Diaz Alama CANTO I Selva Selvaggia
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About This Work
In *CANTO I Selva Selvaggia*, Jordi Diaz Alama opens an immersive threshold into a “dark wood” of contemporary consciousness, fusing classical draftsmanship with cinematic immediacy. Working with virtuoso control of chiaroscuro and a painterly, layered surface, Diaz Alama builds a dense pictorial ecology where figuration and atmosphere interlock—suggesting both Renaissance tonal discipline and the psychological charge of modern narrative painting. The composition’s vegetal surge and compressed space evoke cultural memory, from Dante’s opening canto to Mediterranean myth, while remaining resolutely present in its urgency and tactility. This work exemplifies Diaz Alama’s commitment to reanimating historical visual languages for today, offering a compelling, museum-calibre statement within current European figurative painting.
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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