Diaz Alama The Frieze of Souls I
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About This Work
In *Diaz Alama The Frieze of Souls I*, Jordi Díaz Alama channels the architectural rhythm of a classical frieze into a contemporary field of psychological intensity. Layered, gestural mark-making and a controlled palette evoke bodies in flux—figures emerging, dissolving, and reforming through paint’s physicality. Díaz Alama’s approach fuses draftsmanship with painterly abrasion, building a surface that reads as both narrative and archeological trace. The work resonates with Mediterranean art history and the enduring symbolism of procession, while speaking to modern anxieties around identity, migration, and collective memory. At once figurative and abstract, this contemporary painting positions the human form as a site of cultural myth and emotional 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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