DUMONTEIL is pleased to present “L'art du dribble" at DUMONTEIL Contemporary Paris. Featuring works from 11 contemporary artists, this exhibition focuses on the charisma of this beautiful game, the numerous metaphors it involves, as well as the varied culture, history, and geopolitics behind this enduring game.

Art and football have one thing in common: they both convey emotions, even magnify them. These emotions are made of joy, admiration, euphoria, and pride, but also of sadness, disappointment, hatred, and unfortunately sometimes violence.

Art reflects society and its time, and society is influenced by art. The same is true for football. Football does not only reflect a sporting dimension, it is also societal, bringing together values of sharing and communion, but also of division and communitarianism.

Football has a quasi-religious dimension, every city has its places of worship and its football stadium. Football can also be compared to religion in the sense of a practice, a fervor, and a ritual that make it a moment of expression of religiosity to the point that football is sometimes referred to as a 'modern planetary religion'.

The history of football is much more than just a history of the sport; it is deeply intertwined with colonialism, post-colonialism, migration, and globalization, from Socrates’s famous Win or Lose, But Always with Democracy on the field of 1986 World Cup, to South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup that opened a new chapter to the nation's history.

It is important not to forget that those who live and vibrate for this sport, the supporters, through their songs, their tifos, and their choreographies bring a creative dimension to the great football masses.

Art, in its broadest sense, has always been an indisputable element of the extraordinary world of football and the power it has over people and their emotions.