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      █   Palo Uber is one of the most collected minimal expressionist’s in the art world today. His
works are a truly rare commodity and are collected worldwide by savvy art collectors, art critics,
celebrities, foundations and multi-national corporations. Palo Uber is the only known artist in the
world today that has perfected a medium using “melted plastic with acrylic paint”. This is a result of
more than twenty eight years in perfecting, and has set a new departure within the art world today.

     With Uber’s synthesis from canvas to board in late 2006, The London Art Review said…..” we
have followed Palo Uber’s works for years, never disappointing and always with the Uber array of
colour and form captivation, but the transition to board from canvas with his ingenious melted
plastic was sensual delight, we were simply in awe….every piece we viewed are truly museum
bound….at last a new approach which is overwhelming.”

     Palo Uber is the only artist in the world today employing his unknown technique of utilizing a
melted plastic and combining raw acrylic paint to achieve his transparent to opaque layers and
forms. Uber refers to this as his twenty-eight year pursuit, which finally synthesized in late 2006,
along with his transition to board from a canvas. The result is a highly emotive and captivating
experience while the viewer looks on. The overall experience overwhelms your senses while
evoking a surreal calm. Uber’s works always draws the viewer in, demanding a closer inspection.
The accomplished detail is astounding, while maintaining the impact of the forms within the field.

     Palo Uber is the only child born to a globally recognized German architect father and an Italian
mother who was a highly visible member of the Milan art community. Palo was brought up in a
family where the arts were a primary foundation of living and a family who openly embraced
extreme liberalism. Following his father’s sudden death when Palo was twelve, his mother saw in
Palo his father’s artistic genius. She surrounded Palo with ways to stimulate and develop Palo’s
visionary ability she had also seen in his late father.
Palo sold his first piece professionally at age fourteen to a highly esteemed design group in London.

     At age sixteen and seventeen, Palo gained entry to the Mark Rothko studio in New York during
Palo’s summer holiday, thanks to a telephone call from Palo’s mother, who had arranged a Rothko
exhibit in Europe a few years prior. The Rothko influence can be clearly seen today in Uber’s works
some forty years latter. Following Palo’s attempt at University, left Palo feeling restricted,
institutionalized and unfulfilled. Palo walked way from University and found Joan Mitchell in
France, whom he had extreme fascination with her works. Palo spent the next three years mixing
paint for Mitchell while exploring the French countryside. Mitchell will prove an equal influence to
Rothko, leaving Uber with an intense observation and knowledge of colour, hue and “movement”.
Uber’s works today still clearly reflect Mitchell’s definitive colour combinations, but with the
dynamics that translucency evokes.

     Palo Uber’s works only involves subject matter that exists in reality. Each piece has specific
subject and intent. Often Uber illustrates taboo subject matter or objects which carry multiple
interpretations, which, may clearly reflect upon a current social injustice as seen by Uber. Palo
employs de Kooning’s method of reduction during Ubers initial work process. “I never utilized this
method while he was living…it seemed to had been an act of plagiarism, but following his passing it
then took on the antithesis of an educational tool.” When viewing an Uber work, one can clearly see
the portrayed subject matter, very similar to the latter de Kooning works, but with the minimalist
perspective reliant to Uber. Palo see daily use items as tools for observation, and reflection. Seeing a
toaster, coffee cup or window in Uber’s presentation forces the viewer to reflect on how to look and
view objects previously dis-regarded. Uber’s genius of the window series demonstratively portrays
the multi-faceted and milt-dimensional usage of such. “A window utilizes more usages than
anything else we encounter in a daily format. Windows are used for advertising, privacy, create
open space, transmit light and allow ventilation. What else can do this?” states Uber. His window
series is an ongoing series and takes on specific subject matter ( view from studio window, Red
Pants/Chanel-Bond Street Display Window, ).The window series is an extremely complex concept,
attempting to entice the viewer to reflect on a multitude of dimensional understandings and
perspectives, while illustrating the minimalism of the subject itself. This is the foundation of Palo
Uber’s conveyance of his subject.

     Following Uber’s concept of subject choice, one must consider Uber’s understanding of seeing.
Palo Uber sees all things as single layers, which together comprise masses or forms. Each
independent from the other, thus the importance of the edge arises. Uber stated during an
interview in 2007…”I see all things as layers…look at the ocean, the water itself is a single layer, the
space above the water is also a layer which there is no end, and exceed the span of the water. The
complexity arises with the shoreline, which involves multiple and separate forms/layers. Thus, the
edge or shoreline is the beginning, not the end as Rothko saw. As I see it as the beginning, this is
where the complexities of the layers begin to evolve the image of the form within the field.”….
Therefore, we can see where the need for transparency of medium evolves, as opaque medium
would not allow the progression of the subject matter nor the ability to build form and movement
from the underneath layer of the work. Uber’s ability to control the level of translucency, the value
of the hue and his ability to simply create colour which has not been defined before only further
attests to Palo Uber’s truly unique position within the art world today. █

Palo Uber █

Palo Uber
minimal expressionist
born 1951

December 19th Palo Uber Exhibition

Palo Uber, one of the most collected contemporary artist’s in the art world today, will be showing his
“most recent” series at the highly esteemed Darnell Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with opening
night December 19th, 2008 and running through February 15th, 2009. For further details please inquire on
the Exhibitions section posted above.