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Best Transylvania-Born Artistic Visionary

Josef Kristofoletti

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photo by Sandy Carson

Born in Nagyvarad, Transylvania, in 1980, Austin-based artist Josef Kristofoletti might well be pardoned for a dreary disposition. Yet Kristofoletti is a vocal, engaged presence, willing to work heedlessly across multiple media and platforms. As the artist-in-residence at CERN, for instance, he designed the magnificent Higgs Boson mural, a process documented in The Atlas Detector. These days, Kristofoletti's work focuses on technology and public intervention, and he is in progress on a new 10-story mural on Second Street. To top it off, he also creates posters for films like Ivete Lucas' and Patrick Bresnan's "Roadside Attraction." Talk about distinctive.