César Paternosto / Alejandro Puente: 'The group of two'. The definitions of pictorial matter in the contact with the artist

Abstract

César Paternosto and Alejandro Puente are the main exponents of the so called “sensitive geometry”, a new geometry in which they were to become adhered after a brief passage from abstract expressionism ever since 1960, by integrating the “Sí” group from the city of La Plata, that was to shake the artistic circle of Buenos Aires province's capital.

From the testimony of the artists themselves throughout interviews done in the year of 2001, an initial attempt is made to characterise the aesthetic and ideological purposes that have guided their work, lay out in the operative from very particular manifestations of the pictorial matter, their economy, activity and final character. Both shared the option for the matte finishing of their surfaces, as well as the prominence of a format –in general the textile one– whose topography is never denied and that in occasions it will seem deprived from preparation, to dialogue as one more discursive element, with its natural contribution of colour.

Said mechanic will generate certain visual qualities and in a way a series of unprecedented problematics, for the conservation and the opting for an intervention criterion that does not invalidate the author's intention. The testimony of the interviews made during the summer of 2001 will serve to synthetically go over both artists' production with regard to specifying the material and communicative particularities of each period.