Diaz Alama CANTO VI. The Gluttons
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About This Work
In *CANTO VI. The Gluttons*, Jordi Diaz Alama channels Dante’s *Inferno* into a contemporary figurative painting of visceral intensity. Working with virtuosic draftsmanship and a Baroque-informed command of chiaroscuro, the artist builds a dense, corporeal scene where flesh, gravity, and excess become both subject and metaphor. Layered brushwork and heightened tonal contrasts create a cinematic compression of bodies, suggesting moral weight as much as physical mass. Diaz Alama’s approach merges Old Master painting techniques with present-day psychological realism, positioning the work within ongoing conversations about consumption, appetite, and modern forms of indulgence. Culturally resonant and formally rigorous, the painting reanimates a canonical text as a sharply current allegory.
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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