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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.
2002
Invitation to the show Las Camitas, Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2002
On 4 August the relief Every day illustrates Albert Castillo’s short story “La cosa” (The thing), on the first page of the Culture supplement of the newspaper La Nación.
A number of his works as a designer are included in the show Diseño Gráfico Argentino 1960-1980 (Argentine graphic design 1960-80), curated by Ricardo Blanco at the Buenos Aires Museo de Arte Moderno.
In September, he participates in the show Arte y política en los ’60 (Art and politics in the ‘60s), curated by Alberto Giudici, at the Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires. The works he enters are Fist and Head (1968), Procedure II and Yellow II (1972), The Mute (1973) and Jellyfish (1968/1998). The show examined the explicit links between art and politics in Argentina between 1958 and 1973, reviewing critical realisms charged with expressionist eloquence –Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Carlos Alonso, Grupo Espartaco, Grupo Neofiguración, Distéfano, Alberto Heredia, Antonio Seguí, Carlos Gorriarena, Diana Dowek– and the conceptual
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