All day De Pass walks the streets looking for colors in which to clothe his personages that night. All through the night, he will arrange and rearrange his "Goyesque" world, denuded, but weighted and heavy with meaning.
A mystic passion illuminates the center of his canvases, a mobile light that doesn't blind, but cuts out each silhouette, uncovering his image, or his desires.
An outstretched hand is more than an invitation. A dispute between girls of the evening becomes the Anguish of the Unknown. Two children stumble upon a couple intertwined. Did he paint them rooted to the spot, because he can't bear to tear them away from the sight ?
All through the night, round and around, De Pass will lead his truths lurking behind the forms, the forms hidden in the colors, and the colors vibrating in movement in a "Ronde Sacrée" in which he is the central flame.

Félix Vercel - 1971

Hervé Bazin gave me his harmful and precious friendship, there feelings were fulfilling his visits , worlds and analysis, being a wonderfully help.
The lithographs neighboring his poems "A la poursuite d'Iris", have been a tremendous opportunity for warm and fruitful meeting which still live on my memories.

Giacomo de Pass

"National Fine Art Museum"

Mr Patrick Amiot, Ambassador for France in Malte, Giacomo de Pass, Valérie Sergent and Dame Françoise Tempra, Art Historian