Contact: Cristan Ostafi Cell: 908-461-6636
Middletown Assembly of God 628 Palmer Ave Middletown New Jersey 07748
August
7 2016 in Middletown, New Jersey, The Middletown Assembly of God will
host tContact: Cristan Ostafi Cell:
908-461-6636
Middletown Assembly of God 628 Palmer Ave Middletown New Jersey 07748
August
7 2016 in Middletown, New Jersey, The Middletown Assembly of God will
host the unveiling and Mission Dedication of Cristian Ostafi’s Glass
Sculpture “The Face of Jesus”
The
unveiling ceremony begins with Worship Service at 9:30 am, follow by
Sculpture Unveiling and Mission dedication at 10 am and Dr Dan Coreea’s
Sermon 10:30 am
The
artist, Cristan Ostafi, 59, of Holmdel, Monmouth County, grew up in
Communist Romania and was blacklisted as a teenager because of his
involvement with the arts. He was forced to escape along with wife
Codruta the dictatorship in 1986, when they immigrated to the United
States.
As
a boy, Ostafi, grew up in a family of legalistic Baptists in Communist
Romania that made him to revolt and stay away from any religion
manifestation for many years. In order to win de long argumentative
discussions with parents, family and pastors, Ostafi studied and deeply
analyzed the Old and New Testament.
At
age 15, Ostafi joined the George Sabau’s KinemaIkon Group for
Avant-garde Visual Communication, which was under surveillance by the
dictatorship communist regime. “The group served as a platform for free
speech and the promotion of ideas subversive to mainstream art in this
country,” Ostafi said, adding that the group became one of the catalysts
for the 1989 Romanian Anticommunist Revolution.
Ostafi
earned a master’s degree in Chemical Textile engineering from
Polytechnic Institute in Jassy, Romania, in 1982. He went on to receive a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communication from Popular University
(KinemaIkon) in Arad, Romania, in 1984.
Ostafi
emerged as a leader of visual communication in the Moldavian city of
Jassy. He was one of the founders of a student-run group that taught
thousands of other students the art visual communication He also opened
several photography shows, cooperated with anticommunist groups, created
three short films that won national awards, authored books and directed
plays in his native country.
But
it was it was a dream in the night of July 16, 1993, in Atlanta,
Georgia, when God appeared to Ostafi in dream and announced his plan for
Ostafi’s life. God gave Ostafi a dream of flying, free of Laws of
Physics, and the power of touching people and make them fly. That
morning, Ostafi woke up feeling a major transformation in the heart,
Ostafi felt the real renovated Pace in his heart. Ostafi was very happy
as a new man.
Next
year 1994, by the inspiration of Holy Spirit, Ostafi and his wife
Codruta began “Project 153” a series of Christian Abstract paintings
with a new artistic media technique based on Bible (John 21:11) that
changed recently in monumental mosaic stained glass sculptures.
On
the night of November 9th 2015 at 11:42pm, Evangelist Jean Ann
DiBenedeto of Deeper Conference wrote on Facebook the followings: “My
brother, I was looking at that amazing picture of the stained glass
Jonah - all I can say is WOW! Is there any possible way you can make a
mosaic that looks like the face of Jesus?” With the synergy of colors
perfectly balanced with visual liquidity of the forms, the sculpture is
proclaiming Jesus offering unconditional love and openness for
salvation for everybody. “The Face of Jesus” is the answer of that late
night request.
Meet the artist and team after the service in the art gallery exhibiting paints and sculpture of Ostafi’s.
he unveiling and Mission Dedication of Cristian Ostafi’s Glass Sculpture “The Face of Jesus”
The
unveiling ceremony begins with Worship Service at 9:30 am, follow by
Sculpture Unveiling and Mission dedication at 10 am and Dr Dan Coreea’s
Sermon 10:30 am
The
artist, Cristan Ostafi, 59, of Holmdel, Monmouth County, grew up in
Communist Romania and was blacklisted as a teenager because of his
involvement with the arts. He was forced to escape along with wife
Codruta the dictatorship in 1986, when they immigrated to the United
States.
As
a boy, Ostafi, grew up in a family of legalistic Baptists in Communist
Romania that made him to revolt and stay away from any religion
manifestation for many years. In order to win de long argumentative
discussions with parents, family and pastors, Ostafi studied and deeply
analyzed the Old and New Testament.
At
age 15, Ostafi joined the George Sabau’s KinemaIkon Group for
Avant-garde Visual Communication, which was under surveillance by the
dictatorship communist regime. “The group served as a platform for free
speech and the promotion of ideas subversive to mainstream art in this
country,” Ostafi said, adding that the group became one of the catalysts
for the 1989 Romanian Anticommunist Revolution.
Ostafi
earned a master’s degree in Chemical Textile engineering from
Polytechnic Institute in Jassy, Romania, in 1982. He went on to receive a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communication from Popular University
(KinemaIkon) in Arad, Romania, in 1984.
Ostafi
emerged as a leader of visual communication in the Moldavian city of
Jassy. He was one of the founders of a student-run group that taught
thousands of other students the art visual communication He also opened
several photography shows, cooperated with anticommunist groups, created
three short films that won national awards, authored books and directed
plays in his native country.
But
it was it was a dream in the night of July 16, 1993, in Atlanta,
Georgia, when God appeared to Ostafi in dream and announced his plan for
Ostafi’s life. God gave Ostafi a dream of flying, free of Laws of
Physics, and the power of touching people and make them fly. That
morning, Ostafi woke up feeling a major transformation in the heart,
Ostafi felt the real renovated Pace in his heart. Ostafi was very happy
as a new man.
Next
year 1994, by the inspiration of Holy Spirit, Ostafi and his wife
Codruta began “Project 153” a series of Christian Abstract paintings
with a new artistic media technique based on Bible (John 21:11) that
changed recently in monumental mosaic stained glass sculptures.
On the night of November 9th
2015 at 11:42pm, Evangelist Jean Ann DiBenedeto of Deeper Conference
wrote on Facebook the followings: “My brother, I was looking at that
amazing picture of the stained glass Jonah - all I can say is WOW! Is
there any possible way you can make a mosaic that looks like the face of
Jesus?” With the synergy of colors perfectly balanced with visual
liquidity of the forms, the sculpture is proclaiming Jesus offering
unconditional love and openness for salvation for everybody. “The Face
of Jesus” is the answer of that late night request.
Meet the artist and team after the service in the art gallery exhibiting paints and sculpture of Ostafi’s.