Artist Information:
Kopasz Tamas
Budapest,
Hungary
Member Since: Jun 2001
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Artist Statement:
"Tamás Kopasz is renewing
Hungarian plastic art, alike
Nancy Graves, American artist
of the seventies introduced a
new language in plastic art by
her colourful, applied
sculptures, Tamás Kopasz has
changed, enlarged the concept
of sculpture by his raw iron
sculptures. For him rich
surface work is part of
plastic value, plastic
meaning. After factured,
plastic ornamentalism and
almost chaotic gesture
painting he objectifies and
condenses his emotions in
fractured metal plates. He
concentrates abstract
picturesque world and private
emotions in his compositions.
Abstraction and personal
confession are in harmony,
subjective gestures, soldered
wounds, cracks, arching metal
strips all form a complex
plastic message.
In his painting depth,
stratification and plastic
protrusion have central role.
It was almost natural for him
to make relief plastics.
Stratification, absence,
craters. Building and
destruction. The beauty of
dying and erosion became an
important aesthetic category
of modern art, it is widely
used to indicate
transitoriness. However, Tamás
Kopasz can create the “fragile
harmony”. The surface and
colours of the wounded,
welded, polished and shiny
iron enlarges the field of
meaning for the plastics. The
appliedly wended iron plates,
the geometrical forms restrict
the use of gestures. Plastic
work led him...
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Artist Exhibitions:
1958 b. Szeged
1977-81 Academy of
Fine Arts
1987-9O Derkovits Scholarship
1989-9O
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant
199O Barcsay Prize winner
2OOO Munkácsy Prize
Member of:MAOE, Artists’
League, Allience of Graphic
Artists,Hungarian Painters’
Society, Society of Sculptors,
KIPE 13
Individual Exhibitions:
1983 Szeged, Youth House...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Born 1958 Szeged,Hungary
1977-81 Academy of Fine
Arts,Faculty of
Painting,Budapest
1987-90 Derkovits Scholarship
1989-90
Pollock-KrasnerFoundation
Scholarship
1991 Barcsay Foundation Prize
2000 Munkácsy Prize
Member of the Hungarian
Foundation for the Arts and
the Hungarian Artists
Association...
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Collections:
Library of Békéscsaba
Hungarian National Gallery
Gallery of Szombathely
Nagykőrös, Mayor’s Office
Sczecin, Modern Museum
(Poland)
München, Mayor’s Office
(Deutschland)
Studio Archives, Young
Artists’ Studio
Paks, Modern Gallery
Dunaújváros, Art-Today
Foundation
Salzburg, City Collection
(Austria)
Kisújszállás, City...
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Commissions:
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Kopasz Tamas's Free Artist Portfolio
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