Sixeart
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Born in 1975, Sergio Hidalgo Parades is a contemporary artist from Barcelona
known as Sixe art or Sixeart. He started to paint graffiti
in the late 1980s. In the mid-90s he developed his multidisciplinary talents in the fields of sculpture and studio painting. In 2008, Sixeart, Blu
, Faile, JR, Nunca, Os Gêmeos
painted the Tate Modern
in London for the exhibition Street Art.
Sixeart belongs to the collective El Equipo Plástico with the artists Nuria Mora, Nano4814 and Eltono.
Kati Krause wrote in the Wall Street Journal:"Sergio Hidalgo, alias Sixeart,... who was one of the artists featured in the Tate Modern exhibition, started scrawling his name on the walls of his native Badalona, a suburb of Barcelona, in the late '80s, when graffiti was still a novelty in Spain. Despite lacking a formal artistic training, he decided to add a paintbrush and canvas to his usual tools, to great effect: His surrealist, childlike style struck a chord with audiences and art collectors the world over. Today, he is being mentioned -- and exhibited -- together with the likes of Joan Miró
and Antoni Tàpies
."
Booked. - colectiva- Carmichael Gallery. Los Ángeles. EEUU.
Identitat,s. Proyecto de cohesión social através del arte. Badalona. España.
Bac Festival - colectiva-, Centro de cultura contemporánea de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain.
La cuadra. - colectivo equipo plastico. Centro Cultural de España. Lima. Perú.
Forma y color. colectiva-, N2 Galería, Barcelona. Spain.
Son jóvenes y maestros - colectiva-, N2 Galería, Barcelona. Spain.
“Suenan gallinas con ser humanas",Solo show, Artspace, São Paulo, Brazil
"Son Jovenes y maestros", Group Show, N2 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
"Batalla Perdida", Group show, A.L.I.C.E. Gallery,Brussels, Belgium
"De Chillida a Sixeart. Obra tridimensional", Group show, gallery Manel Mayoral.
"Guerreros",Solo show, N2 Galeria, Madrid, Spain
"We love Asbaek"- Solo show, Rojo Artspace, Copenhagen, Danemark
"International arte", Live painting, patronage by J&B, Barcelona, Spain
"Nomadaz", Group show, Mediterranean Art Connection, Pablo Aravena, Spain
"Next", Scion Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
"Art Loft" 2007, Los Angeles, USA.
"III Hip-Hop and Urban Culture Festival", Live painting,Madrid, Spain.
"III International Festival of the Arts in Castilla and León, Live Painting, Spain.
"Sixeart & Raul de Dios, N2 Galería, Barcelona, Spain.
"Rio Loco" Festival, Toulouse, FR.
"Arte Urbano Festival, Live Painting, Bilbao, Spain
"III HIPNOTIK Festival, Barcelona, Spain
"Nuit Blanche", Live Painting, Madrid, Spain
"Museum of Contemporary Art Pamplona, Live Digital painting, Pamplona, Spain
MALOS CON FLEQUILLO, Galería Subacuatica, Madrid, ES.
PABELLÓN DE GUTIÉRREZ, León, ES.
CULTURA URBANA, Madrid, ES.
CHEETAH GIRLS 2, decorative pictures and murals for the movie, Disney Production, Barcelona, ES.
TUC TUC, murals and sculptures for the children's clothing brand, Logroño, ES.
LOIS, murals and catalog design 2005-2006, Barcelona, ES.
"IBIZA URBAN" Festival - Graffiti exhibition, Ibiza, ES.
MARC MARTI, participation in the catalogue, Barcelona, ES.
STEREO, Participants Ventura Pons, Juanito del Pinocho, Mariscal, Juli Capella, Sixeart.
ROJO® SMART Collective Exhibit, Invaliden1, Berlin, D.
ROJO® Nike "Air a little less gravity" - special edition in cooperation with NIKE - selected artists
ROJO® ROJO®out 1ª, "d'Art Urbà Publicitari" - International masters of Urban Art under patronage of J&B, Barcelona, ES.
"BOMBIT" Participation in the Documentary, Director and producer JOHN REISS, San Francisco 2005-2006, USA.
"AEROSOL" Documentary, 3rd Finalist at the Goya Prize, Director Michael Rolano, Madrid, ES.
"ATLANTIS phase 1" Documentary, directed by, Sergio Aguilar, Madrid, ES.
"NEXTS", Participation in documentary about Urban Art, Director Pablo Aravena, Madrid, ES.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY, Galería La Santa, Barcelona, ES.
International Festival for Contemporary Art, Barcelona, ES.
TRAS LA PARED, Galería Antta Gallery, Madrid, ES.
CAMEL ART, Directed by the Fura del Baus, Barcelona, ES.
STREET ART, AN EVOLVED ARTFORM CONTINUING TO EVOLVE, Discussion, Fundación Artium de Álava, Vitoria, ES.
URBAN ART, International Graffiti Festival, Gran Canaria, ES.
PRIMER ASALTO. PUBLIC ART IN ZARAGOZA- Urban Interventions and expo in Puerta Cinería, Zaragoza, ES.
VOLCON, Mural in the official store, Tarifa, ES.
KINA FERNANDEZ, Decoration and exhibit of clothing line, Cibeles, Madrid, ES.
TOYR2, Veinte Cuatro Quilates Store, Barcelona, ES.
CARHARRT, Decor of shop window and shop, Barcelona, ES.
SIXEART-LAMANO, Skate Park Mural, Montpellier, FR.
"LA MOSTRA" Festival for new Creators, Mural in Central Station, Milan, IT.
"CAMELART" Festival for new Creators, First Prize Graffiti, Madrid, ES.
URBAN ART Festival, Mural Paintings, Sevilla, ES.
FEM 3 Festival for new Creators, Collective Mural, Madrid, ES.
CAMELART 3 Finalista, Alternative Sculpture, Madrid, ES.
SCHWEPPES, Live Painting for Drink Launch, Sonar, Barcelona, ES.
XDYE Catalogue, Mural decoration, Barcelona, ES.
ZAIRA DOLÇ, Clothing Collection, Fashion Show, Pasarela Gaudí, Barcelona, ES.
LOUIS VUITTON, Live Mural Painting, Barcelona, ES.
JOSEP FONT, Decor of Fashion Show, Barcelona, ES.
CIMARRON, Decor of Fashion Show, Barcelona, ES.
KOSMOPOLITE, Galería Taxi Gallery, Bagnolet, París, FR.
TROMPELLIER DOS MIL DOS, Galería S.T.Ravi, Montpellier, FR.
LA VIDA, Galería Cercle 22, Barcelona, ES.
SIN INTENCION, Galería Cercle 22, Barcelona, ES.
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
known as Sixe art or Sixeart. He started to paint graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
in the late 1980s. In the mid-90s he developed his multidisciplinary talents in the fields of sculpture and studio painting. In 2008, Sixeart, Blu
Blu (artist)
Blu is the pseudonym of an italian artist who conceals his real identity. He lives in Bologna and has been active in street art since 1999.- Early career :...
, Faile, JR, Nunca, Os Gêmeos
Os Gêmeos
Os Gêmeos are graffiti artist identical twin brothers from São Paulo, Brazil, whose real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a main influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil's own style...
painted the Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
in London for the exhibition Street Art.
Sixeart belongs to the collective El Equipo Plástico with the artists Nuria Mora, Nano4814 and Eltono.
Kati Krause wrote in the Wall Street Journal:"Sergio Hidalgo, alias Sixeart,... who was one of the artists featured in the Tate Modern exhibition, started scrawling his name on the walls of his native Badalona, a suburb of Barcelona, in the late '80s, when graffiti was still a novelty in Spain. Despite lacking a formal artistic training, he decided to add a paintbrush and canvas to his usual tools, to great effect: His surrealist, childlike style struck a chord with audiences and art collectors the world over. Today, he is being mentioned -- and exhibited -- together with the likes of Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
and Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies is a Catalan painter. He is one of the most famous European artists of his generation. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting...
."
Style
His artwork is a powerful composition of colors and geometrical forms. He sometimes incorporates signs that lead the viewer into his imaginary world inspired by the urban landscape, the city's melancholy, the genetic manipulation, the romanticism for the world that's left behind, the images lost in the passage of time…2010
Entre la silla y la madre.- Colectivo equipo plástico. Monterrey. México.Booked. - colectiva- Carmichael Gallery. Los Ángeles. EEUU.
Identitat,s. Proyecto de cohesión social através del arte. Badalona. España.
2009
SCOPE Miami. Carmichael Gallery. Miami. EEUU.Bac Festival - colectiva-, Centro de cultura contemporánea de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain.
La cuadra. - colectivo equipo plastico. Centro Cultural de España. Lima. Perú.
Forma y color. colectiva-, N2 Galería, Barcelona. Spain.
Son jóvenes y maestros - colectiva-, N2 Galería, Barcelona. Spain.
“Suenan gallinas con ser humanas",Solo show, Artspace, São Paulo, Brazil
"Son Jovenes y maestros", Group Show, N2 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
"Batalla Perdida", Group show, A.L.I.C.E. Gallery,Brussels, Belgium
"De Chillida a Sixeart. Obra tridimensional", Group show, gallery Manel Mayoral.
"Guerreros",Solo show, N2 Galeria, Madrid, Spain
2008
"Street Art at the Tate Modern", The Tate Modern, London, GB."We love Asbaek"- Solo show, Rojo Artspace, Copenhagen, Danemark
"International arte", Live painting, patronage by J&B, Barcelona, Spain
"Nomadaz", Group show, Mediterranean Art Connection, Pablo Aravena, Spain
"Next", Scion Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2007
"Mutacion animal y caprichos de la madre naturaleza", Solo Show, A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels, BE."Art Loft" 2007, Los Angeles, USA.
"III Hip-Hop and Urban Culture Festival", Live painting,Madrid, Spain.
"III International Festival of the Arts in Castilla and León, Live Painting, Spain.
"Sixeart & Raul de Dios, N2 Galería, Barcelona, Spain.
"Rio Loco" Festival, Toulouse, FR.
"Arte Urbano Festival, Live Painting, Bilbao, Spain
"III HIPNOTIK Festival, Barcelona, Spain
"Nuit Blanche", Live Painting, Madrid, Spain
"Museum of Contemporary Art Pamplona, Live Digital painting, Pamplona, Spain
2006
SIN INTENCION, Cercle 22, Barcelona, ES.MALOS CON FLEQUILLO, Galería Subacuatica, Madrid, ES.
PABELLÓN DE GUTIÉRREZ, León, ES.
CULTURA URBANA, Madrid, ES.
CHEETAH GIRLS 2, decorative pictures and murals for the movie, Disney Production, Barcelona, ES.
TUC TUC, murals and sculptures for the children's clothing brand, Logroño, ES.
LOIS, murals and catalog design 2005-2006, Barcelona, ES.
"IBIZA URBAN" Festival - Graffiti exhibition, Ibiza, ES.
MARC MARTI, participation in the catalogue, Barcelona, ES.
STEREO, Participants Ventura Pons, Juanito del Pinocho, Mariscal, Juli Capella, Sixeart.
ROJO® SMART Collective Exhibit, Invaliden1, Berlin, D.
ROJO® Nike "Air a little less gravity" - special edition in cooperation with NIKE - selected artists
ROJO® ROJO®out 1ª, "d'Art Urbà Publicitari" - International masters of Urban Art under patronage of J&B, Barcelona, ES.
"BOMBIT" Participation in the Documentary, Director and producer JOHN REISS, San Francisco 2005-2006, USA.
"AEROSOL" Documentary, 3rd Finalist at the Goya Prize, Director Michael Rolano, Madrid, ES.
"ATLANTIS phase 1" Documentary, directed by, Sergio Aguilar, Madrid, ES.
"NEXTS", Participation in documentary about Urban Art, Director Pablo Aravena, Madrid, ES.
2005
BRIGADAS AL MURO, Galería La Santa, Barcelona, ES.ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY, Galería La Santa, Barcelona, ES.
International Festival for Contemporary Art, Barcelona, ES.
TRAS LA PARED, Galería Antta Gallery, Madrid, ES.
CAMEL ART, Directed by the Fura del Baus, Barcelona, ES.
STREET ART, AN EVOLVED ARTFORM CONTINUING TO EVOLVE, Discussion, Fundación Artium de Álava, Vitoria, ES.
URBAN ART, International Graffiti Festival, Gran Canaria, ES.
PRIMER ASALTO. PUBLIC ART IN ZARAGOZA- Urban Interventions and expo in Puerta Cinería, Zaragoza, ES.
VOLCON, Mural in the official store, Tarifa, ES.
KINA FERNANDEZ, Decoration and exhibit of clothing line, Cibeles, Madrid, ES.
TOYR2, Veinte Cuatro Quilates Store, Barcelona, ES.
CARHARRT, Decor of shop window and shop, Barcelona, ES.
2004
NARBONA, Decortion of playground with mural, Montpellier, FR.SIXEART-LAMANO, Skate Park Mural, Montpellier, FR.
"LA MOSTRA" Festival for new Creators, Mural in Central Station, Milan, IT.
"CAMELART" Festival for new Creators, First Prize Graffiti, Madrid, ES.
URBAN ART Festival, Mural Paintings, Sevilla, ES.
FEM 3 Festival for new Creators, Collective Mural, Madrid, ES.
CAMELART 3 Finalista, Alternative Sculpture, Madrid, ES.
SCHWEPPES, Live Painting for Drink Launch, Sonar, Barcelona, ES.
XDYE Catalogue, Mural decoration, Barcelona, ES.
ZAIRA DOLÇ, Clothing Collection, Fashion Show, Pasarela Gaudí, Barcelona, ES.
2003
BABA FESTIVAL- Festival for new Creators, Barcelona, ES.LOUIS VUITTON, Live Mural Painting, Barcelona, ES.
JOSEP FONT, Decor of Fashion Show, Barcelona, ES.
CIMARRON, Decor of Fashion Show, Barcelona, ES.
2000
NIŇOS MALOS CON FLEQUILLO, Galería Laboratorio 27, Barcelona, ES.KOSMOPOLITE, Galería Taxi Gallery, Bagnolet, París, FR.
TROMPELLIER DOS MIL DOS, Galería S.T.Ravi, Montpellier, FR.
LA VIDA, Galería Cercle 22, Barcelona, ES.
SIN INTENCION, Galería Cercle 22, Barcelona, ES.
External links
- Sixeart Official Website
- Video Youtube - Interview (in Catalan)
- El Equipo Plástico Official Website
- "Sixeart Gives Graffiti Style a Museum Quality" The Wall Street Journal
- "Grafitis barceloneses en la fachada de la Tate Modern de Londres" El Mundo
- "El español Sixeart - La Tate de Londres dignifica el graffiti" El Pais