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'JE SUIS ABSTRAIT' - WORKS FROM THE FIFTIES
 'JE SUIS ABSTRAIT' - Works from the Fifties Paris, 1952 When the legendary Cubist art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler assumed Caziel’s abstract work to be an experiment from which he would return to figuration, Caziel insisted ‘Non, je suis abstrait’. Kahnweiler’s wish to include Caziel in his stable of figurative artists came at a time when Caziel had left Cubism behind in favour of Abstraction. At this time, Caziel’s friendship with Picasso, with whom he shared a studio for five years after the Second World War, remained close, but his expression of a new visual world of colour to create light, space and rhythm, only to rival a musical composition, demonstrates the end of Picasso’s influence. The exhibition at Whitford Fine Art brings together works from this pivotal development in Caziel’s career. It includes the early abstract paintings, which combine a Cubist-influenced aesthetic and geometric decomposition, as well as the subsequent paintings with biomorphic shapes. With these works Caziel believed that, as possibly Picasso and Braque did when they invented Cubism, he was reaching for a higher order of reality, a new perspective, which hinted at a spiritual, fourth dimension. Caziel’s annual submissions to the Salon de Mai, 1948-1956, demonstrated his dedication to the Abstract cause. Official recognition of his abstract work came in 1951, when the Musée National d’Art Moderne purchased a monumental work. In 1953, The Vatican Museum commissioned a suite of four paintings. Caziel remained true to Abstraction until his death in 1988. In London his work was the subject of two one-man shows, 1966 and 1968, at the Grabowski gallery. A highly personal expression of his epicurean belief that painting and colour should bring joy, Caziel’s work of the 1950’s figures within the upbeat current which re-established Paris’ cultural identity in the aftermath of the Second World War Born in Poland in 1906, Caziel settled in Paris in 1946. Here he was soon regarded as a promising talent by artists such as Le Corbusier, Brancusi and Picasso, who put his signature to one of Caziel’s works. In 1946 Caziel designed the Polish pavilion for the UNESCO International Exhibition of Modern Art. In 1948 Caziel joined the group ‘Espace’, through which he received several commissions for murals from the architect Jean Ginsberg. 1948-1958, Caziel is invited alongside Picasso, Vasarely, Hans Hartung and Manessier to exhibit at the leading avant-garde Salon de Mai. In 1957, following his marriage to Catherine Sinclair, a Scottish aristocrat, Caziel settled in Ponthévrard, outside Paris. In 1969 Caziel moved his family to Somerset, where he died in 1988. Whitford Fine Art has represented the Caziel Estate since 1994 and this is their sixth show of his work. Date Information: 8th - 31th October 2008 10am - 6pm Monday - Friday Location Information: Whitford Fine Art 6 Duke Street St. James's London SW1Y 6BN |
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