Villa Piolín, Negra y blanca, La casa del sastre and La casa de la modista deepened Berni’s research on marginal neighborhoods, which he also documented through photographs. About this series, exhibited in September at Galería Serra, Buenos Aires, the artist wrote in the catalog: “... the realism in these landscapes is not ‘representative' in the way of naturalists but by means of plastic equivalences, that is to say, color, pictorial paste, texture, and arabesque motivate chromatic shapes and concretize reality in their tactile presence. The stagnant waters, the burlap covered with lime, the boards of empty drawers out of use, the rusted iron plates, the tar ointed clothes or the fronts smeared with remains of ship paintings which the owners of some grottoes at the Maciel island use, here reach their significance”.

Berni also employed thick impastos in La res and La carnicería, with which he attained the strong expressiveness demanded by the treatment of this subject, consecrated by artistic tradition from Rembrandt to Soutine.

Berni’s series of Chaco was displayed in Moscow and he took part in the show Dibujantes argentinos performed in Warsaw and Moscow.