Digital Compositions, Theotokis Zervos | Corfu Art Gallery

Corfu Art Gallery presents Theotokis Zervos: Digital Compositions

The Corfu Art Gallery presents poet and artist Theotokis Zervos, a multifaceted personality who, beyond his poetic works, showcases his visual art in the exhibition titled “Digital Compositions.”

The exhibition will be complemented by sound compositions by electroacoustic music composer Andreas Mniéstris.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at 19:00 at the Corfu Art Gallery, 77 Ioannou Theotoki Street.

Exhibition Overview: The poetry of Theotokis Zervos could be characterized as “Cosmic” (a term coined by the writer and critic Anna Afdentoulidou), as it creates a world uniquely his own, characteristic and rare for contemporary poetic contexts. In his poems, the collective and the individual, nature and urban spaces, ontological questions, the great challenges of existence, love, loss, vision, decay, and the role of art all coexist.

The transition from poetry to visual art is presented through a series of 20 works (visualizations, as he calls them) in digital art, processed with additional techniques such as collage, tempera, and inks. This approach highlights Zervos’s artistic and compositional abilities. His visual work reveals influences from 20th-century movements, including Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, though these influences do not define his style.

Theotokis Zervos is not a narrative artist; he is a profound, self-sufficient thinker. His visual mark is characterized by an existential quest for the being of the individual, in conjunction with the collective. He has the spirit of a true artist.

Biography: Theotokis Zervos was born in Corfu in 1943. He studied in Thessaloniki and worked as a radiologist. He has been involved in poetry from a young age. His poetic works include Antístixi (Kéimena 1971), Poems (Exántas 1978), Murder on an Effigy (Pórfiras 1984), Logoklónos (Kéimena 1987), Voluntary Descent (Épsilon 1991). In 1980, he contributed to the literary journal Pórfiras. In 2016, he published In the Dust of the Iconostasis (Graviílidis Editions), which was shortlisted for the State Poetry Award. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Polish, English, and Serbian. For the past 20 years, he has focused on the expressive possibilities of collage, particularly digital collage, creating co-images with digital techniques. He has exhibited his works three times in Corfu and once in Thessaloniki.

Exhibition Duration:
January 22, 2025 – February 17, 2025

Visiting Hours:
09:00 – 16:00, Monday to Friday.