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Reverberating in silence

When an artist conceives an image, the challenging task of materializing it begins. Although some of us laboriously crawl over each phase of its formation, dealing with every technical aspect, the majority of us need help to realize our concept. But every one of us has someone—that “silent skill,” that ally—whom we trust to assist us in the process. This issue of Sculpture Review is about the people behind the scenes in the art world to whom many thanks are due: to all the spouses, such as Mercedes Pedrazzini, nicknamed Marina, who was unmistakably present in Marini’s artistic growth; to a brother, Diego, who was a great sculptor in his own right but known in the art world primarily as a model and collaborator for his painter and sculptor brother Alberto Giacometti; to a lover, Camille Claudel; to a colleague, Berthold Nebel, upon whose skill Anna Hyatt Huntington often relied; to a foundryman like Bob Zimmerman, who has worked with devotion in developing a community of artists; to Alex J. Ettl, who continues, even after his passing, to give aid to sculptors through annual grants; to master mold-makers such as Sollenne and Contini, whom many artists miss—and to all of those who have lived and worked in the shadow of artists. It is to those people we owe our gratitude for their assistance, support, and service, often only to see realized the dream of the artist/friend as if it were their own. I am also extending a personal note of thanks to my late friends Luigi Tommasi and Sem Ghelardini, whose passion for life and dedication to the world of art will continue to reverberate for decades, in my point of view.

Giancarlo Biagi

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