2011-08-10 Staircase Staircase, 2011 wood, paint, PVC, inkjet print on PVC, 65 × 204 × 130 cm Robert Estermann takes varied and continually renewed paths, each leading to a conceptual experiment outside any system. In Staircase, he shifts the line into architecture by covering the steps with a print. Once again, he “finds a way of undoing—through drawing, thanks to drawing—definitions. It is contrary to the very definition of drawing; it is drawing against the grain,” as Elisabeth Lebovici writes. excerpt from Karine Tissot, Ma couleur est noir, in Dimensione Disegno. Posizioni contemporanee, exhibition catalog, Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri / Edizioni Sottoscala, Bellinzona, 2016 (English translation) shown in: “Dimensione Disegno. Posizioni contemporanee,” Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, Switzerland (2016) “Max von Moos – gesehen von Peter Roesch, Christian Kathriner und Robert Estermann,” Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2011) bibliography: Dimensione Disegno. Posizioni contemporanee, exhibition catalog, Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri / Edizioni Sottoscala, Bellinzona, 2016, ISBN 978-88-95471-28-0, pp. 11–12, 41–48, 127–128, 136–137, 140 Laura Giudici, “Dimensione Disegno – Linee in libertà,” Kunstbulletin, July/August 2016, pp. 68–69 View publication → see also: Four Boys / Four Horses, 1996