His friend and collaborator from his youth, Obdulio Gambaro, Griselda’s brother, passes away.

He produces Under the Other’s Skin (three quotations), work in red resin in which base lies a reaped head which features refer back to Aztec imagery, culture in which decapitations of enemies were carried out as a way of taking war trophies. The work, whose composition reminds one of The Muse by Brancussi, strikes the viewer as brutal due to its loud colours and fierce features. It shows harmony with the tragedy that it commemorates: the murder of the young Swedish woman, Dagmar Hagelin. There is a pre-Columbian poem engraved on the base as well as the fragment of Nunca más (Never Again) that describes Dagmar’s death. Distéfano describes that the work originated from a railway brake close to his atelier, which degraded materiality suggested to him the passing of time. One day, he thought of putting a head on top of that object and, during the development of the work, he evoked some Aztec sculptures of warriors dressed with the skin of the enemy in the belief that they could obtain their strength this way. This is the reason for the title of the piece.

In September, he participates in the show Veinte x veinte (Twenty by Twenty), organised by the Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte that takes place at Fundación Banco Patricios. His works –among which are The Insatiable One– are shown together with