About Jean Philippe Kadzinski

For Jean Philippe Kadzinski, the city is more than architecture—it is rhythm. Windows, façades, balconies, and staircases become notes in a score that he digitally condenses, overlays, and transforms into vibrating picture planes. His… Read more

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Jean Philippe Kadzinski transforms architecture into rhythm. Windows, facades, and balconies become visual notes that he layers digitally into vibrant urban compositions. Born in Lorraine and now based in New York and Miami, he blends documentary precision with artistic construction. Inspired by Pop Art, Op Art, and the Bechers, Kadzinski creates urban symphonies rich in color, detail, and energy. His works celebrate the city as a living structure of movement, rhythm, and light.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

For Jean Philippe Kadzinski, the city is more than architecture—it is rhythm. Windows, façades, balconies, and staircases become notes in a score that he digitally condenses, overlays, and transforms into vibrating picture planes. His works oscillate between documentary architectural photography and visual construction, between reality and illusion.

Born in Lorraine and now based in New York and Miami, Kadzinski has experienced urban life from contrasting vantage points: the natural idyll of his childhood, the worlds of fashion and advertising, and the cosmos of the metropolis. This multiplicity shapes his art. What appears to be a boundless cityscape is in truth the result of meticulous labor: digital collages of hundreds of façades, inserted into strict grids and heightened with bold color.

His visual language deliberately gestures toward art history: the serial structures recall Bernd and Hilla Becher, the chromatic explosions Warhol and Pop Art, the shimmering density Bridget Riley and Op Art. Yet every work bears his unmistakable signature—optimistic, detail-obsessed, brimming with visual energy.

This range is evident in the LUMAS portfolio: Cool City and Peak Vibration unfold an urban symphony in saturated hues, echoing the unrestrained vitality of the metropolis. By contrast, Good Morning and Paris City display the elegance of reduced palettes—a homage to order, rhythm, and the quiet poetry of windows.

Kadzinski’s art is a hymn to urban density. Like the city itself, it condenses countless impressions into a single field of vision—a conceptual mirror of metropolitan life, made of both excess and structure. His works are kaleidoscopic reflections of our present: dense, polyphonic, and alive with movement.

VITA

Born in Lorraine (France), lives and works in Florida​ JP Kadzinski is a French photographer who has gained international attention for his colorful and rhythmic cityscapes. His works combine urban dynamism​ with introspective depthinfluenced by his childhood in nature and his experiences in the fashion​ and advertising world. With a special sense for light, movement, and composition, he creates​ visual narratives that transform the everyday into poetic images.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2018 "Escape" Fremin Gallery, NYC

Group Exhibitions

2025 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2024 Scope Miami Beach

2024 Affordable Art Fair, Austin

2023 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary

2023 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2023 Hampton Fine Art Fair

2023 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2022 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2022 Hamptons Fine Art Fair

2022 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2020 HLK x Refinery Hotel, NYC

2018 Scope Miami Beach

2018 Reveal Int. Art Fair, Saratoga NY

2017 Scope Miami Beach

2017 Uplift art fair, NYC

2017 Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong

2017 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2016 Scope Miami Beach

2016 Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong

2016 Hamptons Fine Art Fair

2016 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2015 Hamptons Fine Art Fair

2015 Affordable Art Fair, NYC

INTERVIEW

Picasso once said, “you don’t make art, you find it.” Where do you find your art? 

Picasso were right...you find it...it s like finding your own path....you own way !!! I listened my heart and my little voice inside myself to guide me and create new Art pieces...it s a long process...but I loved it !! 

From an idea to its materialization: How do you approach your work? 

well..first it s like writing a book..you got the blank page then you wrote the first lines same a Art photographer...when I started a new piece imported let say 300/500 images in a folder...like the blank page I got my white screen empty frame , I imported image by one..and go with the feeling, choosing every image randomly and intuitively ...to find the right pattern balance, color, vibes.,the shape ....etc..I called it channeling, it s always a new adventure....loved it.... the way I approach my work is very unique and special...first come the idea then come the work..every single piece I did took me between 300 and 500 hours of work....I like to go with the flow and trusting my intuition..meaning be in the now and creating, breathing ...I zoom every millimeter to make sure...there his no mistakes, when you deal with 400 images ...adding them to do a collage and print a plexiglass in 60/70 inches..there is no place for error !!!! it s like micro surgery ... 

What is your favorite book? 

impossible is possible from Joseph Murphy, nothing is impossible when you believe !!!! and you have the faith. 

How did you get into art? 

I always been a deep soul, and very spiritual..so i listen my third eye since early age, as a kid ,people called it intuition..sometimes i do things without knowing why or the goal or the result !!! you just let it go and go with the flow........so i photographed 1500 fire escapes in New York city...because my intuition told me to do so and then as a child in France , I was watching he USA movies.in NYC and .i always love those fire escapes....it s fascinating me big time, then after a few month in my folder in stock...i decided to create a piece..found then idea to create my first art piece..randomly..and fall in love with the result.... those fire escape are so precious and iconic...the rest is history :) 

Who are the people in your surroundings that influence you? 

nobody influenced me or so..because i think that most of the people who follow that path who had mentors or masters have a tendency to copy others ..so on my own i was able to create many things with a free spirit...based on my vision....that s the way I roll....I don t watch TV for the last 15 years..!!!!!! my choice :) here is a funny and true story..... i was working in fashion for 25 + years..and back in day no computer or cells..i travelled the world, the globe.. and at each event or party or bar..etc....people always asked your name what do you do etc..so i always replied ....guess? keep in mind it was in 1995..and ...... 90 percent of the people answers was : are you a photographer !!!!!! true story....i was surprise myself but now i don t anymore (laughing) people can see many things we can t see ourselves ...my point is always follow your heart....I guess I m on the right path :) 

Imagine you have a time machine. Where would you go? 

i would like to get back in the 80s (1980) when the joy, the peace, the disco..were there..everybody was happy, no technologies, no stress, no even the songs were gentle.sweet and all about love, 

the key is when you are young you don t realized how lucky you re !!!  

full of energy, dreams, life ahead, many options...inconscient...free.... 

the 80s were all about that..it was a simple life..but once again the people were happy and full of joy..... 

i was lucky enough to live there.......3 channels on TV, no cells, no computer, etc..... 

people were connected to their own souls....and the nature.... 

even today the young generation knows the 80s songs...who actually strike me.. 

that s mean it was very good.. 

Other than art, what are you most passionate about? 

other than art ,after photography ....n 2.. I m a table tennis high level player (pingpong) I played 2/3 times a week.keep me in shape mentally and physically !!!! best sport in the world where all the art of the brain is working at once....I still compete now and then ..then I also love tai chi, and qi qong...it s all about be balance !!!! when you re balance you re happy.....then when you re happy you get older much better and healthier...and alert....... 

What are you working on right now? 

right now I have been working for the last 450 hours on the Eiffel Tower.(in Paris) ..like it never be done before..(photography wise ) long story short..I rebuilt the tower with my vision..another idea based on my intuition...I need another 100 hours to finish the piece...at least...because I m zooming on every millimeter of the Eiffel Tower on photoshop.....very exciting of the result..it s be gone be very unique....