Very grateful for the publication in the Italian ARTE magazine about the Ego Vivo / Self-Portrait 25, shown here during my solo exhibition Inner Voice. I loaned the work to the Fundació Numa Espais de Cultura for the next 3 years.

“CIUTADELLA DE MENORCA. A gigantic inverted human upper arm bone of bronze towers above a concrete pedestal, a sculptural fragment and synecdoche of the artist’s own body: a part that represents the whole in a self-portrait erected by Caspar Berger (Utrecht, Netherlands, 1965) in the lush park of the Numa Foundation in Ciutadella de Menorca, in the Balearic Islands. It acts as a kind of bridge between earth and heaven, merging the physical experience of shaping matter with the metaphysical realm of thought. A voltaic arch that activates the creative energy of the sculptures scattered throughout the bright halls of the foundation and in the mysterious corners of the park (possibly remnants of a Talaiotic necropolis).

The body-his own body-is the central subject through which Berger explores the social, ethical and political controversies of our time. It becomes both the yardstick and the standard of sculptural mastery that combines classical knowledge, technical virtuosity and refined conceptual depth. On one side there is Michelangelo, on the other Cellini, with a nod to Adriaen de Vries and Damien Hirst.“

(free translation of publication written by Michele Bonuomo)