This conversation between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and painter, sculptor, and theorist César Paternosto was organized in conjunction with the release of Hans Ulrich Obrist & César Paternosto: Interview (Manuella Editions, 2020). Moderated by Edward J. Sullivan, this event illuminated the Argentine artist’s groundbreaking career and immense contributions to postwar abstraction.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968) is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show, “World Soup (The Kitchen Show)” in 1991, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions. Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions, and is a contributing editor to Artforum, AnOther Magazine, Cahiers D’Art, and 032C; he is a regular contributor to Mousse and System Magazine; and he writes columns for Das Magazin and Weltkunst. In 2011 he received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, and in 2015 he was awarded the International Folkwang Prize for his commitment to the arts. His recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018), and The Athens Dialogues (2018).

César Paternosto (b. 1931) is a painter, sculptor, and theorist. Paternosto lived in New York between 1967 and 2004, when he moved to Segovia, Spain. At the beginning of the 1960s he embraced abstraction at a time in which painting was still the cutting-edge art. It was in New York in 1969, however, that he conceived a radical “lateral vision” of painting that brought the pictorial notations to the side edges of the picture. Toward the end of the 1970s an encounter with the ancient arts of the Americas led him to pursue systematic research on the eccentric origins of abstraction in non-European cultures, about which he later wrote, published (The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art, 1996), and organized exhibitions (most notably, Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, 2001). All along he has continued developing pictorially, as well as intermittently in sculpture, these foundational principles of his work.

ABOUT THE LATIN AMERICAN FORUM
The Latin American Forum is a series of public lectures about the arts of the Americas, supported by ISLAA. These talks, interviews, and conversations with artists, curators, and scholars promote the advanced understanding of modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art. As a conversational space for the creation of knowledge, it aims to build bridges that allow the exchange of ideas, resources, and methods within the field. Established by ISLAA and The Institute of Fine Arts in 2011, the Latin American Forum is held regularly at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, throughout the academic year in different formats, including panel discussions, conversations, and lectures. It is coordinated by Edward J. Sullivan and organized by graduate students.

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César Paternosto

Writer in Residence

Sep 23, 2022

English

From East 78th Street to Segovia: A Morning with César Paternosto, August 2021

From East 78th Street to Segovia: A Morning with César Paternosto, August 2021

Lecture/Panel

Oct 9, 2020

The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

A Conversation: César Paternosto & Hans Ulrich Obrist

A Conversation: César Paternosto & Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist et al.

Artist Publication Support

Manuella Editions

Hans Ulrich Obrist and César Paternosto: Interview

Hans Ulrich Obrist and César Paternosto: Interview