“COLOR, FORMA Y MATERIA”

“This new exhibition, entitled Color, Forma y Materia is a reflection on a whole world I have been creating over the last years through painting, sculpture, and weaving. It provides an overview of my work with the aim of delving deep into a personal universe born of a thousand experiences and texts”.

SIXE PAREDES

In his works one notes heavy influence from Andean and Mesoamerican cultures, as well as from many other ancestral cultures, from thousand-year-old cosmologies of various origins across the ancient world, belying a profound interest in the connections existing between them—blending myths and legends, in a whirl of fluid colour, wisdom, and mysticism. And of course, Mother Nature, present in nearly every work, is yet another major influence. Indeed, Sixe’s pieces address themes and concepts that are always linked to Mother Nature, the cosmos and spirituality. With these reflective, hypnotic, profound works, the artist creates a language that points to various spatial dimensions and directions. Revolving around a single point, our perspective of them changes, expanding our understanding and vision of space and suggesting countless inspiring possibilities. This is mediated through multiple symbolic representations that interact on different planes and invite the viewer into Sixe’s world—at once unique and universal. It calls to mind an altered state of consciousness, a trance of colours and shapes embedded in a luminous chromatic spectrum, illuminating contrasts and vibrant energy.

The artist, drawing on a menagerie of organic or animal forms and ancestral figures, not only communicates in his own aesthetic language and symbols to explore the primordial realm, but—through painting, weaving, and sculpture—also confronts us with processes known to antiquity and still active today, because they are intrinsic to humanity, to the deepest, universal elements at the heart of being human, across time and space.

It is interesting to observe, in works such as those of the artist, elements of Incan cultures juxtaposed with contemporary languages—and further, to note how these cultures and their world views permeate European identities. A bridge is built between the precolonial ancestral past and the European present.

As Sixe says, ‘today, in the world we live in, we are drowned in predigested images that invite no reflection at all. On the contrary, they leave us mentally numb, lead us to stop thinking, and cause us to forget to use our innate imagination, our creative mind.’ Using a language replete with universal symbols and colour, through works that underscore the power symbols have to spark change and their important role as tools for remembering, ensuring continuity, and forging unity, Sixe Paredes—in the pieces selected for this exhibition—invites us to reflect, to think creatively and not slavishly, reviving our most ancestral consciousness, now dormant but engraved deeply within us. Because in a world that applauds individualism, the artist reminds us of what unites and connects us, what we all share and hold in common.

Laura García-Borreguero Gómez. Antropóloga Social y Cultural.