"SIXEART" (Badalona, Barcelona, 1975). "Studies of an unemployed dog", 2010. Mixed media on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 100 x 73 cm; 104 x 77 cm (frame). Sixeart or Sixe Art, Sergio Hidalgo Paredes, is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist. He began his artistic career in the eighties, painting graffiti in the streets of Barcelona. A decade later, in the mid-nineties, he began to experiment with sculpture and painting, until in 1998 he saw the need to open his own studio, which has allowed him to define himself as a visual artist. Sixeart expresses with his work a universe of his own through various disciplines; from his beginnings, his artistic language has evolved to become what it is today: an abstract universe of color endowed with forms and symbologies, which breathes simplicity and complexity at the same time. His pictorial work is a balanced mixture of figurative and abstract, extremely rich in sensitivity. Sixeart starts from his experiences in the urban landscape as the main creative stimulus; his days in his city, Barcelona, the melancholy of the city, his concerns about evolution and its consequences, genetic manipulation, a romanticism for the world that is left behind, the images that are lost in time... all this configures his personal plastic universe. This artist belongs to El Equipo Plástico, together with Nuria Mora, Nano4814 and Eltono, and since 2000 he has held exhibitions in Spain, Germany, France, Italy, the United States, Belgium, Denmark, England, Brazil, Peru and Mexico. His latest exhibitions include "New World - Intercontinental Transmutation" (A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels, 2010), "From Chillida to Sixeart" (Mayoral Gallery, Barcelona, 2009), "Warriors" (N2 Gallery, Barcelona, 2009). Also, in 2008 he exhibited with Blu, Faile, JR, Nunca and Os Gémeos at the Tate Modern in London, in the exhibition "Street Art".