Biography

Tamás Sabó was born in 1952 in Budapest. Between 1974 and 1979 he attended at the Hungarian College of Applied Arts, where he specialized on glass arts. He lives in Budapest and he works on the artist colony of “Százados” street. He is a member of the Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists Association, the MAOE (The National Association of Hungarian artists), the Hungarian Association of Sculptors; from 2007 he is the member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. In 2005 he established the MORPH group, including the five sculptors (István Drabik, József Gaál, Attila Mata, Tamás Szabó, László Taubert), together with it he has been participating a number of domestic and foreign (Berlin, Vienna, Moscow) exhibition.

His works was recognized by numerous awards (including the Munkácsy Prize in 2000), he was awarded on a lot of domestic and international biennials and exhibitions. His works can be found in several museums (Ottó Herman Museum, Miskolc, János Tornyai Museum, Hódmezővásárhely, János Xantus Museum, Győr, and in the KOGART Contemporary Art Collection in Budapest).

In the early 80s, he modeled small bronze figures, with highly sensitive sculptural decoration, as well as very strong gestures. He created heads without individual characteristics, sometimes carved from stones, which face has shockingly painful expressions. On his paintings and drawings the figures are located in the hardly indicated space, which having no depth, only houses the gesture. Tamás Szabó works theme is the human body; how can the movement, the gesture reflex the spiritual, emotional states.