Kovács, László Tamás Szeged, 17 January 1964 – Budapest, 1 June 2020) sculptor – graphic artist.
“Tamás Kovács, with his perfect knowledge of the Constructivist tradition, recreated and interpreted the early avant-garde conception, modernising its solutions” (Krisztina Passuth 2009).
‘I believe that I am a humble catalyst for the ideas of great predecessors and very serious masters. A catalyst by my own tight, terse formulation and veiled exuberance.”
Born on 17 January 1964 in Szeged. He finished high school in Eger, where his drawing teacher was the sculptor Lajos Dargay, who had a great influence on him.
In 1987 he qualified as a printing technician. He worked as a preparatory printer and graphic designer. His first job was designing postcards at the Lapkiadó Vállalat.
In 1988, he joined Tibor Csiky’s “Meditation” exhibition series.
In 1987-88, he was the art director of the M Gallery of the Technical University.
In 1988 he participated in Tibor Csiky’s “Meditation” exhibition series.
In 1987-88 he was the artistic director of the M Gallery at the Technical University of Budapest.
He has been a member of the MADi group since 1995.
From 2006 to 2016 he was a teacher at the camp in Szerence, led by János Fajó, until its closure.
From 2019-2020 he is a lecturer of art at the Győző Balázs Reformed Secondary School and the Unified Secondary School of Art.
For most of his life he worked as a freelancer, designing advertising graphics and corporate identity, but he also worked as a cosergic supervisor.
In 2011 he began to embrace his Jewish faith, graduating from the National Rabbinical School of Jewish Studies and officially converting in 2014. He wanted to go to Israel; he was going to Jerusalem to study mezuzah making.
Memberships:
Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists.
National Association of Hungarian Artists Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists Association of Hungarian Etchers and Lithographers Hungarian Society of Sculptors Participant of several national and international exhibitions. His works can be found in private collections and museums in Hungary and abroad.
He married Klára Tundó in 1993. They have organised many joint exhibitions under the title KTTK, formed from their initials.
They have two sons, András Tamás Kovács, an electrical engineer, and Mihály Mór Kovács, a sculptor.
Tamas Laszlo Kovacs is one of the most original talents of the younger generation, his career has been developing logically in front of us, one hand from his previous art-efforts, and other hand from his local and international experiment of art. His peculiar field, the metal-sculpture – or as an earlier inner sight the colourful, painted sculptures, or nowadays the silvery-shiny steel constructions, what are conserving the original brightness of the materials. Both of the techniques are representing a specific stylar approach, what originates from the Russian constructivist expression of the 1920’s.
Tamas Kovacs has recreated and interpreted the early avantgard thinking with the firm knowledge of the constructivist traditions, and modernised its solutions. The logical build of the colourful or luster structures, its reduced, clear world of colours, its particular silhouette effects are making him an unconventional artist. His large-sized paintings, what are crafted in a similar mood like his other art pieces, and are based on the same clear harmony of lines are luckily supplementing the impression of his sculptures. But beside the Russian origins, he is heavily connecting to the Hungarian ones too, just to mention the greatest names like Lajos Kassák, or the internationally famous Moholy-Nagy László or Schöffer.
Krisztina Passuth
Passuth Krisztina – Fekete, vörös, fehér.pdf
About my artistic activity
1979-2017 I had 63 solo exhibitions
1981-2017 I participated at 95 group exhibitions in Hungary
1984-2015 I participated at 58 international exhibitions
1996 I put on show my works in the Bálint Jewish Community House in Budapest
1999 I exhibited the second time in the Bálint Jewish Community House in Budapest
2006 Dr. Ákos Radó opened my exhibition in the Ceremonial Hall of the Szeged Jewish
Religious Community in the frame of the 2nd Szeged Jewish Festival
2006 I exhibited my works in the Szekszárd House of Arts, in the Old Sinagogue
2009 I exhibited my works in the Hall of Heroes of the Szeged Synagogue in the frame of
the 5th Szeged Jewish Festival
2011 I exhibited my works in the Hall of Heroes of the Szeged Synagogue in the frame of
the 7th Szeged Jewish Festival
My works can be found in several private and public collections.