When Daniel Spoerri’s good friend Roland Topor died in 1997, it spurred him to leave Paris and move to the Giardino. It was natural that there, where all his artist friends and important artistic encounters are documented by works, there should also be something to memorialise Topor. However, there are no sculptures by Roland Topor. He was a satirist and illustrator. So Spoerri selected a drawing. This graphic work provided the basis for the sculpture that we can now see in the Giardino. After a clay model was made, it was hewn in marble by a »scalpellina« in Carrara.