TIBOR SIMON-MAZULA

This exhibition is part of an ongoing cultural exchange between the Liszt Institute and Seoul Art Now, built over several years. The show will feature over 20 paintings, including the artist’s latest works created between 2024 and 2025, alongside key pieces from the collections of Korean collectors.

Simon-Mazula’s practice centers on layered brushstrokes, erasures, and overlays—visual strategies that evoke the traces of emotions and the spaces where memories once lingered. His recurring subjects include hushed forests, aging trees in city parks, and portraits of his wife Diana. “Rather than restoring emotions,” the artist explains, “I want to leave behind the spaces they once occupied.”

His paintings are not depictions of singular moments but landscapes of accumulation—textural terrains where material and time converge. Each layer of color and gesture builds a quiet architecture of disappearance and remembrance. In an era flooded with fleeting images, his work reclaims the canvas as a place to slowly reconstruct emotional density.

Simon-Mazula has held solo exhibitions across Hungary, the United States, and China, and has garnered notable attention from international collectors—selling out his presentations at art fairs in Taiwan for three consecutive years. In 2023, he achieved the same result in Korea, with all exhibited works sold. His paintings are housed in major American collections, and in recognition of his artistic achievement, he received an official commendation from the Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center Seoul.

Through this exhibition, Seoul Art Now Gallery highlights Simon-Mazula’s introspective exploration of emotion, memory, and time through a refined contemporary painting language, offering Korean audiences a poignant and immersive experience.