Tamás Soós was born in 1955 in Budapest. He studied textiles at the Hungarian College of Applied Arts between 1980 and 1985. From 1987 to 1989 he was a Derkovits Fellow, in 1994 he was a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy in Rome, and in 1998 the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 1995 he had a large-scale solo exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. His works can be found in many private and international collections.
Tamás Soós's work as a participant in the new painting movement began in the eighties, when she painted abstract, metaphysical, mystical-heroic landscapes, and then Caravaggio paraphrases under Italian Mannerism, with which she created “quasi-baroque” metaphors.
In the late eighties symbolic forms appeared in his art. He calls them melancholy. These motifs are simple, yet ambivalent: ornaments in which there is the possibility of a message of an ancient culture, an archetypal value system.These motifs appear not only in his painting, but also in his sculpture, and in his rare and unique lithographs. The shape, reminiscent of black or monochromaticity on a homogeneous background, is reminiscent of figures. This repetition simultaneously lends unity, body, mass to the shapes and space depth to the homogeneous base.
