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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.
2008
The Boy from La Boca. Homage to Cunsolo, 2008. The detail shows the logo of FORA
scratch itself. Every element is a sign of poverty, of the struggle to overcome it and to realize a dream, expressed in a melancholy manner in the figure’s eyes. The gaudy colours in which the figure is painted reflects the peculiar polychromy of the neighbourhood; both on the child’s body and on the other objects, the colours are well defined by the lines left from the casting of the work, leaving a bumpy texture at the joints, which are normally polished away, but which here contribute to accentuate elements of rusticity.
Among his projected works, Distéfano is preparing another homage to Argentina painting, this time as a tribute to Ramón Gómez Cornet, starting from a figure of his work La urpila (The little dove), from the collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
