César Paternosto (1931) was born in La Plata, Argentina. The painter and sculptor resided in New York since 1967. In 2004 he moved to Segovia, Spain, the year in which he presented an individual exhibition at the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art curated by Tomás Llorens.
In 1969 Paternosto began a series of works where at first glance the front of the work, white and uniform, did not reveal an image. The geometric artist began to paint on the wide edges of the frame. In 1972 he obtained the Guggenheim scholarship for painting among other scholarships.
In 2010, architects Rafael Moneo and Pedro Elcuaz proposed to intervene in the supporting structure of the new arrival hall at Atocha station in Madrid.
Paternosto’s planes of color appear and disappear as the traveler or viewer walks.
He recently exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) in Buenos Aires; in the individual and retrospective exhibition called The Eccentric Look (October 2019 – February 2020). Furthermore, in 2017 he exhibited at the Thyssen – Bornemisza Museum in Madrid (Spain) in the exhibition called Towards an object gaze in which a dialogue was established between works by artists from the museum’s collection (November, 2017 – January, 2018). .
His work is included in public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), the Guggenheim and The Ford Foundation in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Baroness Carmen Thyseen-Bornemisza Collection and the Norman Foster Collection in Madrid; the Diana and Bruce Halle Collection in Arizona; the Patricia Phelps Cisneros and Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection in Venezuela, the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA), Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), Museum of Modern Art (MAMBA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thyssen Museum of Madrid Spain; among many others.