Aurelio Flores

Born in Brazil in 1953, he is a self-taught sculptor and jeweler, artist and craftsman, that creates and makes his most specific tools.

Each sculpture is for me a discovery and a surprise. Had discovered the sculpture when I was a child made me know the world under the optics of very particular people and through special materials. I have for principle to respect the materials that I use and for this I make experiences while I am sculpting each material, I observe and I manipulate each material for a long time. I personally work in all of the processes of my sculptures, this is my inheritance of family. To sculpt is for me, to discover and to respect the natural curves and the tensions of each material.

Although this process seems simple it demands a lot and is very complex, demands years of research and experiments as well as physics and mathematics knowledge, being still necessary, to the type of work that I execute, to use special tools as watchmaker lathe and tools of high precision, that?s why I create and I execute many of my tools. Many of my works are minimalists, even beeing abstracts of figuratives, and I perceived as years goes by how difficult it is to transform into sculptures my minimalists and reductive...

He is a self-taught sculptor, in his childhood, his first and decisive references where: his paternal grandfather Leopoldo Becker Fl? that used to give him wooden knives artistically sculpted while he counted him hunted histories in his annual visits, and his maternal grandfather Armando Augusto Pereira, that was the first brazilian to weld aluminum, and a master craftsman of multiples talents; they had been and they represent constant presence in the sculptures and "luminous objects" that he creates.
He started to make sculptures very early in his life ,when he had eight years old he started to modelate in clay the busts of the main personages of the history of Brazil that he saw in encyclopedias in his house. He also fused the lead, that was spilled in cans with frozen water, transforming it in gothic cathedrals with the thermal impact.
He started making wood sculptures when he was fifteen years old, while he still lived in the south of Brazil, then in 1975, he moved to SPaulo and was when he made contacts and started to attend the atelier of free creation, located in the house of the great painter, print maker and sculptor Lasar Segall.
Sao Paulo was the place where he had a close contact with art and artist...