Jacco Olivier
My conflict might be that there’s something I want to show but never know what that something is.
Jacco Olivier via The Act of Painting, 2013
Jacco Olivier (1972, Netherlands) fuses painting and filmmaking by repeatedly reworking paintings and systematically photographing each development. The various stages are combined into projected animations. The resulting films are enigmatic and experiential—moving in and out of abstraction they reveal the traces and decisions made by the artist in the process of painting. The films are imagined as windows onto converging, and often elegantly simple, moments of daily life, containing, however, an uneasy tension, something insinuated, unexpected and beyond our control.
