William Sandberg writes about the impact he experienced when he got to know the cultural life of Buenos Aires. He mentions the solidarity of the artists who worked in groups, using as an example the artists from Otra Figuración [Another Figuration]. In the case of Rómulo Macció, he distinguishes among his main traits the different planes of consciousness, construction, and expression as a testimony of our times.

Rómulo Macció (Buenos Aires, 1931) is part of the Otra Figuración group along with Luis Felipe Noé, Jorge de la Vega, and Ernesto Deira. In 1963, upon his return from Paris, with a scholarship from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes [National Fund for the Arts], Macció obtained the International Prize from the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella with a jury made up by Jorge Romero Brest, William Sandberg, and Jacques Lassaigne. The prize consisted of 3,000 dollars. His work was already known internationally due to his participation in the Paris, São Paulo, and Venice biennials. He also obtained the Guggenheim prize at that time. In 1963, in addition to the prizes, he exhibited with the Otra Figuración at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and individually with this exhibition at Bonino. This exhibition corresponds to his series Vivir [To Live], made up of 13 paintings in which Macció explored different frame formats (round and octagonal). The painting Vivir: sin seguro de idem [To Live: Without Life Insurance] is notable in this series, as it references the murder of John F. Kennedy. The catalogue includes a text from another member of the jury, Jorge Romero Brest. The invitation of international members of the jury were one of the strategies conceived by the Centro de Artes Visuales [Visual Arts Center] of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in its policy of modernization and internationalization of Argentinean art.