César Paternosto

César Paternosto (La Plata, Buenos Aires, 1931) is a visual artist, a representative of the Latin American avant-garde tradition, evolving towards what can be called “sensitive geometry”, characterized by the delicacy of the tones and the irregularity of the lines. His work has reconnected modern art and the ancestral geometric art of the American continent. He attended drawing and painting classes from his youth, since 1956, with prof. Jorge R. Mieri. He attended courses on vision and aesthetics alike at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, but graduated in Law in 1958. After a brief career as a lawyer, he dedicated himself completely to art. At first the artist practiced expressionist-type abstract painting, which soon became more geometric, close to Joaquín Torres-García and the Madí Art Movement. At the end of the 1960s, he proposed a new vision of his pictorial work, transformed from a painting into an object, modifying the traditional frontal position of the viewer. In 1972 he traveled to Europe. He visits France, Germany and Italy. He received a painting grant from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Two years later, he travels to Paris, Madrid and London. Starting in 1977, he began to study the monumental sculpture of the Incas – he felt a fundamental impulse after having studied the semantics of the geometric decorations of the pre-Columbian cultures.