Walking Boy

Walking Boy, 2006
marker on paper, 285 x 210 cm
collection CMC agnès b.

 

shown in:
“New Sundays”, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris, France (2008)
“Robert Estermann. Manor Kunstpreis Luzern 2007”, Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland (solo show)
“Heimatflimmern”, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany (2006)

bibliography:
Kunstmuseum Luzern, “Robert Estermann, Pleasure, Habeas Corpus, Motoricity. The Great Western Possible”, exhibition catalogue, Edition Fink, ISBN 978-3-03746-105-1, 2007, Zürich (monographical)

see also:
Untitled (Left Hand Corner)
Calligraphy of a Young Westerner
Last Space (Documenta 11), 2002
Transparent Kindergartens Above Streets, 2004-2006

 


 

Excerpt from Robert Estermann, Blue Rider by Elisabeth Lebovici
in: Robert Estermann. Pleasure, Habeas Corpus, Motoricity. The Great Western Possible Ed. Susanne Neubauer, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Museum of Art Lucerne, edition fink, Zurich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-03746-105-1

Robert Estermann combats this expulsion by throwing it back at the viewer like a mirror or a slap: the silhouette of a child drawn in marker-pen turns away and leaves (Walking Boy), giving tangible form to the tension between hermeticism and desire.


 

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