Parque España de Rosario, featuring street posters, brochures, and catalogues from Rubén Fontana’s collection, which gathers the items produced by Distéfano and his colleagues at the Department of Graphic Design and Photography of the Di Tella Institute.

The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, USA, acquires Direct Action III.

He makes The Boy from La Boca. Homage to Cunsolo, a sculpture in reinforced polyester resin with hessian cloth incrustations, completed with a sort of mise-en-scene which has for background the reproduction of a painting by Víctor Cunsolo representing a typical view of the street corner La Vuelta de Rocha, in La Boca. The large-scale reproduction is done in greys, and the image is blown up, which makes it look blurry, almost ghostly. In front of it is the figure of a boy in shorts holding a boat like the ones that appear in Cunsolo’s paintings. The character is sitting on a step reminiscent of the high kerbstones in the La Boca neighbourhood, built that way because of the flooding that used to bedevil the area when the river rose high. The base has a series of reliefs depicting plants that grow in the street, a drain, a bottle of beer – with an old label that situates the scene in the 1920s – the logo of the Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA, Regional Argentine Workers Federation ) – one of the first workers’ unions organized by anarchist Italian immigrants – and a stray dog lying on its back in order to