Paternosto, César

César Paternosto (1931) was born in La Plata, Argentina. A painter and sculptor, he has been residing in New York since 1967. In 2004, he moved to Segovia, Spain, where he presented a solo exhibition at the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Tomás Llorens. In 1969, Paternosto began a series of works where the front of the piece, white and uniform at first glance, did not reveal an image. The geometric artist started painting on the wide edges of the canvas.

In 1972, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, among other grants. 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 in Boston; the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland; the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, the Baroness Carmen Thyssen-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 Collections in Venezuela; the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA), the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), and the Museum of Modern Art (MAMBA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Thyssen Museum in Madrid, Spain, among many others.