Untitled

Alejandro Puente Argentinian
1967
Not on view
Puente was at the fore of a group of artists from La Plata, Argentina, who shared with American Minimalist and Conceptual artists of the 1960s a devotion to the rigorous exploration of systems of color and form. This composition reflects Puente’s preference for the primary colors as they appear unmixed on a color wheel. Arranged together, four equilateral triangles make up a single, larger triangle, with the three primary colors radiating out from an anchor in black. An even white strip runs along two sides of each triangle, suggesting a state of incompleteness while also creating the perimeter of the overall composition. As this composite work suggests, the abstract vocabularies practiced by La Plata artists effectively abandoned traditional painting by embracing the shaped canvas, the support assuming its own identity in space as an object.

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Object Information
  • Title: Untitled
  • Artist: Alejandro Puente (Argentinian, La Plata 1933–2013 Buenos Aires)
  • Date: 1967
  • Medium: Acrylic on canvas
  • Dimensions: 59 1/16 × 69 5/16 in. (150 × 176 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2016
  • Object Number: 2016.33a–d
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Alejandro Puente
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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