Distéfano exhibits the monumental piece Direct Action II, as part of the numerous group of Argentine artists which included, besides those already mentioned, Xul Solar, Alberto Greco, Julio Le Parc, Lucio Fontana, Oscar Bony, Roberto Jacoby, Eduardo Costa, Enio Iommi, Gyula Kosice, Luis Fernando Benedit, Graciela Carnevale, Ricardo Carreira, Roberto Jacoby, Eduardo Costa, Eduardo Favario, Carmelo Arden Quin, all of whom share the show with Latin Americans such as Siqueiros, Orozco, Cruz-Diez, Gego, Soto, Lygia Clark, Oiticica, Reverón, Luis Camnitzer, Antonio Días, Cildo Meireles, Barradas, Torres García, Rod Rothfuss, Mira Schendel, Gonzalo Fonseca, Julio Alpuy, and José Balmes, among others.

In December he takes part in the show Entre el Silencio y la Violencia (Between silence and violence), curated by Mercedes Casanegra at the Fundación Telefónica de Buenos Aires, with his works Procedure II and Yellow II, both from 1972, and preliminary drawings for Yellow, Smoke and Spider’s Web. This exhibition is an expanded version of the one presented by the Fundación ArteBa at Sotheby’s, New York, in November 2003, in which Distéfano was not included. The exhibition featured other renowned contemporary artists such as Norberto Gómez, Víctor Grippo, Alberto Heredia, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Oscar Bony, Luis Fernando Benedit, Roberto Elía, León Ferrari, Liliana Porter, Horacio Zabala, Juan Carlos Romero, Graciela Sacco, Jorge Macchi and Cristina Piffer. Casanegra states that: