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After Cana - Charcoal on paper, 240 × 300 cm
2018, Collection: Enter Foundation
Jorge da Cruz’s After Cana revisits Paolo Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana, transforming a Renaissance celebration into a scene of quiet unease. Drawn in charcoal across sixteen assembled sheets of paper, the work uses tonal contrasts, areas of untouched paper, and visible seams to reinterpret the original composition. As water rises across the banquet floor, the guests continue celebrating, seemingly unaware of the approaching flood. The work reflects on the fragility of abundance and the unsettling ability to maintain familiar rituals even as the world around us begins to fall apart.
*Mock-up — possible placement
These are designs I would like to tattoo. The body images are mock-ups, showing possible placements, scale and how each drawing could live anatomically on the skin. If one of these designs speaks to you, you can book the tattoo directly through the button on this page.
Inkjet printing, writing and drawing on old paper. JorgedaCruz, Berlin, 2010.
German Emotions is one of the first bodies of work Jorge da Cruz developed after moving to Berlin. Created without a permanent studio, the series brings together found pages, old documents, discarded books, and flea-market materials with photographs taken in Lisbon, short texts, and small visual fragments. What began as a personal passion project has gradually evolved into a broader artistic exploration, where personal memories and found materials come together to create new images, associations, and narratives.
