Between 8 October and 2 February, the National Museum of Fine Arts will present the exhibition "César Paternosto: the eccentric look ", an exhibition that brings together works by the Argentine artist between '60 and '70, some more recent and unpublished site-specific installation.

Curating this exhibition (whose schedule of opening will be at 19) It corresponds to the traditional porteño director premises located on Avenida del Libertador 1473, Andrés Duprat.

Total, they will appreciate 38 painter works, sculptor and researcher born in 1931 in La Plata. It added that several of these creations will be exhibited to the public for the first time.

according to Duprat, in the artist's "abstraction means; abounds in natural and ideals that only a side view allows decoding connotations, "adding that" this is a geometry that demands a passage to the hidden order of things ".

The director of the Fine Arts argues that "the visual experience that raises production Paternosto questions the presence of the ways the world. But, also, "Leads to the limits dimensionality of painting, betting on the deconstruction of pictorial conventions with a unique proposal: work on the edges of the box ".

In 1969, Paternosto proposed the concept of "oblique vision": reversing the hierarchies of the elements of the picture, the edge of the frame attracts the interest. "At the end of the 60, I began a series of paintings that became a common direction in my work explains the artist. At that moment, It was clearly evident to me that, with an emphasis on locating it painted on the outer ends of the frame paint, and leaving blank the front surface, empty of all images, He questioned the ancestral habit of only experience the paintings from their foreheads. This situation revealed to me the possibility of lateral'What and'oblicuo' as a way of”. This strategy of painting the edges -plasmada in some of the pieces to be displayed in the sample- forcing the observer to move to achieve full image.

further, The exhibition will include pieces created in the years 70, They characterized by its geometric and minimalist imprint.

Many of the works -from sample of the artist's collection, and public and private collections, as the Fine Arts, Emilio Pettoruti Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and Eduardo Costantini collection will be exhibited to the public for the first time.

On the other hand, in the living room 40 Museum site-specific installation will be presented unpublished, entitled “deconstruction pictorial”, which it is the consummation of the painting-object artist. Exaggerating its postulates, will allow visitors to immerse themselves in one of the creations of monumental scale Paternosto: each installation view proposes many subframes as the people traveling on, reversing hierarchies to be the viewer who completes the meaning of the work. It will accompany the piece a series of works on paper by the author in recent decades.

He also exhibited in the room 38 a piece of acrylic paint on wood designed specifically for this exhibition, "Tectonic Continuity", which will become part of the collection of the Fine Arts.

After the inauguration, on Tuesday 8 October at 19, “César Paternosto: the eccentric look” It will run until 2 February 2020 in theaters 37 a 40 the first floor of the Museum. The 8 October, also open to the public sample “poetry Rubbish”, which will be covered in rooms 32 Y 33.