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Tamás Soós (1955) is one of the most distinguished representatives of his generation which emerged in the 1980s. Soós have built his unique oeuvre by adjusting it to a metanarrative scheme in which calligraphic abstract expressionism, monochrome simplicity, variegated postmodern and playful irony harmonise with one other. In the past years Soós has been working with his personal iconography christened "baroque melancholy" as well as his "soul archetypes" of human figures. The resulting statues are sometimes dramatic human figures made of millboard, sometimes soap-coloured …