Cryptoart Cyberangels of Peace Herald Meeting of Israel’s President with UAE Crown Prince
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog was greeted warmly on his arrival in Abu Dhabi by UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan who had invited him to visit United Arab Emirates.
This historic meeting is being celebrated by American-Israeli artist Mel Alexenberg by launching Rembrandt inspired Cyberangels of Peace on virtual flights from Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam to Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in UAE.
These Cyberangels of Peace came alive through the words of President Herzog: “I am bringing with me a blessing of peace and a message of peace to the entire region, to the peoples of the region. Peace brings with it prosperity, progress, and growth for the benefits of the peoples of the region.”
?To document these cyberangel flights, Alexenberg is creating NFT crypto artworks as gifts for the Israel Museum and to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Israel Museum and Louvre Abu Dhabi will be the first museums in the Middle East to have crypto artworks in their art collections.
Just as digital artworks have found their homes in museums worldwide since the 1980’s, crypto artworks are entering museum collections in America and Europe today.
The cryptoart image for the Israel Museum shows Alexenberg launching a Cyberangel of Peace from Rembrandt’s studio in Rembrandt House Museum where the great master created etchings showing angels going up and down a ladder as in Jacob’s dream. The cyberangels fly from Amsterdam to the Israel Museum’s Shrine of the Book where ancient Bible scrolls are housed.?
The image for the Louvre Abu Dhabi shows cyberangel flight from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem into the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in celebration of the Abraham Accords.
Mel Alexenberg’s pioneering digital artwork “Angel Ascending from the Land of Israel,” a computer generated serigraph, has been in the collection of the?Israel Museum since 1987 when he created it at the Israel Museum affiliated Burston Graphics Center. At the time, he was head of the art department at Pratt Institute, America’s leading college of art, and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
These cyberangels ascending for the Holy Land are a major part of his "Digitized Homage to Rembrandt” series that is in the collections of 30 museums worldwide, from the Israel Museum to the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, to the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam.
(From Times of Israel)