“Always at the boundary between dreams and reality, his painting is patently multifaceted. His organic universes, which exist somewhere between the heavens and the sea, encourage both meditation and a kind of breaking free.”
Alain Poher
Former President Of The Senate Of France
“We know what it’s like to view the earth’s magical beauty from above. It’s one of the precious gifts that the conquest of the skies has given man. That same beauty can be found in economos’ painting.”
Jean-Cyril Spinetta
Air France
“I greatly admire the calm with which Economos navigates his ship through the whirlwinds and relentless waves of modern art.
He has remained steadfast at the wheel, steering in a straight line towards himself.”
Jean Cocteau
“A conceptual journey through a unique type of ‘pictorial writing’.”
Alain Pompidou
“He calls forth the world’s enigma as a theater where pain and color mix. He paints life itself.
In his prophetic work man does not appear but is rather conjured up; beyond the apocalypse lies the temptation to wait for eden.”
Yann Queffélec
Prix Goncourt
“The greek miracle is among the sources of light that flood his canvases in a way that makes the sky above his ships seem to be inhabited by merry gods who protect him.”
Jean Cocteau
“A painter of time and space whose diaphanous colors dance with intricate patterns of things both visible and invisible.”
Marcel Marceau
“A pictorial composer endowed with a capacity for listening and performing that make him the man of art whom we love, and who gets us to love what he loves.”
Alain Pompidou
“The deep and luminous colors harmonized by Gérard Economos transport us to a sometimes strange world endowed with extraordinary power and life.”
Simone Cino del Duca.
“Gérard Economos is earning an increasingly important place in american art.”
R. J. Hawkins
“In the celestial emptiness, economos moves with the serene balance of an adventurer exploring pictorial space. He creates beauty and with it life, extracting brightness in the process. He depicts the hope behind the jade green and sketches the dawn colored in blue nighttime-like skies. And he does it all this with the strange talent of a dream wizard.”
Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg
“He traps the infinite within the boundaries of his blue tones.”
Pierre Rey
“I listen to the music of the Gérard Economos’ paintings.”
Iannis Xenakis
“Economos’ paintings are forests of colored pencils where neither the colors nor the forests are ever the same. As in life, something is discovered every day, provided that one still has the capacity to be curious.”
Yves Navarre
“The quality of his drawing, the power of his composition and the warm and nuanced harmony of his colors are a pleasure for the eyes and for the spirit.”
Maurice Doublet
“From the day Jean Cocteau showed me the first works of Gérard Economos, his art has not ceased to improve, develop and assert its identity. Today we have the opportunity to discover the hidden side of his talent, the one that best reflects his discipline and way of thinking.
Gérard Economos’ painting made up of mystery, silence and boldness, enthralls us by offering a glimpse of perfection.”