Deconstructing Troy by Zenon Jepras

“Deconstructing Troy” will be exhibiting from Monday 29 September – Monday 20 October 2008 at the Royal Commonwealth Society, 25 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AP. The exhibition is free to visit, and group views can be arranged by appointment. Please call 020 7930 6733. 

Royal Commonwealth Society: Ms. Zoë Ware, Special Assistant Tel: 020 7930 6733 Email: zoe.ware@rcsint.org

This exhibition of paintings is supported by the Cyprus High Commission.

Zenon Jepras began exhibiting in 1996 with a series of works contemporizing the themes behind the myth of Odysseus. Since then his work has focused on the tradition of narrative painting and telling stories using the language of painting – colour, texture and mark, sign and symbol.

The new body of work that is being exhibited at the Royal Commonwealth Society applies these same principals to some of the timeless Homeric Heroes as a link with the global and political scale of ancient (and modern) myth. However the pictures are more inward looking - perhaps treating the artist’s own personal world with the same keen eye and caustic wit he has in the past aimed at the wider world.

In this way, these paintings present a series of bold and immediate narratives on a viewpoint of necessarily disappointing heroes, as flawed and desperately human as Homer’s but still attempting to rise to the unreal expectations of a mundane and mendacious world where no-one lives happily ever after.

See http://www.zenonart.co.uk/painting.html for more about the artist.