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"TERAPHIM"
Salvador Aulestia's Teraphim exhibition and simultaneous video presentation of the Teraphim exhibition held in front of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" on Corso Magenta in Milan in 1975.
The origin of the Teraphim is very ancient and the name should be traced back to Jewish tradition.
The aesthetic aspect of the Teraphim is important because, as Edward Bulwer Lytton says, ignorance shuns light, but it is a beauty responds to the aesthetic standards of the time and civilizations that made them.
Teraphim were figurines that, animated by their dwellers, drawn to them by their shape and the materials that made them up, answered questions either by emitting a voice, tilting on their base plinths, or spinning dizzily around their own axis.
In the Teraphim, there is no worship or adoration; it is an object that obeys a technique that we can call kabbalistic, hermetic, energetic or metaphysical. It is not a matter of faith or devotion. A Teraphim is in this case a perfect, apotelesmatic work: an earthly manifestation of transcendent archetypes and serving as a "dwelling place" for higher powers.
Several aspects are distinguished in Teraphim:
a - a material medium for creating its form, preferably clay.
b - an aesthetic canon relating to an era, school or system.
c - an energetic, magical and vital agent called a dweller incorporated in the Teraphim
d - an act of consecration, performed at the appropriate time. Consecration that does not pay attention to any dogma being part of an art and technique.
Salvador Aulestia made his Teraphim following all the indications necessary for their functionality, yet actualizing them from an aesthetic and artistic point of view according to his own era and style.
All of Salvador Aulestia's sculptures, including the imposing "Sideroploide" a 65-meter-long by 17-meter-high iron sculpture found in the port of Barcelona, are Teraphim, although not always "activated" for that purpose.
- Creator:Salvador Aulestia (1915 - 1994, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1978ca
- Dimensions:Height: 20.48 in (52 cm)Width: 9.85 in (25 cm)Depth: 9.06 in (23 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milano, IT
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Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona, 1915 - Milan, 1994) belongs with Pablo Picasso, Juan Mirò, Salvador Dali, Antoni Tapies and a few others, to that small group of Spanish authors who have won a leading place in the history of twentieth-century art. His ever-evolving pictorial iter has taken him from classical figurative to pure abstract, figurative abstraction, fauvisme, postcubism, expressionism, and surrealist abstraction, before founding, in 1963, his own current: Apotism, publishing the Manifesto of Apotelesmatic Art. This is an artistic experience that goes beyond the aesthetic, historical and sociological concept of the work of art, as it tends to communicate to the viewer the world of mystery behind ordinary reality. Salvador Aulestia has applied Apotism not only in his work as a painter, draftsman and sculptor, but also in his work as an architect, musician and poet. Exhibitions. After his first exhibition, in 1936, in Barcelona, he held more than 70 solo shows around the world, including, in the 1950s, eight in the United States, between New York and Los Angeles. In Italy, he held, in 1980, a solo show, in Milan, at the Palazzo Reale. He participated in events with the leading artists of his generation. Biennials. Aulestia has been invited to major biennials around the world. Among them, the one in São Paulo ( Brazil), the Spanish-American ones in Barcelona, New York and Paris, as well, of course, as the one in Venice, where, he also represented Spain, in 1968, with a solo room. His works can be found in several museums, including the Museums of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Madrid and Las Palmas, the Museums of Modern Art in Paris and Bern, the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf and the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. The world's largest iron sculpture. Appreciated as a sculptor, Aulestia created, between 1963 and 1965, what is still the world's largest iron sculpture, "El Sideroploide," 65 meters long and 17 meters high, placed in the port of Barcelona. It should be noted that, unlike most artists, Aulestia did not limit himself to drawing, but forged, with the help of workers at the Port of Barcelona, the work himself. Not only a painter and sculptor, Salvador Aulestia, an architect, designed several public and private buildings in Barcelona and the rest of Catalonia. These include the Infanta Isabel building, a 400-apartment palace with 10 entrances, in which are as many of his two-meter-tall sculptures. He has created sets for the following plays: his friend Eugene Ionesco's Amadeus, de Capmany's Vent de Garbi, and Ibsen's The Idiot. He has published several books in Spain and Italy. Others include "Tauromaquia," the Teraphim and "The Magic of Football," Chiavari Prize in 1982. Appointed Universal Catalan by King Juan Carlos of Spain, Salvador Aulestia has lived in Milan since 1972 where we remember the great exhibition at Palazzo Reale.
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