In the years 1931–1937, he studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts under, among others, Teodor Axentowicz and Xawery Dunikowski, making his debut in 1939 at the exhibition of the “Kapists” group in the Krakow Artists’ House. After the war, he co-organised key formations of the Polish neo-avant-garde – “Young Visual Artists” and “The Moderns” – worked in Paris within the circle of Fernand Léger and the group “Le Surréalisme révolutionnaire”, and took part, among others, in the “Confrontations” at the Krzywe Koło Gallery and the 1st Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg. From the late 1950s onwards, he developed his own concept of Ars-horme (proclaimed in a manifesto in 1977), based on the analysis of de-semanticised signs and alphabets, palimpsest-like inscription, and work primarily on paper, which led to a multi-layered vision of reality close to postmodernist modes of thinking.