Education  arrow

• Courses at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

• Private fine art studies. Very often guided by C. C. Constantinescu and H. H. Catargi. arrow

• I. Ranghetz Institute for Radio and Television, Bucharest, Romania.

• Polytechnic Institute, Electronics and Telecommunications, Bucharest, Romania.

 

Work, Group Exhibitions

 

2008

•"Imaging by Numbers. A historical view of the Computer Print", the Mary & Leigh Block Museum. Curator Debora Wood and Paul Hertz.

• January 18-April 6 2008.

2007

• The 1st Asia SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show in Hong Kong. June to July.

• June 2--10 2007, Hong Kong Cyberport.
• June 15--20, 2007 City University of Hong Kong.
• June 22--28, 2007 Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Tsing Yi.
• June 29--July 22, 2007 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (t.b.c).
• July 24--29, 2007 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre-HK Game Fair 2007.

2006

Siggraph, the 33nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, the Art Gallery.

2005-2007

The Siggraph Traveling Art Show.

2005

Siggraph, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, the Art Gallery, Los Angeles, August.

2004

• The Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, April 20--May 21 and June 2--12.

• Millennium Art Museum in Beijing, China. "The Millennium Dialogue", the First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium.

2002 - 2003

Recent Works: Meta-Phorms: new concepts and Flash animation. New experiments with S-Bands.

2001

• Ninth Annual New York Digital Salon.

• Gijon, Malaga, Valladolid, Spain.

• Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.

2000

• Eight Annual New York Digital Salon.

• Cultural Center, Malaga, Spain.

• Palacio de Santa Cruz, Valladolid, Spain.

• Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.

1999

Seventh Annual New York Digital Salon.

1998

Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.

1997

Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon.

1996

• Fourth Annual New York Digital Salon.

• “IN and OUT of THE BOX”, the NEXUS Foundation for Today‘s Art, celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first computer ENIAC, Philadelphia, February 2--24.

• SILICON Gallery, celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first computer ENIAC, Philadelphia, May 3--27.

1995

Third Annual New York Digital Salon.

1994

Delfina Studios, London, England, Artist residency.

1992

“Computer for Artists” New York, June 18--19.

1991

”The Man’s Legend“ One painting--20 panels, 108 x 7.5 ft / 32 x 2.3 m., acrylic on canvas.

1990

”The Hard Copy“, Grove Gallery University of San Diego, CA, January 4--February3.

1989

”Imagine Tokyo ’89“, Sogetsu Kaikan Konica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

1988

• ”Imagine“ - Imaging Sciences Offsite, Apple Computer, Newport Beach, CA.

• ”Imagine“, Macintosh Art, The Computer Museum, Boston, Massachusetts.

1987

5 works in the Pepsico Corporate Headquarters collection.

1985

5 paper sculptures, Tiffany, New York.

1982

Museum of Modern Art, New York, S-Band-paper sculpture, 1982--1992.

1980

Emigrates to USA, settles in New York.

1979

• Avant-garde ballet costumes, Bucharest, Romania.

• 60 sq.m. Mosaic Mural, Turnu Magurele, Romania.

1978

“The Study”, The Art Museum of Timisoara, Romania, April--May.

1976

“Art and Nature”, The New Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, March--April.

1975

“The Body”, University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania.

1974

Romanian Modern Art, Novji Sad, Yugoslavia, November.

1973

• The 9th Sigma Festival at the Gallery of Fine Arts, Bordeaux, France, November 16--24.

• The 8th Youth Biennial of Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France, September 15--October 21.

• The Third Fine Art Competition, Platres, Cyprus, April.

• “The Artist and His Universe”, Galatzi Art Museum, Romania.

• “The Landscape”, The New Gallery Bucharest, Romania.

• “Constructivism”, the Cycle “Attitudes”, Studio35 Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.

1972

“The Drawing”, the Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.

1971

• The 25th Edinburgh International Jubilee Festival at the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, August 23--September 11.

• The 7th Youth Biennial of Paris, Parc Floral, Paris, France, September--October.

• S-Bands, 35 mm color movie, ”Al. Sahia“ Studios, Romania.

1970

Contemporary Romanian Art,

• Beirut, Lebanon.
• Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Torino, Italy, May 16--31.

1969

Contemporary Romanian Art,

• Torino Italy.
• Cologne and Lüdensheid, Germany, October 1--8.

1968

• “Five Painters”, Amphora Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.

 

Personal Exhibitions

 

2009

THE NEW YORK DIGITAL SALON PRESENTS SHERBAN EPURÉ: “S-BANDS” AN EXHIBITION OF ANALOG AND DIGITAL ART THAT SPANS 40 YEARS OF CREATIVE EXPLORATION
June 22 -July 12, 2009. MFA Computer Art Department Gallery, School of Visual Arst, New York.

2000

Large scale digital work, Etensity Headquarters, SOHO, New York, January 2000.

1996

Large scale digital work, SILICON Gallery, Philadelphia, May--June.

1994

Delfina Studios, London, England, Open Studio.

1993

Virginia Center for Creative Arts, May.

1987--1992
5 works in the Pepsico Corporate Headquarters collection.

1985
5 paper sculptures, Tiffany, New York.

1976

Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, December.

1974

”Painting and Cybernetics“, Installation and extensive one man show at The New Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, April.

1970

The Amphora Gallery Bucharest, Romania, February.

1969

The Youth Athenaeum, Bucharest. Romania.

1967

The Alliance of the Fine Artists, Bucharest, Romania, First one man show.

 

Awards

1994

The “Ionel Jianou” Special Distinction for the Advancements of Creative Arts, The Romanian-American Academy.

1973

Fine Art Competition Platres, Cyprus.

1971

Youth Award of the Union of the Romanian Fine Artists, Bucharest.

 

Bibliography

2006

• Bruce Wands, Art in the Digital Age, (Thames & Hudson, UK), pp. 10 & 33.

2000

• Who’s Who in America, Romanians in America, (Montreal, Canada, Daway Publications).

• Leonardo vol.33, #5, (the MIT Press).

1999

• Leonardo vol.32, #5, (the MIT Press).

1997

• Kirsten Solberg "Critical note", the Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon.

• Leonardo, vol.30, #5, (the MIT Press).

1996

• Leonardo, vol.29, #5, (the MIT Press).

• Edward Sozanski "The Galleries’ Review", The Philadelphia Inquirer, (Philadelphia, February 16).

1995

Leonardo, vol.28, #5, (the MIT Press).

1990

Click, the brightest in computer generated illustrations, (Cincinnati, OH, North Light Books).

1989

• Louisa Simone “Artistic Software”, How Magazine, ( NY, January).

• Mariel Garza ”Electronics, oil paint and art“, Mac Week, (May 23).

1988

• Verbum Magazine, "Gallery", (San Diego, CA, July).

• How Magazine, (NY, July).

• Step by Step Graphics, (March--April).

1987

Ionel Jianou ”Romanian Artists in the West“, Artist presentation, (USA and Paris, France, the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences).

1975

Dan Haulica ”Hard Rigor“, Secolul XX, #4, (Bucharest, Romania).

1974

• Georges Charbonnier ”L’ordinateur au service de l’art“, Connaissance des Arts, #264, (Paris, France).

• Iulian Mereuta ”Romanian Art Throughout the World“, Arta Plastica #9,-(Bucharest, Romania).

• Ruxandra Garofeanu ”The 8th Biennial of Paris“, Arta PLastica #6, (Bucharest, Romania).

• Horia Horsia ”Profile-Sherban Epuré“, Flacara, (Bucharest, June).

• George Cosma ”The Year XXX“, Arta Plastica #5, (Bucharest, Romania).

1973

Jacques Lonchampt “Art and Computer at Sigma of Bordeaux”, Le Monde, (Paris, November 30).

1971

• Constantin Prut “The 7th Biennial of Paris”, Contemporanul, (Bucharest, Romania, September 3).

• Serban Epuré Profile, the catalogue of the 25th Edinburgh International Jubilee Festival at the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh.

• Radu Varia “At Edinburgh.–the Romanian Week”, in Contemporanul, (Bucharest, Romania, September 3).

• Cordelia Oliver “Grass Roots Genius”, The Scotsman, (Edinburgh., UK., September 1).

• Edward Gage “Demarco stages rewarding and virile folk art”, The Scotsman, (Edinburgh., Au. 30).

• Cordelia Oliver “Contemporary Romanian Art”, The Scotsman, (Edinburgh., August 23).

• Radu Varia “Letter from Bucharest”, Studio International, (London, July--August).

• Dominique Guerst ”Romania“, Opus International # 23, (Paris, France)

• Georges Boudaille “The Vanguard in Romania”, Lettres Francaises, # 2369, (Paris).

• Adrian Rogoz “Arta Programativã”, Stiinta si Tehnica, (Bucharest, June).

• Octavian Barbosa “Vanguard and Anachronism”, Contemporanul, (Bucharest, April 16).

1970

• Cristina Anastasiu “Two Young Exhibitors”, in Romania Liberã, (Bucharest, March 3).

• Octavian Barbosa “Sherban Epuré - Diet Sayler”, Contemporanul, (Bucharest, Romania, February 20).

1967-1970

Various articles by Upcoming, N. Argintescu - Amza, I. Mereutã, E.Schileru.

 

Interviews

2001

• Romanian TV Channel 1 and International, An Artist Profile, 30 minutes. Producer Marilena Rotaru.

1997

•TV Channel 16. An Artist Profile, 3 episodes 30 minutes ea. New York.

1974

• Radio France, with Georges Charbonnier about “Sigma 9” of Bordeaux.

• Romanian Radio and TV, Profile, with Liviu Oprescu about the installation at the New Gallery, Bucharest.

 

Writings

2006

• "An Artist's Journey in Art and Science: From behind the Iron Court to Present-Day America", Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, October, vol. 39, #5, (the MIT Press, Boston, Ma., ) pp.402-409 and 436.

ABSTRACT
The artist traces his work from its beginnings behind the Iron Curtain in 1967, when cybernetics became the driving force of his creative process, to the present day. Given the scarcity of information and the absence of access to Western experimental work in Romania, this step was the unlikely result of a purely personal train of thought. He went on to lecture and write extensively to promote cybernetics and explain his approach to art, which was highly unconventional in the context of the times. Two directions emerged and remain the focus of his work today: the S-Band, an interactive art machine, and the Meta-Phorm, a behavioral geometry articulated by cybernetic mechanisms.

The article is also available at the Project Muse at:

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/leonardo/v039/39.5epure.pdf

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• "Cybernetic Ceremony in Black Velvet", paper at the Creative Manipulations of Space, Time and Image/ Art Sketches , the ACM Siggraph, (Boston, Ma.).

• "Artist Statement," the ACM Siggraph 2006 Art Gallery Catalogue, (Boston, Ma.) p.42.

2005

• "Artist Statement", the ACM Siggraph 2005 Art Gallery Catalogue, (Los Angeles, Ca.), p.58-59.

2001

• Persona 2, Statement - Leonardo, vol. 34, #5, (the MIT Press, Boston, Massachusets), pp. 524.

1974

• “Applications of Cybernetic Methods in Fine Art”, the Arta Plasticã Magazine, (Bucharest, Romania, October).

•"Fine Arts and Cybernetic Methods", the catalogue of the one man show, the New Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, (March--April).

1973

• “Mathematics and Anatomical Construction,” the Secolul XX Magazine, #11-12, (Bucharest, Romania).

• "Applications des Methodes Cybernetiques dans les Arts Plastiques,” paper at the Sigma 9, Contact II, Art and Computers, Bordeaux Festival, (France, November 16--24).

•“Mathematical Realism,” the Arta Plasticã Magazine, (Bucharest, Romania, April 13).

1971

• “Glossary - Terms borrowed from cybernetics and used in art,” the Arta Plasticã Magazine #1 ,2, 3, 4, 5, (Bucharest)

• “S-Bands”, Science and Technique, (Bucharest, Romania, June)

1970

• “S-Bands,” the Arta Plasticã Magazine # 7, (Bucharest, Romania, September).

• “Cybernetics and Art,” the Arta Plasticã Magazine # 7, (Bucharest, Romania, September).

• “Cybernetic attitude and mathematical thinking,” Romania Literara # 25, (Bucharest, Romania, June).

 

 

Study travels

• 2006 Italy, Germany
• 2004 France, Romania
• 2003 Italy
• 1994 England
• 1989 Greece and Turkey
• 1988 Spain
• 1987 India -
• 1986 and 1985 Mexico
• 1982 France and Greece
• 1981 Italy