Catalogue cover of Primeras culturas argentinas. Piedras, cerámicas y metales prehistóricos (First Argentine Cultures. Pre-historic stones, ceramics and metals)

with tempera grassa, a new and precise elaboration that channels and updates the neo-figurative expressions. With regard to the technical procedure with which he produces his works, a description appears in Primera Plana:

“[...] after modelling the relief in clay, there follows a plaster cast, of polyester and glass veil are poured, then the piece is mounted on a frame, and new layers of polyester and glass are added, and later colour pigments.”

Homage is a polychromed relief yet it has the definition and the spatial quality of a sculpture. He recreates the famous Van Gogh’s oil painting, Wheatfield with Crows, respecting the composition both in its rhythmic cadences of enveloping curves as in the chromatic distribution. He also highlights the central path that marks the axis of the work and causes the wedge in which the horizon line plunges. But here, a recumbent body – maybe Van Gogh’s– merges with and at the same time constitutes the yellow wheat field itself. This will be one of the tributes from Distéfano to Van Gogh, for whom he feels as