Drawing
Diffuse is a series of drawings on canvas where the night is the protagonist. Portraits and objects in which graphite explores different shades of gray, with light and color being subsidiaries of a penumbra inhabited by night owls: faces, hands, burning cigarettes, the detail of the clavicle of a woman who hides her face. Life and movements that occur in a dream scene that only the artist has access to, intruding to capture the essence of the moment. The format of each work and its framework are also decisive, since everything happens at a distance and in a measure that empowers each piece. The portrait, which has been a constant in Diego Díaz’s plastic proposal, acquires in this exhibition a dimension that goes beyond technical purity, and which allows each image to be assumed as the frame of a living scene that cuts through a night from which we can only see its reverse.
Natalia Castillo Verdugo.
AMA+ Director
About boroque artworks
«His young characters are represented with the security and perception of the old masters, but their contemporary appearance as well as the bohemian atmosphere of where they arise with admirable precision, linking them clearly with the here and now..»
Eduardo Serrano.
Art Curator
About nighttime drawings
In the works of Diego Díaz, a great part of the protagonist is the support of the paper that gets involved as a main actor in the scenes and whose hue, black or red, establishes the courage, the character and the spirit of the representations. His papers reveal and hide simultaneously. They reveal a time, circumstances and a situation that in the case of the black papers are patently related to the night.
Eduardo Serrano.
Art Curator
About the red drawings
Is a series of drawings on canvas where the indisputable protagonist is the color red and its symbolic charge; red and nudity. Here, Diego Díaz shows proof of his technical mastery and uses color to create an erotic and passionate atmosphere. The format and spatial composition of each piece, as is frequent in this artist, acquire a singular importance: tiny, exiled to a corner of the work, a human figure abstracts itself from the sea of red that surrounds it. At another extreme, a couple indulges in embrace, in a Martian world where everyone seems to elude the viewer’s gaze. They are organic portraits of desire that account for secret journeys, and of their intensity. Introspections that hide the blood its strength and color.
Natalia Castillo Verdugo.
AMA+ Director
