It wasn’t only the art critic Beatrice Spiliadis who saw the image of "damaged cathedrals" on the sculptures of Achille Aperghis. The sharp forms, the abstract morphology and the strict verticality that characterize many of them, gave rise to similar associations even by the artist himself, while rethinking years later on his artistic work. "It was not possible for the artists to go through the war without any influence in our mental mood and in our aesthetic perception at all," he concludes, commenting on the distinctive artistic universe of the "metallic wear" he created. A world that was methodically built with metallic rods as the raw material which the sculptor processed, welded and composed in such a way as to convey the eerie sense of a corroded and precarious structure. [Achilleas Aperghis, Untitled 1961-62, 178 x 81 x 35 cm, bronze, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Collection Donation by Giorgos Aperghis MOMus - Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections]