Salvador Aulestia Biography
Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona, 1915 – Milan, 1994), belongs with Pablo Picasso, Juan Mirò, Salvador Dalì, Antoni Tapies and a few others, to that small group of Spanish authors who have conquered a leading place in the history of twentieth-century art . His pictorial process, in continuous evolution, led him to move from classical figurative, to pure abstract, to figurative abstraction, to Fauvism, to post-cubism, to expressionism, to surrealist abstraction, before founding, in 1963, his current: apotism, publishing the Manifesto of apotelesmatic art. It is an artistic experience that goes beyond the aesthetic, historical and sociological concept of the work of art, since it tends to communicate to the viewer the world of mystery that lies behind ordinary reality. Salvador Aulestia applied apotism not only in his activity as a painter, designer and sculptor, but also in that of an architect, musician and poet. After his first exhibition, in 1936, in Barcelona, he held more than 70 solo exhibitions around the world, including, in the 1950s, eight in the United States, between New York and Los Angeles. In Italy, he held a solo exhibition in 1980, in Milan, at Palazzo Reale.