TEXTS There is no truth to myself, my species, my love, my closet, my house, my valley. SELECTED TEXTS ON ROBERT ESTERMANN Elisabeth Lebovici Robert Estermann, Blue Rider, 2007 English → / French → Daniel Kurjaković Improper Thinking / Uneigentliche Politik, 2007 English → / German → Clemens Krümmel ESTA MAÑANA, 2015 German → Isabel Fluri Modern Beach Design, 2009 German → Susanne Neubauer Robert Estermann, an Introduction / Robert Estermann zur Einführung, 2007 English → / German → Sue Golding Four Horses, Four Boys and the Techne of Line Drawing, 2004 English → Adrian Lucas Drawing Desire, or How I Feel Much Better Today Than Tomorrow / Drawing Desire, oder wie ich mich heute viel besser fühle als morgen, 2007 English → / German → INTERVIEWS & CONVERSATIONS Ji Yoon Yang and Gregory Maass About the Kim Kim Gallery Show with Robert Estermann, 2013 English → Hans Ulrich Obrist Tout est important – Hans-Ulrich Obrist parle avec Robert Estermann, about his show at Galerie du Jour agnès b., 2002 French, audio, 40 min. → WRITINGS BY ROBERT ESTERMANN Weapons of endless translating power, 2000 Imagine a place where every act, every touch would have the impact of a non-ending question; or the impact of a kind of revolution, because there would be no meta-narrative between or amongst any act. The dynamic of such a place is, physically, a history of equations — a poetics, not of metaphors or symbols, but that of the un-measurable, obscene in the hole of life. I am interested in speaking as if stereotypes within cultural identification did not exist, I crossover, and I find sequences that differ from each other in a certain way as far as I can see. I am not at all interested in moralizing these differences. The lines in my drawings do not properly describe anything; they are rather weapons of endless translating power. I am interested in a material that is artist, freedom, time, fetish, translation. Artist’s text for New Sundays, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris 2008 My works in this exhibition, my drawings in particular, are prophecies, little crystals, savant points. They read the clouds, almost classical alphabets, and then the clouds again. They believe that matter is information and that it exceeds all prophecies. They change matter through information. They have bodies of all ages, colors, and sexes. They believe that miracles are the ordinary of the possible, and that if art is punk, it is because its happening is ordinary and miraculous, everywhere and specific at the exact same time. They also like to trick in order to survive, to fight exclusion, to play. They read the angles of the waves and surf their tunnels. They play in shapes, the ocean, and the optimism of the modern. They say: The waters of the ocean got new tastes. SELECTED REVIEWS & PRESS Urs Bugmann Zeichnungen sind Ausbrüche des Denkens, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 2009 German → Judith Hopf Best of 2013, Artforum, 2013 English → Mirjam Breu Vierzig Jugendliche als lebendige Skulptur, Radio DRS1, 2009 German, audio, 3 min. → Urs Bugmann Ich biete Reibungsflächen, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 2007 German → Neue Zürcher Zeitung In der Mausfalle, 2007 German → Niklaus Oberholzer Luzern: Robert Estermann im Kunstmuseum, Kunst-Bulletin, 2007 German → Kati Moser Der Pfahlbauer, Schweizer Illustrierte, 2007 German → Caroline de Bie Four Horses, HTV De Ijsberg, 1997 English →