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Daniel Dacio
The Error of Prometheus
Daniel Dacio, Icarus, 2021. Oil on canvas.
A curated presentation of contemporary Spanish figurative painting exploring myth, beauty, knowledge and the unstable limits of human ambition.
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Curatorial Statement
The Error of Prometheus approaches classical mythology as a contemporary language for desire, ambition and contradiction. Daniel Dacio’s figures do not illustrate myth; they return it to the present, where beauty, knowledge and self-understanding remain unstable forms of power.
From Prometheus to Narcissus, Pygmalion, Icarus and Pandora, the collection explores the human impulse to create, idealise and exceed its own limits. These works do not offer resolution. They hold the viewer inside the ambiguity of knowledge: what elevates us, what deceives us and what remains unresolved.
Selected Works
A focused selection from The Error of Prometheus.
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El intrépido Prometeo
The Intrepid Prometheus, 2025. Oil on canvas. Daniel Dacio
Knowledge, power and the first fracture.
La negativa de Pandora
Pandora’s Refusal, 2024. Oil on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
Desire, refusal and the threshold of consequence.
Eros
Eros, 2026. Oil on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
Desire, creation and the force that unsettles reason.
Ondine, mi bella náyade
Undine, My Beautiful Naiad, 2024. Oil on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
Water, body and myth as a form of seduction.
Neptuno, un murmullo que se eleva y crece
Neptunus, a mumur that rises and grows, 2021. Mixed media on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
Depth, force and the rise of mythic power.
Las Moiras, geometría sagrada
The Moirai Sacred Geometry, 2026. Oil on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
Destiny, measure and the limit of human will.
Narciso
Narcissus, 2026. Oil on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
Image, desire and the closed mirror of beauty.
Medusa, historia de una seducción
Medusa, Story of a Seduction, 2024. Oil on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
The gaze, seduction and the violence of representation.
Mantis
Mantis, 2021. Mixed media on canvas.
Daniel Dacio
Vision, prophecy and the knowledge that precedes reason.
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About Daniel Dacio
A painter of myth, body and unstable beauty.
Daniel Dacio’s painting begins with beauty, but it does not end there. His figures appear suspended between apparition and memory, as if seen through water: bodies emerge, dissolve, reflect and return to the surface with unsettling precision.
His work is immediately seductive, yet never decorative. Beneath the elegance of the image lies a persistent search for the more difficult truths of human nature: desire, fragility, ambition, self-deception and the longing to transcend our own limits.
Dacio studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and was later admitted as a copyist at the Museo Nacional del Prado, where he studied the techniques of the Old Masters directly from the original paintings. This classical foundation does not lead his work toward nostalgia. It gives him the discipline to make myth feel contemporary, physical and alive.
His practice extends across painting, woodcut, engraving, egg tempera, mural painting, stucco, illustration and storyboard. That breadth gives his images an unusual command of surface, movement and narrative. Each figure seems both staged and discovered; theatrical and intimate; mythic and profoundly human.
In The Error of Prometheus, Dacio turns classical mythology into a language of revelation. Prometheus, Narcissus, Medusa, Pandora, Eros and the Moirai are not distant legends, but living structures of contradiction. Through them, beauty becomes a threshold, myth becomes knowledge, and the human body becomes the place where mystery, desire, memory and consequence are made visible.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 — The Error of Prometheus, Yuri López Kullins Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2007 — Beauty, Art and Falsehood, Punta Umbría, Huelva, Spain
2000 — Litany, Taller Serigrafía, Valencia, Spain
1999 — Gainsborough Exhibition Hall, Bilbao, Spain
Full exhibition history available upon request.
Collector Inquiries
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