Jacco Olivier
22nd July - 11th August 2009
on www.tank.tv

tank.tv is pleased to present nine of Jacco Olivier’s animated works online at www.tank.tv from the 22nd July - 11th August 2009. The show will include work made between 2003 and 2009: 'BMK', 'Birds', 'Submerge', 'Sleep', 'Transit', 'Wood', 'Return', 'Run' and 'Almost'.

“The images he (Olivier) makes are obviously painterly, their brushwork bold and narrative, their colour-sense superb. Yet the point of painting is that it is framed, that it frames (or freeze-frames) a turning world. By contrast, Olivier’s frames do all of those transitory things we expect of film, so that you’re constantly longing to shout “Stop!”; to be given a moment to appreciate his individual visions. We expect different things of painting and cinema. By running the two together, Olivier shakes the way we see the world.” Charles Darwent, The Independent on Sunday, 2007.

tank.tv is pleased to present a showcase of the work of Dutch artist Jacco Olivier. The short videos exemplify the dense painterly technique that has come to define Olivier within the realm of moving image and position him somewhere between painter, filmmaker and animator. Each work is "a slice of life" and the effect is of a feeling forgotten or a mystery unravelling. By witholding the signpost of narrative Olivier leaves viewers examining their own desires for these little, emotive pieces which seem like so much flotsam from the artist's own life. Whilst Olivier's technique describes intense labour the videos appear and disappear leaving the viewer in their deep, gentle wake.

Jacco Olivier was born in 1972 in the Netherlands. He lives and works in Amsterdam.

Visit www.tank.tv to explore Jacco Olivier's work as well as our online archive of previously exhibited work.