The exhibition AFI(Ș)-OBIECT is a how it’s made presentation of Levente Benedek’s posters. The aim is to present the passage from fine art to applied art, from the art object to the graphic design of digital advertising. (The title involves a pun on Romanian afiș = “poster” and a fi = “to be”.)
Levente Benedek is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer and visual artist from Odorheiu Secuiesc, who now lives in Cluj-Napoca. He studied in the Faculty of Arts of West University of Timișoara, and has worked as a graphic artist at the Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre in Timișoara and at the Theatre of Youth in Piatra Neamț. His artistic activity includes theatre and film posters, social criticism posters, collages, paintings, works of textile art, installations, and assemblages, using a wide range of materials. He has displayed his work at personal and group exhibitions both in Romania (Timișoara, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Baia Mare, Târgu Mureș, Odorheiu Secuiesc, and Sfântu Gheorghe) and abroad (Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Thailand, China, and Mexico).