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The exhibition focuses on the evolution and continuity of Paternosto’s idea from his early lateral vision canvases through his most recent works.
César Paternosto (b. 1931, La Plata, Argentina) is a painter, sculptor, and theorist whose work has made important contributions to postwar abstraction. Paternosto lived in New York between 1967 and 2004, later moving to Segovia, Spain. He embraced abstraction in the 1960s at a time when painting was still the cutting-edge art. His encounter with the ancient arts of the Americas at the end of the 1970s led him to pursue systematic research on the origins of abstraction in non-European culture and later write and publish his groundbreaking publication The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art, 1996. Later on, he organized exhibitions such as Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, 2001 at the Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, an exhibition focused on the emergence of an abstraction born of a cross-fertilization with the indigenous arts of the Americas, and Towards an objectual painting, at the National Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. All along he has continued developing pictorially and sculpture the foundational principles of his work.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
