César Paternosto - Painting as Object: the Lateral Expansion. New Works. 2012 Autumn
César Paternosto - Painting as Object: the Lateral Expansion. New Works.
In the late 1960s, César Paternosto moved the emphasis in his paintings to the outer side edges of the canvas leaving the front blank. By shifting attention to the sides he was questioning the old custom of viewing paintings from the front only. As he expanded the range of the pictorial field to the sides, the three dimensionality of the painting turned it into an object.
Painting as Object: The Lateral Expansion, concentrates on the evolution and continuity of César’s idea from his early lateral vision canvases through his most recent works.
Edward J. Sullivan’s catalogue introduction and his thought provoking exchange with the artist in their e-mail dialogue bring significant insights to the innovative concept of painting as object.
Paternosto’s thoughts are succinctly put in his essay Painting as Object: Geometric Forms and Lateral Expansions; and his extensive updated chronology make this catalogue a substantial document of record.
After living in New York for almost four decades, Paternosto moved to Spain in 2004 where his work received great appreciation following his retrospective exhibition at the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art in Segovia. He continues to work and live in Segovia.
An exhibition catalogue with essay by Edward J. Sullivan is available.
César Paternosto
b. 1931 La Plata, Argentina – lives in Segovia, Spain
Please click for CV and Chronology
César Paternosto, Rhythm of the Line
2019 Winter/Spring
Contemporary Abstraction: Recent Works by Gallery Artists
2013 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