VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 64 W x 72 H x 1 D in
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Drink up, its time to go. One for the road? You’ve had enough. Western culture found it’s soul in a bottle many millennia ago and ever since the source of much courage and creativity, inspiration and forgetting. No wonder then that the artist’s eye has traditionally wandered freely from subject to glass and back again, especially in troubled times. Poets and painters are always interested in human character and how we express our humanity. Especially how we face up to mounting anxieties and pressures, the irony of isolation and division with ever-increasing inter-connectedness, meaningless chatter and visual overload. The Bar is a microcosm of this. Not just a place of solace and escape, of Lethe and Hypnos where sorrows are drowned, but also of togetherness and defiance; where stories are told as we laugh at ourselves and the absurdity of everything that doesn’t really matter. There we can reject the darkness, send Erebos away and dance with Pasithea and her sisters. So chin up, raise your glass, chase out the devil and then stay for another.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:64 W x 72 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United Kingdom
Zenon Jepras is a storyteller who has come to dig into our past, to record our recollections and reconstruct them in order to offer us a form of archaeology of memory. Each work holds clues to deeper personal and social narratives, like skeletons hidden in the closet. His characters often take the form of animals for satirical effect; thus creating an "˜alternative world' that serves to undermine socially dominant forces. What is particularly interesting is that his work is reminiscent of the post-expressionist movement of New Objectivism that emerged in the Weimar Republic of Germany and ended with the rise of Hitler to power. As George Grosz, Jepras turns his satirical eye towards what has proven to be a kind of hypocritical patriotism; on the ignorance and even indifference of laymen towards what was happening; on the greediness and corruption of the decades that led to the fall. Are we today, on evidence for the rise of neonazism and authoritarian goverments in a number of European countries, insist on burying our head in the sand.. But Jepras is not condemnatory; on the contrary, he looks upon his subjects with empathy; with a kind of nostalgia brought to him by his own upbringing as an emigrant; with acceptance and forgiveness. Effi Kyprianidou Dec 2012 Zenon Jepras was born in Cardiff, Wales, UK in 1969 to Greek parents, from Corfu and Cyprus. He lives and works in London. (Insta: zenonart.cy)
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