Diaz Alama CANTO XII. The Murderers and T

In *CANTO XII. The Murderers and T*, Jordi Díaz Alamá channels the moral intensity of Dante’s *Inferno* into a contemporary figurative painting of heightened psychological charge. Working with virtuosic draftsmanship and a painterly command of oil—layered glazes, abrasive scumbles, and surgically placed highlights—Díaz Alamá constructs a cinematic chiaroscuro where bodies feel both classical and urgently modern.

The composition’s compressed space and fractured gestures amplify themes of violence, culpability, and collective witness, transforming literary source into a visceral image of our present. Bridging Old Master technique with a distinctly current sensibility, the work situates Spanish realism within a broader European tradition while speaking to today’s cultural anxieties around power, transgression, and human consequence.

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 consolidated his training during a series of stays with contemporary masters of realism such as the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum , Guillermo Muñoz Vera as well as Antonio López .

Jordi is the Director of The Barcelona Arts Academy here’s a link to Take a tour with Jordi of the academy and here i…