Pretty Cool People Interviews - Sixeart

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Like so many talented artists, Sixeart started out spraycanning the streets in his hometown Barcelona, back in the Eighties. These days however the vivid paintings of Sixeart are on display in international galleries and museums. Last year for instance he made a gigantic mural on the façade of Tate Modern in London.

The artist has no formal education, but being an autodidact he sees as a big advantage now: art school can teach you technique, but the danger of your own personal style being destroyed is clear and present, according to the artist.

Talking about style, his is exceptionally colourful and unique in depicting a psychedelic, comic-like universe full of strange characters and abstract patterns. As he states on his website his work can be classified in 3 categories: Bad children with fringe, Circuits and Mutating Animals.

We talked to Sixeart who actually bears a striking resemblance to Weird Al Yankovic - in his studio in Barcelona, where his seems most happy nowadays. Sixeart explains the ideas behind his paintings, sculptures and older work in which some intimate parts of his ex-girlfriend are included. Oh la la

Pretty Cool Crew: Commissioning Editor for SubmarineChannel: Geert van de Wetering, Camera: Niels de Roos, Interview, Sound & Editing: Ben de Loenen.

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[nimo1bcn]

ME FLIPA SIXE vaya personaje

[blacknanoosh]

very cool artist

[ricoadventuravideos]

good stuff

[ge1org1e]

More important to be expressive than original as an artist i think.

[cantastickers]

the real artists doesnt study arts, they just are artists

[balcelo1920]

buen trabajo me gusta mucho to estila / i love his style " it is somewhat original... keep it up.

[paldam101]

So what, he should have gone to artschool? his style has come out of the supercreative style of las calles de Barca, and frankly I have never seen anything quite like it. The old "has been done in the sixties bla bla bla" Is getting really old and tiresome. I used to go to artschool. We went on a expedition to Kassel during the dokumenta expo and the teachers kept going "this has been done in the sixties" All the time totally ruining my experience of the art there. That was then and this is now!

[sakmi69]

but you never know that, so who are you to judge????

[SugahOPonah]

Plenty actually find their own style in artschool. His style isn't that original, been done before in the 60's.

He would have learnt that in artschool.

[XYoungManX]

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