The Soul in the Line In the quiet streets of Košice, Slovakia, a creative spirit began to take shape in the winter of 1952. Alexander Bugan did not merely observe the world; he sought to dissect the very essence of human existence through the tip of a brush and the precision of a graphic tool. His early years were defined by a rigorous pursuit of form, leading him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. There, between 1971 and 1977,…