woman or Woman a Cat? In, "le Mur de la Communication" the wall joins yet divides the two heads facing in opposite direction.Is an expression of world anger ? One cannot view these sculptures with a simple before-hand conception. The multiplicity of de Pass' Conceptions suggests a challenging daemon's force behind these inspirations.
                  Whatever the intent of the subject matter, the textures, the flow of melten metals, chiselled to sensuial forms or hard edged planes, call out the forbidden, "Touch". And just as in Greek bronzes yhat exchanged metal for stone, these bronzes have not ceased to be glyptic. The carving is there in the cascading forms in the concentric compositions and in the angular arrangements.
                  The viewer luxuriates in the gift of these sculptures - the artist's dreams that have been translated into bronzes whose overall virtuosity embraces each minute detail.(...)
                  Here is Art - as Art should be - that provokes but does not coerce. Its pleasure is sensual but encourages reflection and judgement...and leaves us with "Hasten Back".

Vivienne Thaul Wechter, Ph.D.
Director, Exhibitions & Acquisitions
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY- NEW-YORK.