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Casa de Vacas, Madrid

[29/05/2025 – 22/06/2025]

Jordi Díaz Alamà (Granollers, 1986) presents Life and Dream, a unique collection of dreamscapes, a journey through the hills of an exuberant ordered chaos. He invites us to embark on a psychological pilgrimage that traverses untamed jungles and impossible deserts of the subconscious.

The land of dreams is a workshop where waking life is repaired and redeemed, where fear and hope are distilled. In the convulsive horizons of sleep – the small death of each day – one explores what one loves without harming it, visits what one hates without being harmed, enjoys what one desires without cost, and confronts what is repressed without shame.
In that sense, painting is much like the act of dreaming itself. The painter’s studio becomes the workshop of dreams and the canvas, its windows. With a little luck and a lot of attention, the painter captures a fragment of that great dream shared by all, a portion of that great fiction Calderón wrote about.
Alamà plays, expands his palette and explores unsuspected territories. He works balancing between figuration and abstraction, taking a small detour in his trajectory to find new codes and plastic resources. Unleashed color and light invade the space as we feel the warmth of that theater of dreams, the heat of that legendary sun that never blinks.

It is important to have a hunger for dreams. Alamà understands that the world might resemble a nightmare and we need to dream more and dream better. Maybe, even wake up.
We walk through Life and Dream and feel a special tension, a uncanny gravity characteristic of surrealism. The figures and vegetation grow outside of time. Elusive flowers and corals, magical trees and legendary wanderers, all ambiguous inhabitants of this beyond that is momentarily accessible.

The exhibition will be on view from May 29th to June 22nd at Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas, Madrid.

London

[09/05/2024 – 18/05/2024]

“El Gallo Mujica” presented at the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

Jordi Díaz Alamà immortalizes Daniel Mujica, ‘El Gallo Mujica’, in this timeless oil portrait. The composition of the model echoes Alamà’s previous works, such as ‘Valor y al toro!’ (2023) or ‘Habitación 103’ (2024). A young man, sitting on a golden silk cloth adorned with a feather pattern, gazes directly at the viewer. He turns his head to look at us. On his back is a Japanese-style tattoo depicting a majestic rooster amidst nature—a symbolic narrative of his journey.

The pronounced chiaroscuro amplifies the figure’s presence, conveying a sense of self-assuredness and depth. Alamà’s meticulous brushwork brings the canvas to life with vivid and vibrant colors. Mujica was born in Venezuela, where his childhood fascination with cockfights instilled in him the valor and tenacity of these proud creatures. He lived in Ecuador and later in Brazil, where he refined his skills in tattoo artistry before embarking on a transformative trip to Amsterdam.

Inspired by the works of van Gogh, Mujica’s passion for painting was sparked, prompting him to pursue formal training at the Barcelona Academy of Art under the tutelage of Alamà.

China

[08/11/2023 – 05/01/2024]

Collective exhibition at Quanshanshi Art Center (Hangzou) from 8th of November to 28th of December 2023 and at the National Theatre (Beijing) from 5th of December 2023 to 5th of January 2024.

Les Bernardes (Girona)

[22/09/2023 – 23/12/2023]

Exhibition at Les Bernardes, Espai de Cultura Contemporània (Salt)