1972 born Netherlands, lives and works in Amsterdam

Young Dutch painter Jacco Olivier fuses painting and the moving image in tiny animated works that invest small events with magical lyricism, while at the same time illuminate the narrative process of painting. He begins with an image that he paints over time and again; photographing each stage until the original degenerates and finally disappears all together. What remains is an animated history of the work that captures scraps of narrative and visual memory joined to form a moving picture. Olivier presents a microcosmic animated world of informal situations - a frog attempts to cross a road, men walk in a field, an airplane flies overhead. There is a casual uneasiness and tension, a feeling that something is about to happen or has just happened, but there are no definitive answers, beginnings or conclusions. Olivier's animations instead find their place in the margins, somewhere between a story and a painting.

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