Alejandro Puente (La Plata, 1933- Buenos Aires, 2013), studied in La Plata with Héctor Cartier at the Facultad de Arte. He joined the Grupo Sí , whose first expositions took place in 1961 in the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de La Plata and later in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. During the sixties, he had solo exhibitions in various galleries in Buenos Aires, including Bonino, Ruth Benzacar and Lirolay, where he presented together with César Paternosto La geometría sensible in 1964. He participated in the first Premios Braque (1963), the Premio Ver y Estimar (1964), the Premio Nacional del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella (1966) and the multitude show Homenaje al Viet-nam de los artistas plásticos, organized by León Ferrari and Carlos Gorriarena in the Van Riel Gallery (1966). In 1967 he received a Guggenheim Grant, with which he traveled to New York, where he resided for four years. Before he left, he was part of the exposition Más allá de la geometría at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella and in its North American version, Beyond Geometry, at the Center for Inter-American Relations in New York (1968), and he was also included in Latin American Artists at the Delaware Art Center (1968). In 1970 he was invited to participate in “Information” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From there, he went on to exhibit in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Cuba, Japan, and China. In 1985 he was chosen to represent Argentina in the San Pablo Biennial. The Fundación Konex honored him in 1992 and 2004. He was an Académico de Número of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes. He lived and worked in Buenos Aires.