Salvador Aulestia (Barcellona, 1915 – Milano, 1994), belongs with Pablo Picasso, Juan Miro, Salvador Dali, Antoni Tapies and a few others, to the restricted group of Spanish artists who conquered a role as protagonist in the art history of the 20th century. Salvador Aulestia’s painting path led him to switch from classical expressionism to pure abstraction through figurative and surrealist abstraction, fauvism, postcubism, expressionism, before founding, in 1963, his own personal “ism”, publishing the Apotelesmatical Art Manifesto. It’s an artistic experience that goes far the aesthetic, historical and sociological concept of the work of art, as it intend to communicate to the spectator the world of mystery that is behind ordinary reality. Salvador Aulestia applied apotelesmatic in his work as painter, sculptor and also architect, musician and poet.
After his first exhibition, in 1936 in Barcelona, he held more than 70 personal exhibitions around the world and among the others, eight in the United States in the 50’s, from New York to Los Angeles. The one in Milan, Italy, at Palazzo Reale, in 1980 was also very important.
Salvador Aulestia was invited to major biennials in the world: San Paolo (Brazil), the Hispanic American ones of Barcelona, Santiago del Chile, La Habana (Cuba), New York in addition to the Venice Biennial, where he represented Spain in 1968 with is own personal room.
His works are in several museums, including the Barcelona Contemporary Art museum, Madrid and Las Palmas, the Modern Art museum of Paris and Bern, Düsseldorf Kunst Akademie and the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
Not only painter and sculptor, Salvador Aulestia published several books illustrated with his own drawings. Among the others “Tauromaquia” and “La magia del Calcio” awarded “Premio Chiavari” for literature in 1982. Fond of music, he wrote studies, impromptus and symphonic poems, like the “Requiem to Pablo Picasso” written at the death of the great master with whom Salvador Aulestia had several contacts and some divergence.