Gérard Kosicki
Acting
Biography
Gérard Kosicki is a multifaceted French photographer and graphic designer, also a visual artist and writer, whose work has developed at the intersection of still photography, publishing, and contemporary visual creation. Long established in the Grenoble and Alpine community, he has become known for his photographic practice that focuses on bodies in motion, landscapes, and atmospheres, often linked to the world of mountains and climbing. For about ten years, he closely followed the climber Patrick Edlinger, documenting his ascents and his world, building a visual archive that now contributes to the memory of this major figure in sport mountaineering. Alongside his work as a photographer, Gérard Kosicki develops a practice as a graphic designer and visual artist, creating images, layouts, and editorial objects that blend formal rigor with a sense of visual storytelling. This dual practice also informs his work as an author, as he has written several books in the fields of travel, children's literature, illustrated storytelling, and architecture, thus extending his exploration of the image through text and publishing. Committed to promoting creative work, he founded and directs a digital magazine dedicated to images and the visual arts, affirming his position as both a creator and a facilitator within the contemporary art scene.
Known For
Une Vie Au Dessus Du Vide (A Life Above the Void), directed by Nicolas de Virieu, is a documentary that recounts the journey of Patrick Edlinger, an exceptional climber, through a parallel between the strong media impact he had, unmatched to this day, and the evolution, or rather the explosion, of climbing activity during the 80s/90s. Rare excerpts from mainstream programs (television news, Champs-Élysées, Le Grand Échiquier, Les Carnets de l'Aventure...) also remind us what a great star he was, all interspersed with interviews with Seb Bouin, Jean-Paul Lemercier, Arnaud Petit, Antoine Le Menestrel and Gérard Kosicki.
Une Vie au dessus du vide
How can we probe the far reaches of the Cosmos to decode the mystery of our origins? In Grenoble, the capital of the French Alps, or from the peaks of Mauna Kea (Hawaii), Cerro Paranal, and much higher still, a team of researchers led by Jérôme Bouvier probes the far reaches of the Cosmos to decode the mystery of our origins. The distant and different "worlds" glimpsed thanks to the most powerful ground-based and space-based telescopes are a source of beauty and emotion, as well as new challenges. At the crossroads of genres, both a visual essay and a documentary, the film KUMULIPO, directed by Gérard Kosicki, also offers a poetic journey rooted in the constant advancement of our knowledge. 13.8 billion years have passed since the emergence of spacetime. Today, we glimpse what we do not yet know…