The independent creative career of outstanding sculptor and painter, Paris-based emigré Joseph Szabó (1925-2010), involves a rich oeuvre depicted as single great arc, ranging from Expressionism to Surrealism to Neo-Figurative art. He exhibited regularly in America, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and France, where he fled after the 1956 Uprising. From the 1960s, critics mentioned his name among the best contemporary artists, and from the mid-1970s, he was named among the greatest Surrealist painters. A multitude of dreamy, apocalyptic visions, followed by geometric, brightly coloured figures, faces, grids and stripes, appear on his canvases. His monumental sculptures can be seen in the public squares of several French cities.

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