Diaz Alama CANTO XXIV-XXV. The Thieves
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About This Work
In *CANTO XXIV–XXV. The Thieves*, Jordi Diaz Alama revisits Dante’s *Inferno* with a contemporary painter’s urgency, translating the poem’s serpentine metamorphoses into a visceral, psychologically charged image. Working with a virtuosic command of figuration—layered pigment, tense modelling, and heightened chiaroscuro—Diaz Alama stages bodies in flux, where skin, shadow, and gesture become instruments of moral consequence. The composition’s compressed space and theatrical lighting echo Old Master drama while remaining distinctly modern in its cropped intensity and emotional velocity. By reactivating a canonical literary source through contemporary painting, the artist underscores enduring questions of transgression, identity, and transformation—positioning this work within today’s renewed dialogue between classical narrative, cultural memory, and expressive realism.
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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