"My work examines movement and the abstraction of figures through distortions of form, color, and time. As a subject, I have been exploring football for compositional richness, due to the passion for football which unites people, and for the symbolism it contains which forms its own visual language", says Krystofer Kimmel.
Krystofer Kimmel (b. 1993 – West Palm Beach, Florida) is an artist based in Paris who primarily works in painting – for which he received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2016. Kimmel was formerly based in Brooklyn, NY where he worked for paint manufacturer Guerra Paint & Pigment Corporation, was director and curator of At Large – an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn – and has most recently exhibited with East Projects (NY) in 2020. Works present in this exhibition have been created in Brooklyn, Paris and in Hampshire, England. In his youth, Kimmel was a varsity high school athlete in football and track. His experience with sport and athletics remains present in the artist’s life, and is the inspiration for the Footballeurs series currently presented in: La Poética de la Cancha.