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"The Anthology of the Romanian Artists in the West". by Ionel Jianou, Gabriela Carp, Ana Maria Covrig, Lionel Scanteye, 1986. Publisher: The American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

p.73, Sherban Epuré's  artist profile.


... "An engrossing problem in present-day art is how to express the mutation of technological invention to artistic creation, that is: how to use the most advanced discoveries in science and technology in order to transfigure them into artistic language by confering uppon them a spiritual dimension. Sherban Epuré has dedicated himself to this problem, and his research has led to results that open new perspectives for enriching the plastic vocabulary.

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... In order to understand the results obtained by applying these rules and principles, let us consider the two paintings reproduced here: "Saadi the poet of Shiraz" and "Baaiba, a form achieved by mathematical procedures". The first has the grace of a Persian miniature, and the grill of geometrical lines in the background remains visible in oder to recall the scientific processes which created the image. The distance, which the picture assumes in relation to the rigidity often attributed to creation using mathematics in modern art is obtained by the pictorial style in which the geometrical elements have been painted, the free choice of colors ( even if they indicate the different stages in construction), and especially the freely elaborated compostition. Cybernetics bring in the morphological elements and surroundings, but the sintax, the phrase, remains free and suggests feeling. The other reproduction is more graphic, and the mysterious poetry suggested by the figure in the dark recalls certain Indian figures in a waiting attitude at night. Due to his sound scientific and philosophical training, his gift as a painter and his determination, Sherban Epuré is proeminent in the fields of research aiming to transpose technological invention into artistic creation"...

Ionel Jianou