“Leaving the frontal surface blank, empty of any image, implied questioning the ancestral habit of only experiencing [paintings] head-on and uncovering the possibility of a ‘lateral’ and ‘oblique’ mode of looking,” Paternosto explained. He applied color only to the sides of the canvas to encourage viewers to reorient their gaze. The Hidden Order functions as an investigation of painting’s lateral edges while inviting viewers to surround the work, emphasizing its object-like quality.
Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift, October 21, 2019–March 14, 2020
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César Paternosto
Argentine, born 1931 2 works onlineSitting in his studio in downtown New York in 1969, the Argentine painter César Paternosto experienced a breakthrough. At the time, new modes of experimental art were pushing beyond the boundaries of painting and sculpture , interrogating to the point of destruction the very value of these categories.
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Galería Durban, Caracas
1996, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas
2017, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Exhibition history
New York, Denise Rene Gallery, "Cesar Paternosto", January 1973
New York, Center for Interamerican Relations (now Americas Society), "Cesar Paternosto: Paintings 1969-1980", 1981
Caracas, Galeria Durban-Segnini, "Cesar Paternosto", 1993
Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, "Geo-metrías Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros", March 14 - May 19, 2003
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, "La Invencion concreta: Colleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", 2013
MoMA Exh. #2424: "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift", 3rd Floor, 3 East, October 21, 2019 - September 12, 2020
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