would seem to foreshadow our national tragedy. ‘They don’t foreshadow anything,’ clarifies Distéfano in a personal communication, ‘it was already happening when I made them.’ Whether they were made before or after 1976, they leave the searing trace of a whole era that would soon descend into the abyss of horror.”

In an interview, Aurelio Macchi –Distéfano’s respected and much admired teacher– recognizes in his former pupil one of the argentine sculptors worthy of being called a master.

The exhibition Cuerpo y materia. Arte argentino entre 1976 y 1985 (Body and soul. Argentine art 1976-1985) opens on 2 April at the Imago room of the Fundación OSDE, as part of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 military coup. The curator, María Teresa Constantin, chooses Nude. The same elsewhere (1977), Yellow Head (1978), Icarus I (1978), Person. Homage to Catalonia (1979/1980) and Give and Take (1982), which constitutes an important part of Distéfano’s output. It is worth mentioning, among the renowned Argentine artists who are represented in the show, Carlos Alonso, Ernesto Deira, Fermín Eguía, León Ferrari, Norberto Gómez, Carlos Gorriarena Alberto Heredia, Luis Felipe Noé, Roberto Páez, Duilio Pierri, Juan Pablo Renzi, Juan Carlos Romero, Marcia Schvartz, Oscar Smoje, Eduardo Stupía and Pablo Suárez.