Tank tv : Jacco Olivier 22nd July - 11th August

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tank tv. Now Showing: Jacco Olivier
22nd July - 11th August 2009
tank.tv is pleased to present a showcase of the work of Dutch artist Jacco Olivier.

These short videos exemplify the dense painterly technique that has come to define Olivier’s work 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 on viewing is of a feeling forgotten or a mystery unravelling. By withholding any meaningful narrative Olivier leaves viewers examining their own desire for meaning within these little, emotive pieces which seem like so much flotsam from the artist’s own experience.

“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. Now Showing: Jacco Olivier
22nd July - 11th August 2009
tank.tv is pleased to present a showcase of the work of Dutch artist Jacco Olivier.

These short videos exemplify the dense painterly technique that has come to define Olivier’s work 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 on viewing is of a feeling forgotten or a mystery unravelling. By withholding any meaningful narrative Olivier leaves viewers examining their own desire for meaning within these little, emotive pieces which seem like so much flotsam from the artist’s own experience.

“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.

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