centro virtual de arte argentino
Menú
Página principal
 
Página principal
Un panorama del siglo XIX
 
Un panorama del siglo XIX
Un panorama del siglo XX
 
Un panorama del siglo XX
Índice de dossiers
 
Índice de dossiers
Breves biografías
 
Breves biografías
Algunos dossiers
 
 
 
 
Juan Carlos
Distéfano
by
Adriana Lauria and Enrique Llambías
January 2003
Bibliographic reference of this dossier
Versión en español 
 
The dossier on Juan Carlos Distéfano spans from the time of his beginnings
as a painter to his recent works as a sculptor, a first for the CVAA. It covers
over forty years of his work and his commitment to art and reality. A special section offers a view on his work as a graphic designer, which he carried out mostly at the Di Tella Institute.
 
Introduction | Media | Works | Design | Chronology | Anthology | Bibliography
 
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
 
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020
 
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1967
Disparador para Crónica Policial
This picture, published on the newspaper La Nación, was the trigger for Police Chronicle.
 
In June, he participates in the show Surrealismo en la Argentina (Surrealism in Argentina), held in the Di Tella Institute, with Police Chronicle and Ladder. Strangely enough, Aldo Pellegrini includes him in a group which shows a lax selection criteria, with the excuse of giving a wider vision of the movement. Distéfano’s work emerges together with other artists’ who were transitting the neo-figurative crossed by Pop art elements, such as Luis Benedit, Lea Lublin, Marta Peluffo, Jorge Demirjián, Humberto Rivas, Rómulo Macció, Jorge de la Vega, León Ferrari, exhibited along with proper surreal works by Berni, Batlle Planas, Planas Casas, Luis Barragán, Ideal Sánchez, Vicente Forte, Víctor Chab, Roberto Aizenberg, among others. Along with Juan Andralis, Norberto Coppola, and Rubén Fontana, Distéfano designs the catalogue, piece of great originality because of the combinations of typography and materials, like the covers produced in black moiré cloth, according to the poetic of the exhibition.
Alongside David Lamelas and Emilio Renart, he represents Argentina in the IX Biennial of San Pablo. The jury was formed
more
derecha
base
 
<
 
1/3
 
>