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Salvador Aulestia

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Salvador Aulestia
Born(1915-11-13)November 13, 1915
Barcelona, Spain
DiedJune 1994(1994-06-00) (aged 78)
Milan, Italy
NationalitySpanish
Known forPainting, Drawing, Sculptor, Writing,
Notable workSideroploide monument
Movementapotism, expressionism, abstractism, fauvism
SpouseMaria Elisa Dall'Igna (1941)
AwardsNamed Catalan Universal by the King of Spain Juan Carlos I XXXIV Venice Biennial (Personal special qualification)

Salvador Aulestia (November 13, 1915 – June 1994), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, drawer and writer born in Barcelona (Spain).[1][2] Author of the Sideroploide, a 65-metre-long (213 ft) and 17-metre-high (56 ft) sculpture at the Barcelona harbor,[3] he earned international acclaim with exhibitions in Rome (Italy) and in the United States in the fifties and sixties until Palazzo Reale in Milan (Italy)[4] Special personal citation and pavilion at the XXXIV Venice Biennial.[5][6][7] His artistic path goes from classical expressionism to pure abstraction[8][9] through figurative and surrealist abstraction,[10][11] fauvism, postcubism,[12] expressionism, before founding, in 1963, his own personal “ism”, publishing the Apotelesmatical Art Manifesto.[13]

Sideroploide, Ferroestructura núm. 5, o Als homes de la mar, Salvador Aulestia

Biography

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Born into the families of a soldier officer, Salvador Aulestia grew up in until three years old in calle Naples y Consejo de Ciento of Barcelona, Spain. Then his family went to live in the Camp d'en Grassot (which was then the outskirts of Barcelona, now Career d'en Grassot). Already at age six the drawings are distinguished by significant clarity and synthesis for his age. At eight he began the lecture of an important private library about esotericism and magic. Later he went to live in calle Roger de Flor (Gracia). After changing several schools he was inscribed at the "Las Reales Escuelas Pias". In 1931 he entered the seminary but never leaves the artistic inspiration. In 1935, invited to a dinner, Salvador Aulestia met Garcia Lorca, of which draws a sketch that will be used later for a portrait. On July 19, 1936, began the Spanish Civil War and the seminary was closed.[14] After being involved in various vicissitudes, participate in some battles (as tenant for the PSOE) and then prisoned, he came back to Barcelona in 1940 . He inscribed at the Escuela de Artes Y Oficios de Barcelona. He continues his artistic career with a series of exhibitions that will take him around the world. After some initial contacts in the fifties, he moved permanently to Milan (Italy) in 1972, where he produced paintings, drawings, sculptures in addition to publishing numerous books until his death in 1994.[15] "...His work show a theurgical feeling with plastic expressionism and abstract tendency..."[16][17]

the Kiss (Casa Museo Francesco Cristina)

Publications

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Salvador Aulestia is author of several books:

  • —— (1948). El embarcadero de las emociones (in Spanish). Barcelona: Tipografia Studium. OCLC 31140950.
  • —— (1953). Tauromaquia (in Spanish). Olot: Aubert. OCLC 84609427.
  • —— (1954). La mano, lenguaje desconocido; Tratado moderno de quiromancia, quiromorfologia, palmotecnia y onicología (in Spanish). Barcelona: AHR. OCLC 80080635.
  • —— (1955). El enigma de su personalidad. Barcelona: AHR. OCLC 954738591.
  • —— (1957). Discurso poemita sobre la fiesta de los toros. Barcelona: Dhir.
  • —— (1967). La fiesta de los toros o la fiesta nacional española (1st ed.). Barcelona: Scholz. OCLC 15114331.[18][19]
  • —— (1975). Il Teraphim. Milan: Al Cenacolo. OCLC 800108690.
  • —— (1982). La magia del calcio. Prologue by Juan Antonio Samaranch. Rome: Società Stampa Sportiva. OCLC 1045115649. – Premio Chiavari Prize for best sport book in 1982
  • —— (1984). La Boxe, rito di affrontamento con i pugni sul ring. Milan: Il Dialogo.

References

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  1. ^ Turner, Jane, ed. (1996). The dictionary of art (Reprinted with minor corrections ed.). New York: Grove. pp. 29, 322. ISBN 9781884446009.
  2. ^ York, Frick Art Reference Library, New (1996). Spanish artists from the fourth to the twentieth century : a critical dictionary. New York, NY: Hall. ISBN 9780783880372.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Vivanco, Felipe (1995). "El pararrayo magico". La Vanguardia: 52.
  4. ^ Gutierrez, Fernando (1980). "Homenaje a Cataluna". La Vanguardia: 49.
  5. ^ Various authors (1968). Venezia Biennale 1968. p. 50.
  6. ^ Bravo, Miguel Cabañas (1996). La política artística del franquismo : el hito de la Bienal Hispano-Americana de Arte. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. p. 294. ISBN 9788400075866.
  7. ^ López, Paula Barreiro (2009). La abstracción geométrica en España, 1957-1969. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones. ISBN 9788400088750.
  8. ^ Cirlot, Lourdes (1983). La pintura informal en Cataluña, 1951-1970 (1a ed.). Barcelona: Anthropos. p. 264ss. ISBN 9788485887286.
  9. ^ Ureña, Gabriel (1982). Las vanguardias artísticas en la postguerra española, 1940-1959. Madrid: Istmo. p. 71. ISBN 9788470901201.
  10. ^ Parcerisas, Pilar (2007). Conceptualismo(S) poéticos, politicos y periféricos : en torno al arte conceptual en España, 1964-1980. Madrid: Akal. p. 34. ISBN 9788446023739.
  11. ^ Arean, Carlos Antonio (1971). 1971 BALANCE DEL ARTE JOVEN EN ESPANA. Publicaciones Espanolas. pp. 85–86.
  12. ^ Bernal, Óscar Cornago (2000). Discurso teórico y puesta en enscena en los años sesenta : la encrucijada de los "realismos". Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Inst. de la Lengua Española. p. 453. ISBN 9788400079048.
  13. ^ Di Gregorio, Maurizio (2006). "Accanto a Caravaggio, il santo dei bambini". Corriere della Sera: 61.
  14. ^ Reseña, Equipo (1977). La cultura española durante el franquismo. Bilbao: Mensajero. p. 261. ISBN 9788427110748.
  15. ^ Temolo Dall'Igna, Luca. "Salvador Aulestia". Luca Temolo Dall'Igna. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  16. ^ Various Authors. Gran Enciclopedia Catalana. Barcelona, Spain: Enciclopedia Catalana SA.
  17. ^ García, Manuel José Alonso (2003). Temas y protagonistas del pensamiento español del siglo XX : la aportación de la revista "Cruz y raya" (1933-1936) : una revista "compremetida" con la religión y/o con la política, dos ejes dialécticos sobre los que giran el resto de los temas. Melilla: Asociación de Estudios Hispanos-Africanos. ISBN 9788492177417.
  18. ^ Cortes, Juan (March 12, 1967). "Aulestia y su fiesta de los toros". La Vanguardia. p. 49. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
  19. ^ Pérez-Lizano, Manuel (2006). El Leòn como sìmbolo pintado: El Corte Inglés - Zaragoza, 1981-2006 (PDF). Zaragoza: El Corte Inglés. p. 13.
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