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Juan Carlos
Distéfano
Distéfano
by
Adriana Lauria and Enrique Llambías
January 2003
January 2003
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.
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.
1999
"We artists are completely harmless", interview with Distéfano published in the newspaper Clarín on 22 August 1999
technical-conceptual virtuosity which characterizes his approach to the medium and the vulgar industrial material with which he renders it [...]”. 
He takes part in the show Homenaje a Ignacio Colombres (Homage to Ignacio Colombres) at the Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina (CTA), Buenos Aires, between 17 August and 3 September.
He receives the Premio Arlequín to the Artist of the Year, awarded by the Fundación Pettoruti, which comes with the purchase of a work for the value of $ 20.000. The judges are: Nelly Perazzo, Jorge López Anaya, Osvaldo Svanascini and Fermín Fèvre.
Together with such artists as Norberto Gómez, Roberto Aizenberg, William Tucker, Magdalena Abakamowicz, Jenny Holzer, among others, he is asked by the Comisión Pro-Monumento a las víctimas del terrorismo de Estado (Commission for a memorial to the victims of state terrorism) to contribute a sculpture to the Parque de la Memoria (Memory
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