Kevin Pinsembert
is a painter from Paris and a member of the French collective Modern Jazz, alongside Jin Angdoo, Hams Klemens, and Mathieu Julien. Working between Paris and Marseille, the group shares an approach to painting that embraces improvisation, humour, and the quiet poetry of everyday forms.
Pinsembert’s paintings often begin with simple arrangements or fragments of urban observation. Echoing the calm presence of Morandi’s still lifes while remaining rooted in contemporary city life, he assembles unexpected elements into carefully balanced compositions. Cars, stones, rooftops, and patches of colour appear together in shifting arrangements that slowly drift away from their original identity.
Within the pictorial space, objects hover between recognition and abstraction. They stack, tilt, collapse, or rest on uncertain surfaces, forming compositions that feel both playful and slightly absurd. Words occasionally appear within the paintings as reversed labels or cryptic fragments of language, transforming text into another visual material.
Through this subtle displacement of objects and meaning, Pinsembert’s work turns the familiar into something quietly strange, where painting becomes a space for reimagining the relationship between form, language, and the everyday.