The impetus is to conceive art as a process - to visualize art in its very nature.

The fabrics Uli Fischer is working with have one thing in common:

they have a history of their own, have obtained a ´soul´ by usage,

bearing signs of wear. Uli Fischer attemps to make these signs of

wear visible, tracking down their individual life and aura, the

patina of each of them, while at the same time exploring their

artistic value and esthetics within a new contextual frame.

In tracing the elements of life within the various fabrics,

Uli Fischer uncovering their apparent patina to unveil their inner

structure and coherence whilst strongly relying on his own artistic

intuition he not only conjures and re-creates the historical aura

but succeeds in expanding it by adding a new dimension: his own.

Excerpt of a text by Gabriele Schmelz accompanying the exhibition

PATINA - Lebensspuren auf Stoff -            Berlin, October 2008