Jacco Olivier
Born in 1972 in Goes, the Netherlands, Jacco Olivier studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and continues to live and work there today. Combining painting and film, Olivier photographs a painting in progress as it evolves. The separate phases of his painting are then animated, recording a series of moments that, like fragments of memory, are evocative of stories but ultimately defy resolution.
Olivier's work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver; the Istanbul Modern; and the Centre pour L'image Contemporaine in Geneva. His work was included in the 2005 Prague Biennial.
The Dissolve
A paradigm shift in contemporary art is rare and hard to recognize at its inception, but that is what curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco did in The Dissolve, SITE SANTA FE’s Eighth International Biennial. The curators presented a new sensibility in the art of our time, a mingling of up-to-the-minute technology and traditional visual arts (painting, drawing, and sculpture) with dance, music, and film. The fundamental form of this new work was animation, uniting the technological (the camera) with the handmade (drawing).
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