(1956) French artist

Philippe Berry was born in Paris in 1956 of a family of three children: Richard, Marie-Claire and Philippe. At the age of 17, he enters an art school, ESAG (College of Graphic Arts) Penninghen, street of Dragon, in Paris. He begins as textile draftsman for children, then becomes model maker for an advertising agency.

At the age of 23, he creates his first film poster ("It is necessary to kill Birgit Haas ", of Laurent Heynneman with Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort), and the others then as "Aphrodite" with Valérie Kaprisky, "Nestor Burma", with Michel Serrault and Jane Birkin, " at Night of drunkenness, with Josiane Balasko, among others … In 1989, he stops his advertising activities to dedicate himself only to the painting.

At the same time, he creates stage sets ("the ex-woman of my life in Splendid and in the Gymnasium, " kitchen and dependences " of Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui to the theater Fountain). In 1990, he meets Marie-Hélène Montenay, with whom he makes his first exhibition of drawings watercolors. Two years later, he begins the sculpture.

His first piece will be exposed to the FIAC in 1993. In 1997, he exposes to the gallery Beaubourg at Pierre and Marianne Nahon in the Castle Notre-Dame-des-fleurs, in Vence. In 1998, the gallery Gérald Piltzer offers him a personal exhibition " the book of fables ", with a text of Marcelin Pleynet. He realizes sculptures for institutional commands, as in 1998 with the AFAA and the TAIL COAT of La Réunion for a sculpture fountain in front of the Embassy of France in Zimbabwé, or a monumental sculpture for the cinema multiplexes Pathé in Marseille. His work investigates the world of the childhood, its real world (the game, the toys) or its phantasmagoria. He uses the bronze as media to register these short-lived moments when are the games in the history and the perpetuity.