Salvador Aulestia

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.

[13] 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.

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] Salvador Aulestia is author of several books: