1975
Dan Haulica, Hard Rigor, Secolul 20, #4, Bucharest:
..."mathematical elaborations of forms by Serban Epure homologated by outstanding foreign commentators as " fundamental research" deriving from certain forerunners like Pierro dela Francesca, for instance."...
1974
• Georges Charbonnier, L'ordinateur au service de l'art, Connaissance des Arts, #264, Paris:
..."Final conclusion: the progress in handling and creating programs is constant. So far a genuine suppleness is being conferred to the instrument. The results obtained by the Romanian researcher Serban Epure are most significant in this respect." page 73.
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• Iulian Mereuta, Romanian Art Throughout the World, Arta #9, Bucharest.
• Ruxandra Garofeanu, The 8th Bienniale of Paris, Arta #6, Bucharest.
• Horia Horsia, Profile-Serban Epure, Flacara, June, Bucharest.
• George Cosma, The Year XXX, Arta #5, Bucharest.
1973
• Jacques Lonchampt, Art and Computer at Sigma of Bordeaux, Le Monde, Nov. 30, Paris:
.."Alongside the fundamental works like Serban's Epure analysis of marked outlines which call in mind Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings books... One can see here the point of contact of an artistic idea in the programmed intersection of two notions."
1971
• Constantin Prut, The 7th Biennial of Paris, Contemporanul, Sept. 3, Bucharest.
• Serban Epure - Profile, the catalogue of the 25th Edinburgh International Jubilee Festival at the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh:
"There is the cybernetic 2 and 3 dimensional work by Serban Epure which will form, themselves into a little room for the exhibition - a complete environment with original music by Aurel Stroe. Epure is the rare bird, the mathematician and the poet in one."
• Radu Varia, At Edinburgh"the Romanian Week, Contemporanul, Sept. 3, Bucharest.
• Cordelia Oliver, Grass Roots Genius, The Scotsman, Sept. 1 Edinburgh.
• Edward Gage, Demarco stages rewarding and virile folk art, The Scotsman, Aug. 30, Edinbourgh.
..."There are also some clever improvisations with folded and... striped paper by Serban Epure"...
• Cordelia Oliver, Contemporary Romanian Art, The Scotsman, Aug. 23, Edinburgh:
..."Epure's more or less infinitely variable program of folding colored striped paper - "the more you fold, the more the form of the band changes, the colored stripes are destroyed and recomposed" - offers a way of exploring form that is both universally simple and yet capable of yielding complex and fascinating results."
• Radu Varia, Letter from Bucharest, Studio International, July/August London:
..."Another artist, Serban Epure from Bucharest, has studied since 1969 the problem of aesthetic message and the cybernetic character of the relationship between man and a work of art. At the same time he has composed an aesthetic structure (S-Band) capable of suggesting a cybernetic interaction brought about by handling it. The bands can be imagined as small machines for inventing art forms, but which invent more the greater the interest of the person working with them. This interest increases in turn with the exploration of the band."...
• Dominique Guerst, Romania, Opus International # 23, Paris.
..."Serban Epure se perd dans les metamorphoses d'un petit rectangle qu'il deplie, deforme, transforme. Son materiel: un carton, 4 cotes, 2 faces, et une infinite de pliures possibles, infini limite a trouver. Ses realisations: de grandes toiles, projections de ses maquettes de depart, propositions abstraites, un seul ordre inlassablement decompose, recompose."...
• Georges Boudaille, The Vanguard in Romania, Lettres Francaises, # 2369, Paris:
..."Autre rencontre, celle de Serban Epure qui est venu m'expliquer les possibilites infinie de ses pliages. Pour un pli, il y a trois positions du triangle (voir illustration). Lorsque le nombre d'elements croit, le nombre des combinaisons possible devient aleatoire. Il s'agit la, evidemment, de recherches purement theoriques que Epure visualise par un jeu de bandes colorees, en presentant un certain nombre de combinaisons sous des pochettes plastiques soudees en une bande qui descend du mur et parcourt le sol. Recherche formelle de mathematicien dont les applications plastiques sont evidentes"...
• Adrian Rogoz, Arta Programativã, Stiinta si Technica, June, Bucharest.
• Octavian Barbosa, Vanguard and Anachronism, Contemporanul, Apr.16, Bucharest.