Jacco Olivier

With an opening reception on Thursday, 29 September from 7 pm to 9 pm, Galerie Thomas Schulte will be marking the start of its first exhibition of the Dutch painter Jacco Olivier, who will present three works in the studio space of the gallery.

Jacco Olivier, born 1972 in the Netherlands lives and works in Amsterdam. While seeing painting as his primary medium, he uses animation to illuminate the narrative process of painting. Olivier fuses painting and moving images in tiny, projected, animated works that invest small and intangible moments with a magical lyricism.

He generally begins with a painting that he paints over time and again; photographing each stage, until the original slowly degenerates and finally disappears all together. What remains is an animated history of the work, a slice of time, which captures scraps of narrative, and memories that are joined together to form a moving picture.

Between the groups of colours and abstract forms of paint Olivier reveals a micro-cosmic animated world of informal situations - a frog tries to cross the road, men walk in a field, an airplane flies overhead. These mementoes are small, chance reflections about both the nature of the world and the nature of painting. 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. Rather Olivier’s animations find their own place in the margins, somewhere between a story and a painting.

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