Diaz Alama CANTO XXIX. The Forgers
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About This Work
Jordi Diaz Alama’s *CANTO XXIX. The Forgers* channels the moral theatre of Dante’s *Inferno* into a contemporary figurative painting of visceral clarity. Working with a disciplined, academic handling of paint—layered glazing, tonal modelling, and incisive draughtsmanship—Diaz Alama builds a charged choreography of bodies where light becomes both revelation and indictment. The composition’s baroque intensity and cinematic focus reframe medieval allegory as a timely meditation on authenticity, deceit, and the economies of value that shape culture today. By fusing Old Master technique with a distinctly modern psychological edge, the artist situates his practice within the renewed international discourse around narrative realism and ethical representation in contemporary art.
About the Artist
Jordi Diaz Alamà was born in Granollers in 1986, he graduated from the Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He also trained at the classical art schools, such as the Florence Academy of Art (Florence) where he learned the techniques used by the great masters of 19th-century painting. Jordi ...
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