Le Réveil6 May 1985
Inauguration of the permanent exhibition hall
On 8 May 1985, at the Amwaj centre in Jounieh, Antoine Berberi opens his first permanent exhibition hall: 27 bronzes and 19 sketches.
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Press Review
Four decades of press coverage of Antoine Berberi, from the Lebanese and French press.
L'Orient9 May 1985
The sculptor Berberi takes up residence at the Amwaj centre
« The faith that animates metal »: L'Orient looks back on the opening of the permanent exhibition hall, between monumental bronzes and a vocation as a mediator.
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Al-Anwar17 May 1985
The sculptor in front of a bronze sculpture
A short photographic notice, slipped between two war dispatches, presents the bronze group « L'Orchestre » (The Orchestra).
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Lebanese press18 May 1985
A fine gesture: a bronze given to Raymond Gebara
Antoine Berberi gives the man of the theatre Raymond Gebara a bronze sculpture, the day after his decoration by France.
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An-Nahararound 14 September 1985
Sculptures that pause for every passing gaze
Third newspaper to cover the Amwaj inauguration, illustrated with a photo of the group « L'Orchestre » (The Orchestra).
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Lebanese pressaround 15 September 1985
Berberi's sculptures and paintings at Amwaj, a blend of old and modern
Three bronzes spread across a full page, between archaic strength and monumental ambition.
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An-Nahar Arabe et International26 September 1985
Twenty years of sculpting celebrities and heroes
Three works on the front page: « L'Orchestre » (The Orchestra), « La marche des héros » (The March of the Heroes) and « Le Violoncelliste » (The Cellist).
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Al-Anwar13 January 1988
Antoine Berberi Adopts Polyester
Faced with the « vigils of death and waiting » of the war, the artist explores a new material: polyester resin.
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Al-Amal17 October 1987
Antoine Berberi, a Glory Among the Glories of Lebanon
A lyrical portrait retracing the artist's childhood and training, up to the monument dedicated to the martyred officer Samir Chartouni.
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Sculpture column14 May 1985
Poetry of Matter
« I am beautiful, O mortals, like a dream of stone »: from Baudelaire to the first prize at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, the career of a sculptor-founder.
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An-Nahar20 November 1995
A Lebanese Statue for Rachid Karamé
Without an official ceremony, a new bronze statue of Rachid Karamé, cast entirely in Dbayeh, replaces the old one, judged unworthy of his memory.
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L'Orient-Le Jour19 August 1999
Prize for the Best Statue Representing the Resistance
Antoine Berberi wins first prize in a competition organised by the Order of Engineers, ahead of seventeen other projects.
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Lebanese press16 August 1999
The Winners of the Design Competition for the Resistance Monument
Arabic-language version of the competition announcement: first prize to Antoine Berberi among eighteen projects.
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As-Safir19 August 1999
The Winners of the Standard Design Competition for the Resistance
Third report on the same competition, confirming Antoine Berberi's first prize.
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Al-Ousbouh Al-Arabilate 1980s
Antoine Berberi's sculptures, mirroring the movement of salt and wind
One piece in particular stands out: « Le Retour des frères absents » (The Return of the Absent Brothers).
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La République de Seine-et-Marne20 April 1998
Barbizon: music, dreams and architecture
At Galerie 23 in Barbizon, Berberi exhibits alongside a painter-musicologist and a painter, around his passion for music.
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First Lookundated (no. 15)
Eloquence of clay and bronze
« Soft, malleable, it seems in no way to oppose the will »: Berberi on clay, between Paris and Beirut.
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L'Orient-Le Jour12 October 2000
A « resistant » in his art foundry
Natacha Sikias traces the artist's career, from Youssef Ghossoub's studio to the foundry in Dbayeh that he set up in 1967.
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Lebanese press13 December 2001
Visual artists exhibit at Galerie Sadr
« The tireless quest for the most beautiful »: Berberi among five artists brought together for a group exhibition.
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L'Orient-Le Jour29 April 2003
Antoine Berberi, modeller of monumental forms
Zéna Zalzal goes back to the childhood spark: a neighbouring sculptor glimpsed from a balcony in Achrafieh.
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Cultural magazineundated
Gazes before the sculptor's monument
Interview: on the links between Lebanese and French sculpture, national memory and a coastal monument project.
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L'Hebdo Magazine6 June 2003
Antoine Berberi, Quite a Passionate Man!
« Life has spoilt me »: the founding anecdote of a bust sculpted in two hours, at thirteen, without lessons or a model.
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The Daily Star1 September 2004
Heritage monuments suffer neglect
« Some people have never tasted independence »: the statue of Béchara El-Khoury is still waiting for its place, and Berberi reveals his dream of a Martyrs' statue.
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L'Orient-Le Jour22 October 2002
Antoine Berberi's Bronzes at Paul
Some fifteen bronzes tucked into the nooks of a bakery in Gemmayzé, including « the famous Elissa ».
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« Art and Thought » column2004
Berberi's Sculptures at the Feriké Festival
Nazih Khater praises five bronzes exhibited on the fringes of the festival, from « Le Pianiste (The Pianist) » of 1982 to « La Dame au masque (The Lady with the Mask) » of 2004.
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Al-Liwaa22 July 2004
« Hariri Commissioned Me to Make the Two Statues »
One statue completed and installed, the other still stored in the studio for lack of an official decision.
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Jaridat Al-Balad25 May 2006
Antoine Berberi at the Galerie Surface Libre
More than seventy works, sculpture and painting combined, including several versions of the monument to Samir Chartouni.
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Lebanese Army Magazinearound November 2011
The Monument to General Khalil Kenaan
A 75-centimetre bronze bust, unveiled at the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the general, deputy chief of staff of the army.
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