César Paternosto
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b. 1931 La Plata, Argentina – lives in Segovia, Spain
After beginning his career working in an informalist mode, followed by a brief period of lyrical figuration, Paternosto first created artworks based on Geometric Abstraction in the early 1960s. By the end of this decade, his formal and theoretical explorations led the artist to push beyond the very boundaries of the medium of painting. Leaving the surface of the canvas blank, Paternosto shifted the emphasis of his artworks to their outer edges, converting his paintings into objects, and rebelling against the inherited tradition of only viewing paintings frontally. Since this breakthrough, he has remained on the vanguard of abstraction in both New York, where he lived for over four decades, and Latin America.
In addition to his career as a painter, Paternosto has studied Pre-Columbian art with academic rigor. This expertise has not only influenced his artistic practices, but has also led him to assume scholarly and curatorial roles, including the international exhibition, Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm. In 2005, the artist moved to Segovia, Spain, where, just a year prior, a major retrospective of his work had been on view at the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art. Paintings by Paternosto are found in various prestigious collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland; and the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, amongst others.
Please click for CV and Chronology
CÉSAR PATERNOSTO
Painting as Object: the Lateral Expansion. New Works.
Gallery exhibition catalogue with essay by Edward J. Sullivan; extensive illustrated chronology, 90 pages fully illustrated.
$ 20.00 + postage
César Paternosto
White/Red
This beautifully designed and printed catalogue of essays, large color plates, and illustrated chronology explores Paternosto's artistic contributions, influences and achievements over the last 4 decades.
Essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Ricardo Martín-Crosa & Toshiaki Minemura; printed on Fabriano paper by Lucini officina d'arte graffica, Milano, Italy; Hardcover, 24 color, 56 b&w illustrations, 144 pages
$40.00 + postage
César Paternosto
The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art
Challenging the notion that abstraction is a development of the modern West, Paternosto reveals its deep roots as an indigenous American tradition and shows how that tradition reverberates in the work of twentieth-century artists... In this major, paradigm-shifting book... César Paternosto offers the first comprehensive analysis of ancient Andean art - textiles, pottery, stone sculpture, and the famous lines in the Nazca desert - into one coherent whole...
César Paternosto; 272 pages; In English, University of Texas Press, hardcover, 172 photographs and illustrations
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North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas
Catalogue of the 1998-99 gallery exhibition with a major essay by the artist and historian César Paternosto and the essay: Three Andean Tunics – Color and Geometry as Metaphor by Vanessa Drake & Andres Moraga. As reviewed by Holland Cotter in the New York Times, "... the show traces a line, or rather several lines, between pre-Columbian art and 20th-century American modernism, with some eye-opening results."
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. 52 pages, 16 color plates, 42 black and white illustrations
$ 20.00 + postage
"The time of César Paternosto, the artist who challenged the eye in art," at Infobae.com
The Fine Arts presents “César Paternosto: the eccentric gaze” at JotaPosta.com
Tortosa, Alina, "Cesar Paternosto: Recent Work," Arte Al Día
Interview Elliot Bostwick Davis, Arte al Dia
Gallery artists at MoMA Exhibition
We are pleased to announce Joaquín Torres-García, María Freire and César Paternosto's participation in the following exhibition:
"Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift" at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York
On view through March 14, 2020
For more information, please click here.
Cesar Paternosto at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
We are pleased to announce César Paternosto's upcoming solo exhibition:
César Paternosto: La mirada excéntrica, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
On view October 8, 2019 - February 2, 2020
Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 8, 7 pm
For more information, please click here.
For a featured article in La Nación Newspaper (in spanish) please click here.
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. at ARCO 2019
We are pleased to announce our participation in ARCO Madrid 2019, featuring a special exhibition for "Perú en Arco":
César Paternosto: A Journey through Abstraction
BOOTH 7E09
Dates: February 27 - March 3, 2019
For a preview of our booth, please click here.
Gallery artists at Fondation Cartier
We are pleased to announce Joaquín Torres-García, Gonzalo Fonseca and Cesar Paternosto's participation in the following exhibition:
Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia,Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
From October 14, 2018 to February 24, 2019
For more information, please click here.
César Paternosto's Upcoming Exhibition
We are pleased to announce César Paternosto's upcoming exhibition:
César Paternosto, Obras Recientes, Guillermo de Osma Galería, Madrid, Spain
Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 22, 2017, 7:30 PM
On view: November 22, 2017 to January 15, 2018
For more information, please click here.
César Paternosto's Exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
We are pleased to announce Cesar Paternosto's upcoming exhibition:
César Paternosto: Hacia una pintura objetual, El Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Opening Reception: Monday, November 13, 12:30 pm
On view: November 13, 2017 to January 28, 2018
For more information, please click here.
César Paternosto's new exhibition
We are pleased to announce César Paternosto's new exhibition:
El silencio de las lineas, María Calcaterra Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1st through December 1st, 2015
Opening Reception: October 1st, 2015, 7-9pm.
For more information about the exhibition, please contact María Calcaterra by clicking here.
César Paternosto exhibition at Galerie Denise Rene
We are pleased to announce César Paternosto's exhibition:
Paternosto, Galerie Denise Rene-Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 2015, 7-9pm
For more information, please contact the gallery at info@deniserene.com
César Paternosto Exhibition Review
We are pleased to share César Paternosto's Painting as Object exhibition reviews:
Claudio Iván Remeseira in Hispanic New York
Peter Frank in Huffington Post Arts & Culture
César Paternosto, Rhythm of the Line
2019 Winter/Spring
Contemporary Abstraction: Recent Works by Gallery Artists
2013 Autumn
César Paternosto - Painting as Object: the Lateral Expansion. New Works.
2012 Autumn
Line - Plane - Volume / Sculpture: 1944-2006
2006 Winter
Works ON & OF Paper - Modern and Contemporary
2005 Autumn
Homage Geometria Sensível - 25 Years Later
2003 Spring - Summer
Modernism: Montevideo & Buenos Aires 1930-1960
2001 - 2002 Winter
César Paternosto - WHITE/RED
2001 Autumn
North and South Connected: Abstraction of The Americas
1998 Autumn
65 Years of Constructivist Wood: 1930-1995
1995 Autumn
César Paternosto - Paintings, Sculpture & Works on Paper
1995 Spring