Sherban EpurČ
60-11 Broadway 5L
Woodside, NY 11377
Fax: +202 795 7565
Email: bles17@earthlink.net
Website: sherban-epure.com |
Trained in electronics and painting, Sherban EpurČ began working on
projects combining art and science in Romania in 1967. At that time,
he was already a very active professional painter and a member of the
Alliance of the Romanian Fine Artists.
Currently, he resides and works in New York, where he emigrated in 1980.
He did exhibit cyberneticaly based / digital work at the 7th and 8th
Youth Biennial of Paris in 1971 and 1973, the 25th Edinburgh
Festival,1971, the 9th Sigma Festival in Bordeaux, France, 1973, the
Fine Art Competition, Ciprus, (Award), 1973, and at The New Gallery in
Bucharest, Romania, 1974.
In 1973, at the Sigma 9 Contact II in Bordeaux France, his work was
presented alongside some of the most influential artists and animators
in the field of computer art, such as Georges Charbonnier, Abraham
Moles, Herbert Franke, Herve Huitric, Peter Kreiss, Kenneth Knowlton,
Vera Molnar, Manfred Mohr, and Georg Nees.
From 1980 to this day his work has been exhibited in many venues,
both the States and Europe and especially with the New York Digital
Salon and Siggraph.
Works in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (The Patric Prince
Collection of digital art.); Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, New York; the
National Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.
EpurČ put cybernetics, as a creative engine, at the core of his art
and by the end of 1967, two directions had emerged; these remain the
chief focus of his work to this day: the S-Band and the Meta-Phorm.
The S-Band (Sherban's Band) may be seen as an interactive machine able
to reconfigures twelve visual variables, three of geometry and eight
of color; the background is the last of these. The scope of the band
is not to imitate nature, as origami does, but to produce
non-subjective, enjoyable art forms.
The Meta-Phorm (Meta+Metaphor+Form) is intended to be the the visual
appearance/materialisation of an abstract creative proposition by
introducing geometrical forms into a game relationship.
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