Eloquence of clay and bronze

Portrait presenting Berberi as based between Paris and Beirut, for whom sculpture remains « his mainstay » without excluding gouache, pastel and watercolour. The article mentions more than a quarter of a century of creations in bronze, plaster and wood, exhibited in Europe as in the Orient. Three works are reproduced with their dimensions: « L'Offrande » (The Offering), bronze, 41×29 cm; « Pyramide » (Pyramid), bronze, 35×20 cm; and « Les Orgues de la guerre » (The Organs of War), polyester resin, 65×50 cm, the last photographed outdoors in the snow. Closing quotation from the artist on clay: « Soft, malleable, it seems in no way to oppose the will... it is water before ice, the pour of the metal before its weight... »