O calitate rară, de benedictin, are prietenul nostru, care a tot editat la cărți, și le-a citit și răscitit pân-a ajuns să le viseze cu ochii deschiși, cu ochii lui de artist pictor, cu care vede colorat și pe-ntuneric. Și le-a ilustrat, adică le-a dat chip, le-a arătat și cititorului leneș din zilele noastre, care nu buchisește altceva decât ce scrie-n dedicația autorului, uitând până și titlul cărții. Pe unele dintre acestea pot să spun că prietenul Gabriel Stan le-a rescris în forme colorate. Dar aceasta este o îndeletnicire filosofică a lui ce apare în pictura sa.

      A filosofa, zicea și Hegel, înseamnă a te pierde pe tine și a te dărui Obiectului,

a-l lăsa pe el să vorbească sau să scrie, dacă vrei să-i rămână gândurile. Și chiar mai mult, în maniera prietenului Gabriel, să-l zugrăvești așa cum este dinclo de aparenţe, să-l faci să se arate pe pânză, pe hârtie, pe pagină sau pe copertă. Dar nu ca poză sau fotografie, adică nu așa cum este, ci cum ar trebui să fie. Dacă-i lucru să fie ce este, adică esență, cum se zice la carte, iar dacă-i om să fie cine este, respectiv haecceitate, cu toate că acestea nu se văd, fiind doar gânduri.

         Being really skilled in technique and having a taste for light, Stan throws his colors on the canvas with virtuosity, making up an almost fantastic figurative pattern, rich in symbols. His knowlegde flirts, in some works, with hiper-realism. But Stan’s painting, is first of all, a view of the world, the world his very painting charges of and with energy and sensitiveness. There is an explosive something in his amazing way of painting Mount Saint Michael or Saint Malo - “two places that impressed him when he visited Bretagne. He was equally interested by the Breton women’s caps.”

        Gabriel Stan, maybe the most talented and representative artist in Romania, was presented in the 1992 September-October issue of Manhatan Arts... Stan is such a prolific artist that his ideas and work are in a perpetual evolution. His painting reflects his deepening in mathematics, mythology, astronomy, physics and religion.

        It was a pleasure to look at the works of Gabriel Stan time and time again. He is a rare artist full of passion and firm belief. It is empowering to see these characteristics combined with a great talent in a contemporary artist. I am really thrilled by the printing of Gabriel’s works in “Manhattan Arts”.

        THE ROMANIAN ARTIST OF THE ‘90 GABRIEL STAN ENTERS THE DEPTHS OF THE SPIRIT
Gabriel Stan, a Roumanian artist, has formulated a highly unique methodology. Through his paintings, he attempts to explain different phenomena from various points of  view
physics, mathematics, astrology, mythology and religion. He leads the viewer beyond the sense of conventional space and time. But before Mr. Stan can even begin painting, he must delve into the realm of his studies. The inventiveness of his techniques cerebral and tactile is the vehicle for his personal expression. In the “Primordial Week” series, Mr. Stan depicts each day as independent worlds which we have access to in our sleep. The series are the days of the week represented in diptych form one painting for day, the other for night. The week is composed of seven days and is explained by mathematics. Each day is ruled by different planet. Anyone can commemorate in their subconscious the seven cosmic universes which exist simultaneously. Thursday is the strong day a day of fi re vivid and red. For Mr. Stan, Thursday is, “The fourth dimension universe. We perceive it in our dreams.” In Thursday, the two paintings are named Dance of fi re and Day of Jupiter. The magic of the paintings lies in its optical effects. It is a special mode of sensation. The two fi gures in Day of Jupiter, are caught in a rainy torrent of fl amehued paint. The single fi gure in The Dance of Fire is a whirling dervish, suspended in midair. There is mystery, isolation and esoteric symbolism in these figures. The paint 28 is handled viscously, as if poured. The paintings have the visceral impact of a Francis Bacon.