Jacco Olivier

donated by the artist

Some recent solo exhibitions
Pilar, Parra & Romero Galeria de Arte, Madrid 2008
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 2007
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin 2005
Victoria Miro Gallery, London 2004, 'Moving Pictures'

Some recent group exhibitions
Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York 2008, 'Landscapes for Frankenstein'
Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva 2006, 'Version Animée'
Consortium, Amsterdam 2005, 'Interval'
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 2004, 'Jacco Olivier, Kate Forde, Helen Baron'

Selected publications
Art Forum Berlin: the international art show, Berlin: Messe Berlin 2009
Montse Badia, Fantasmagoria: Dibujo en movimiento, Madrid: Fundacion ICO 2007
Fast forward 2, Munich: Media Art Sammlung Goetz 2006

Selected public and corporate collections
CBK, Leiden, NL • Kunstcollectie Stichting Océ Kunstbezit, NL • Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE • Sammlung Olbricht, Essen, DE • The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK • Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, US • Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US • The Margulies Collection, Miami, US • Tishman Speyer Collection, New York, US • The Logan Collection, New York, US • Vail Calder Foundation, New York, US • Honart Museum, Tehran, IR

Jacco Olivier is primarily a painter dealing with painting by analyzing every step. He begins his work by depicting something in swift, light brushstrokes. He modifies and changes the picture and records each phase in photographs. His work is completed through computer techniques into 'moving pictures'. The resulting animation is simple and concise but demonstrates each step. His work process is considerably intricate, but in terms of themes, his attitude seems much more liberal. He rarely creates artworks under a specific theme and would not define the relations between each work. In terms of subject his work addresses common everyday scenes and objects, in terms of process he creates an impression of a fleeting moment by post-impressionistic brush marks and his use of diverse colours, which sometimes make his work appear abstract. Despite the rendition of unrealistic situations with common objects, his work is like the depiction of a dream-scene through this technique, so viewers can accept his painting naturally. He presents a new type of painting through the combination of painting and video.

Jacco Olivier was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 1997-1998.
He won the Buning Brongers Prize (NL) in 1998.