The sculptor Berberi takes up residence at the Amwaj centre

The day after the inauguration, L'Orient devotes a report to the new exhibition hall at the Amwaj centre: 27 bronzes « with unexpected harmonies », cast in an alloy that the artist calls « old gold », which can be enlarged to order, and 19 watercolours, pastels and gouaches. Asked about his method, Berberi explains: « I do not work the material straight off. To arrive at conceiving a sculpture, I begin by making a sketch... » The article stresses the vocation as a « discoverer » of young artists that Berberi intends to give to this venue, while keeping for himself a studio for busts and portraits, which has remained in contact with the public, far from the intense artistic life that Beirut knew in the 1960s and 1970s.