"It’s as though there’s another me under the tissue paper of my first Papier Froissé, who, since then, from there, sees the world, reflects, is moved by or laughs about the way I feel about art and all other biographic movements. My conversation with him - before there had only been my monologues - materialised one night, studded by the hoots of barn owls, thirty years after the first crumpling of paper for Papassian use; and I gained solace from it and a sort of meditated madness on how much leads to an artistic life spent like mine in the provinces, near stretches of water, earlier on that of Torre del Lago Puccini and then that of Bracciano. There you are, if you want to write about me and my biography, keep in mind this duo that has modulated night-time words, honouring, in its own way, the beginning".

This is what the painter said to me as we stood before the painting. And I accepted the challenge and made a biographic dialogue of it. Velinato is the presence under the crinkled tissue of the ovoid circle. Papasso is the painter who is intent on matters that link psychological elements with shrewd moves of the senses: under the studio roof, under the Roman sky, under his dream, who discovers the words of another him, a sharp interpreter. And scathing too, because he draws on phantom resources of the duo.

Claudio Di Scalzo

You may read the interesting biographical "Dialogue" between Papasso and Velinato, curated always by Di Scalzo and edited on the book "il tutto e il niente", ed. Cangemi, click and nice reading...(on PDF format)