With Amelita Baltar, Mercedes Sosa, Astor Piazzolla, Palito Ortega

In Berni y la música popular at Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, he presented portraits of popular musicians like Edmundo Rivero, Amelita Baltar, Susana Rinaldi, Mercedes Sosa and Astor Piazzolla and Orquesta típica, painted some thirty years ago and now retouched.

A hard judgment about the epoch appeared in El gran mundo and Los maniquíes vivientes or Los indiferentes, paintings in which Berni showed the substitution of idealism by greed of consumption and indolence out of disappointment. On the other hand, eroticism was expressed as a nightmare in drawings as La siesta tropical or El trauma. The collages Camino bajo el cielo gris and Camino bajo los faros offered a pool of solitary routes –rehearsed in paintings of the 50s– driving towards an infinite horizon, evoking road movies and at a time suggesting a metaphysical ambience.

Berni (Estudio Crítico-Biográfico) by Rafael Squirru was published in Buenos Aires.