Adam Kozik

I was born on September 24, 1972, in Krakow, Poland and studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Krakow University of Technology. In 1998, I defended my thesis in the Department of Public Utility Facility Design. Since 2001, I have been managing my own architectural design studio, Ar-De Studio Architecture & Design (www.ardestudio.pl), where I have authored numerous projects, including the award-winning "Wielicka Garden" residential estate in Krakow, which received first place in the 2017 “Resident-Friendly Investment” competition.

"However, being more scientifically inclined, he attended an electronics technical school, and later, in 1993 - for the first time consciously combining artistic creativity and logical-mathematical predispositions - he began studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Krakow University of Technology. Initially, as he admits, he lacked a sense of space. Paradoxically, art came to his aid. As part of his classes at the university, he not only studied drawing but also had the opportunity to participate in artistic outdoor trips and create, among others, spatial compositions. At the same time, he became interested in the work of the fathers of modern art, primarily Cézanne and Picasso. The analysis of their way of rendering space and shapes - simplified or broken down into its most basic elements, subjected to more or less complex transformations, and finally reconstructed in the form of new structures - allowed him to "feel" the form and, consequently, the space. Inspired by the analytical approach of masters of contemporary art to the structure of the work and the represented forms, he began to build his own compositions, both artistic and architectural, more consciously. It was then that his first works were created, including still lifes inspired by similar works by Cézanne, belonging to the canon of 20th-century art.

Next to the master from Aix, Kozik's second important source of inspiration was Pablo Picasso and the artists from his circle. Their cubist compositions revealed new possibilities and encouraged him to experiment with form. But apart from these "main" inspirations, Kozik did not hesitate to draw from other sources and, in search of his own style, looked, among others, towards Nowosielski or Kandinsky.

At first glance, these artistic fascinations may seem heterogeneous and surprisingly disparate. However, in fact, they form a logical whole. All the artists mentioned above have one aspect in common: their ability to synthesize. This analysis and transformation of forms, shapes, and spaces into a coherent, synthetic composition will, over time, also become one of the characteristic elements of Adam Kozik's artistic language."