"What is interesting about Estrin's work is his way of handling volume, the way he handles lines in his carvings, it is shaped in which the freshness of not overloading the work with unnecessary details is preserved and there is also a global idea , which is called 'pregnancy', in a way that makes us approach this sculpture and find something new and fresh, something that makes us feel good, that we really don't need to make a lot of effort to find, but rather that the sculpture incorporates the "we" as a natural fact, as an act of nature just completed by man. It is as if man respects what nature has to tell us. And that, for me, is a virtue not shared by many. It is to be in the right place between the maker and the subject and nature. Because of this, I predict a good artistic future for him."

"Estrin takes the main structural element of the tree - Log - showing its nature in its pure state, in a first stage he intervenes it with plates, rods and polished iron wires accentuating the vigor of his work, or with color giving another look to his work. previous stage, but maintaining the discourse of opposites. Giving a turn to his work in recent times, he makes organic volumes of polished surfaces and vibrant colors flourish from the logs. They refer us to the original environment of the trunk, creating in some of his works a climate bucolic that matches the image."

"Norberto Estrin's current exhibition is called "Dialogues in Diversity", an appropriate name given that the artist uses two different basic materials: on the one hand, noble, organic wood, found and selected at random wherever it attracted the artist's gaze; on the other hand, iron, the epitome of a hard and compelling technology.

With these materials, creatively combined by the artist who recreates their shapes and textures, beings of rustic beauty emerge.

First, the warm surfaces of the pieces, plush but rough, that were once part of a tree, which with their warm color beg to be looked at.

Then comes unyielding iron, bellicose and ruthless - gleaming and dark, proud and on long, graceful stems. Or in fine delicate ribbons of a narcissistic foil, shiny as a mirror.

The materials, both rough, appear in intimate but forceful relationships, fascinating, or perhaps brutal. The result is a series of impressive and moving totemic figures of determined and eloquent beauty."

art without artifice

"Norberto Estrin throws himself into the practice of sculpture without concessions. The use of the direct carving technique on wood allows him to enter the material like someone who seeks to uncover, discover and free a work held inside. It is the eternal struggle of the creator to find the expression that reveals and grants renewed forms, to supersede experience in the world. One's interiority is exposed in the encounter with a fundamental other from movingly intimate experiences. Without a doubt, the rejection of any artifice is eloquent, the resignation austere to the seduction of the superfluous or decorative…

Under the relentless action of the chainsaw, profiles and faceted heads emerge, fragments of bodies that intersect or combine, figures that evoke an ancient monumentality, beyond its dimension in space and the contemporaneity of its imprint. The sensual encounter between the bodies has left clues, traces, grooves, signs that present them, then the sculptures burst forth as testimonies of a sequence of connections and disagreements that constitute artistic vibrations. The tactile and sensory values derived from those same bodies provide the necessary density to face the torn precariousness of existence.

It would seem that he has a goal to fulfill: to interrogate the feminine essence of creation: matter - mother - wood, to extract its secrets. Dive into its entrails and, from a masculine place, restore vitality to the trunk stripped of its root, rescue the devastated object from its desolation, restore sensitivity to the already felled tree, which has found a new vocation of being. As if to achieve this, the artist had to tame the brutal with its burden of rusticity and rawness, preserving certain primary elements untamed, never fully actionable, which allied with the author in the creative task, bring intensity and risk to his work. Sustained by a vital tension, these elements are articulated with a fine artistic expression, arbitrating the emotions formed from the pure intimacy of affections."