Sixe Paredes

Beginning his artistic career in the world of graffiti in Barcelona in the late 80s, from the 90s he began to experiment with other artistic formats such as painting, sculpture, looms and installation. Due to his repeated trips to Peru, he also began to investigate traditional motifs and local crafts in the country, whose ancient techniques in ceramics and looms are almost extinct. This contact supposes a change of discourse in his work, in which the learned tradition merges with a contemporary perspective. Thus arises the concept of “ancestral futurism” which -paraphrasing Laura García-Borreguero- supposes a tribute by the artist to primitive cultures, reinventing a new idea of ​​connections from the essential. It is a work that contains within itself its own abstract universe endowed with symbolic forms with a particular attention to the linear and the geometric and that sometimes includes a numerical cryptography (“circuits”) that connects the spectator with another deeper reality. According to the artist himself, “today my work continues to be inspired by the ancient world, but at the same time also by the present, contrasting them and transmuting them into imaginary dualities, between the past and the future.”