Born in Poland, Caziel spent the major years of his artistic development in France. His painting developed through a synthesis of many diverse elements into an individual form of 'cubist' abstraction during the 1940's. This very expressive style became apparent during his five-year close friendship with Picasso. During the 1950's his paintings evolved into rigorous geometrical patterns. Composition 04.1967 illustrates several statements on his abstract work, bringing back the passionate debates of the post-war period, and Caziel's affiliations with an earlier avant-garde tradition.

During 1967, Caziel painted a series of seductive interlocking shapes which would ultimately lead to geometrical abstraction of forms against a white background. These works are the result of Caziel's intention to commit himself to pushing his research into Abstraction and show his self-awareness and willingness to lay himself bare in his paintings, so that they become the embodiment of his thoughts, emotions and self. They are the end of a long journey, from Giotto, through Cézanne and Picasso, passing by Kandinsky and Malevich, and the reading of philosophy and art. The consciousness of the journey and the search for the aesthetic of the essence of being were key to Caziel's development. These works were first exhibited by the Grabowski Gallery in London. With his abstract works, Caziel demonstrated that the goal was to understand experience by describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. As such, Caziel's abstract paintings are inscribed into the contemporary French philosophical debate.
Caziel exhibited at Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris and at the Grabowski Gallery in London. A major retrospective of his work was hosted by the National Museum of Warsaw in 1998.
Caziel's works are in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the National Museum, Warsaw and the Vatican Museum, Rome.