Diaz Alama CANTO XXII. The Swindlers
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About This Work
In **“CANTO XXII. The Swindlers,”** Jordi Díaz Alama brings a bracingly contemporary sensibility to an Old Master tradition, translating moral allegory into urgent painterly drama. Working with virtuosic control of **oil paint**, Díaz Alama builds dense passages of **impasto** and glazed shadows, orchestrating chiaroscuro and fractured figure-groupings to suggest deception, performance, and complicity. The composition’s theatrical compression—at once Baroque and cinematic—invites close reading of gesture, surface, and narrative ambiguity. Rooted in the cultural afterlife of Dante’s *Inferno* yet unmistakably of the present, the work resonates with today’s economies of illusion, misinformation, and transactional power. A compelling example of Díaz Alama’s figurative practice, it bridges historical iconography and contemporary critique.
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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