Zenon Jepras

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 for...

After reading Physics at University College London, he studied painting at Glasgow School of Art (1989-94) and Cultural theory at Goldsmiths College, London 2002.

SELECTED:

2021 "Ithankas" Alpha CK Gallery, Nicosia

2019 "How to be Happy", Alpha CK Gallery, Nicosia

2017 "Killing Time", Alpha CK Gallery, Nicosia

2015 "Rocket Man", Gallery Morfi Limassol

Embody - Collection Gallery Nicosia

2014 "Playgrounds of Forgetting" Alpha Gallery Nicosia

Art Athina, Athens Greece

2012 "Not quite a Memory" Alpha Gallery Nicosia
a arte do previsίvel, Cordoaria Naciona, Lisbon Portugal

2011 "Recent paintings" DP Gallery Limassol



2010 "From the Sand" Alpha Gallery Nicosia

2009 "Gorilla" Gallery Gloria Nicosia
5 Cypriot Artists, Brom Gallery, Helsinki. Finland

"Recent Paintings" CK Gallery, Nicosia


2008 "Deconstructing Troy", Royal Commonwealth Club, London
"Where do we go from Here?" Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia


2007 "Cacophony" Gallery K London.

"Drawings and Paintings": Culture Year of the Ten,


2005 Gallery Tammen and Busch, Berlin; Munich Germany; Essen Town Hall, Essen.

Thessaloniki Municipal Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

1997 Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean;
La Cavallerizza, Turin, Italy; The Cable Factory ...