JEAN-PHILIPPE KADZINSKI
City Trees
2022

About the Item

French photographic artist, Jean Philippe Kadzinski currently resides in New York, where he produces rhythmic depictions of the opportune city. Born in a small village in Lorraine, the artist spent his youth in a dissimilar landscape. Categorized by verdant farmland and industrial manufacturing, the nature-rich town nurtured an exploratory boyhood spent roaming forests and hills. At fourteen, shortly before receiving his mechanical diploma, he began an apprenticeship at a pipe factory. However, for Kadzinski, industrious labors lacked the creative, self-actualizing stimulation he necessitated. By the age of 29, this passionate sentiment drove a fulfilment-seeking venture to Paris, where he found himself in pursuit of modeling and advertisement. Prior to the commencement of his personal photographic endeavors, Kadzinksi meticulously compounded traits of his pending artistry. While in front of camera, he gained insights into composing images through his own intuitive movements and lighting direction. From this proficiency bloomed an immersed familiarity with subject matter and its role. As he now sculpts visuals from an external standpoint, the experience has gifted a perceptively dualistic quality in his relationship to the camera. Such union of skills and understandings heavily influence Jean Philippe Kadzinski’s aesthetic, which delivers vibrantly active representations of his explored realities. Conceptually, this is evident when a childhood Introspective appreciation of nature intersects with the interactions in a newfound bustling world outside of himself. The metropolitan environment encourages reflection also on our relatively minuscule, yet substantial place in society, a viewpoint magnified when he granted his own childhood dream of moving to New York City.

Creator:

JEAN-PHILIPPE KADZINSKI

Creation Year:

2022

Dimensions:

Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 50 in (127 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)

Medium:

Photographic Film,Mixed Media,Photographic Paper,Photogram,Plexiglass

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-