Sixe Paredes is a self-taught artist who formed himself through research and practice. Over the course of more than twenty-five years of artistic creation, he has developed his pictorial language, which includes a very personal figurative art featuring a bestiary of beings halfway between human and animal and an art tending towards abstraction, characteristic of his current work. He has developed a language through elements and symbols that have accompanied him, for the most part, throughout his career and have undergone a transmutation over time.
Among the successive periods that have seen the birth of the different series of paintings, the year 2009 could be considered a turning point. Indeed, following his stay in Peru, his work took a new direction. In the following years, Sixe Paredes continues to travel around the country and shows a deep interest in pre-Columbian cultures. He researched and worked with local artists, studying ancient ceramic and weaving techniques, now almost extinct, which he would later incorporate into his work, thus enriching his artistic expression.
His repeated contacts with Peru also led to a change in the artist's discourse. He begins to develop a style in which the learned tradition was mixed with a contemporary perspective. His art thus becomes a tribute to primitive cultures. He searches for the essential, a mixture between the past and the present. Metaphorical and introspective in nature, the result of personal experience and not a desire to imitate, his work attempts to explore other ways of perceiving reality, through a deeper and more mystical conception. It is this mixture of different styles and elements that gives Sixe's work a unique aesthetic dimension.
Laura GARCÍA-BORREGUERO GÓMEZ
Social and cultural anthropologist
Excerpt from the preface of the exhibition catalogue of Sixe Paredes "Color, Forma y Materia"