Stage, dream space | Exhibition of Endre Simon

He was born on 19 Oc­to­ber in 1936 in Szé­kes (today: Săcăreni, Ro­ma­nia) in Maros County in Transyl­va­nia. He gra­du­a­ted from the Fine Arts Se­con­dary Scho­ol in Ma­ros­vá­sár­hely (Târgu Mureș, Ro­ma­nia) in 1954 and then re­ce­i­ved his art tea­ch­ing deg­ree from the De­part­ment of Paint­ing at the Ion And­re­es­cu Aca­demy of Fine Arts in Ko­lozs­vár (Cluj) in 1960. His ma­s­ters were And­rás Bordy, Ist­ván Incze, Gábor Pis­kol­ti, The­o­dor Harșia, Gábor Mik­lós­sy, Petre Ab­ru­dan and Petru Feier. In the pe­ri­ods of 1960–1967 and 1972–1986 he wor­ked as a mus­e­ol - ogist at the Ma­ros­vá­sár­hely Gal­lery and for a short time as its di­rec­tor. He or­ga­ni­sed nu­me­rous ex­hi­bit­ions and pub­lis­hed ca­ta­lo­gues here to­get­her with And­rás Bordy, Fe­renc Sü­kösd and György Ola­riu (Ghe­org­he Ola­riu). He was the layout-edi­tor of the pe­ri­o­di­cal Új Élet [New Life] in Ma­ros­vá­sár­hely from 1986 to 1990, as well as the edi­tor of its arts co­lumn. He wor­ked at va­ri­o­us ar­tists’ co­lo­ni­es: in Árkos (Arcuș, 1973), Szár­hegy (Lăzarea, 1974–1991), Mar­ca­li (1991), the Haj­dú­ság (1991) and in the Hor­to­bágy (1992). He held the title of vice-pres­ident of the Mik­lós Ba­ra­bás Guild from 1997 to 2002. He re­sett­led in Hun­gary in 2003. Since then he has lived and wor­ked here with his son, the gra­phic ar­tist Zsolt Simon, with whom he sha­res a stu­dio.

His works of fine art are pri­ma­rily lands­ca­pes, port­ra­its and still-lifes, as well as ab­st­ract com­po­sit­ions dat­ing from the se­cond half of the six­ti­es and after. His fi­gu­ra­tive and non-fi­gu­ra­tive paint­ings are cha­rac­te­ri­sed by a sugg­es­ti­vely co­lo­ur­ful pa­let­te. He also wor­ked as a gra­phic ar­tist de­sign­ing pos­ters and com­mer­ci­als as well as mak­ing il­lustra­tions. He had solo ex­hi­bit­ions in Ma­ros­vá­sár­hely, Csík­sze­re­da, Deb­re­cen, Kar­cag, Sár­vár, Bu­da­pest and other pla­ces but his pic­tu­res were also ex­hi­bi­ted not only in the big ci­ti­es of Euro­pe but also in the USA, Ca­na­da, China, Aust­ra­lia and New Ze­aland. His works can be found in pri­vate and pub­lic coll­ec­tions in Ro­ma­nia, Hun­gary and other count­ri­es.

 

Cura­tors: György Szücs, Zol­tán Rocken­ba­u­er

 

Vir­tu­al tour

Stage, dream space | Ex­hi­bit­ion of Endre Simon

Szín­tér, álom­tér | Simon Endre ki­ál­lí­tá­sa
2021. August 27. - October 17.

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