TAMÁS SZABÓ
Budapest, Hungary
Ars Poetica
’You know, I am an artist working with a traditional spirit, thought I wouldn’t even say traditional, but classical. The more I understand about the multifaceted usage of materials in contemporary art, about the incorporation of ephemeral materials into works of art, I feel stronger that I cannot depart from noble materials. After all, how else could artistic thought and action survive over the period of centuries?’ (Excerpt from an interview with Tamás Szabó, 2011)
Tamás Szabó Curriculum Vitae / Short
Graduated in glass design at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts in 1979, but he has been exclusively focusing on fine arts since 1980. Worked at the Collective Atelier on Lehel Street between 1980 and 1987, since 1987 he has been living and working at the artist colony on Százados út, Budapest. He taught at the Open Art School in Mártely between 1980 and 2000. He has been rewarded with Munkácsy Award in 2000. Associate professor at the Art and Art History Department of Gyula Juhász Faculty of Education of the University of Szeged between 2007-2018. He has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts since 2007. His work has been showcased in various single and group exhibitions (Germany, Netherland, Austria etc…). Tamás Szabó’s various paintings and sculptures are part of private and public art collections. His figurative, monumental public sculptures can be found, among others, in Salgótarján (1956 Hungarian Revolution Monument, 1990–91) and in Budapest (Carl Lutz Memorial, 1990–91; see more pictures here)
