Diaz Alama CANTO XVII. Gerion
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About This Work
In *CANTO XVII. Gerion*, Jordi Diaz Alama channels the narrative intensity of Dante’s *Inferno* through a rigorously contemporary painterly language. Executed with the artist’s signature command of figurative distortion and chiaroscuro, the work stages Gerion—mythic embodiment of fraud—as a charged, theatrical presence, where sculptural modelling meets eruptive brushwork. Diaz Alama’s technique toggles between precise draughtsmanship and visceral paint handling, creating a tension that mirrors the moral instability of the subject. Rooted in European art history yet alert to today’s visual culture, the painting reframes a canonical literary episode as an urgent meditation on deception, power, and spectacle. A compelling example of contemporary figurative painting with enduring cultural resonance.
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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