Artist Mel Alexenberg
launches cyberangels from Israel to thirty museums throughout the world as
an homage to Rembrandt on the 350th anniversary of his death. These
museums have Rembrandt inspired artworks by Alexenberg in their
collections. At Global Tribute to
Rembrandt are posts for each of the museums and texts on
the impact of digital culture on art by the artist, former art professor
at Columbia University and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual
Studies.
“He had a vision in a dream. A ladder was standing on the
ground, its top reaching up towards heaven as Divine angels were going up and
down on it.” (Genesis 28:12)
Angels in Jacob’s dream go up from the Land of Israel and
go down throughout the world.
Top image: Rembrandt inspired cyberangels arrive from the Shrine
of the Book of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem at the Queen Victoria Museum and
Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Middle image: Cyberangels spiral up from a NASA satellite
image of the Land of Israel on a smartphone screen on Mel Alexenberg’s newest
book Through a
Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media. They
launch the book throughout the world from the artist/author’s studio in Israel.
See praise for the book at Israel365.
Bottom image: Alexenberg’s lithograph “Digitized Homage to
Rembrandt: Day Angels” that has been in the collection of the Queen Victoria
Museum and Art Gallery since 1987. In tribute to Rembrandt on the
350th year of his death, his digitized angels dormant in the
museum’s flat files awaken to adorn the cover of the 2019 book Through
a Bible Lens. The Rembrandt inspired cyberangels fly from the
book cover to the Southern Hemisphere to land on the island of Tasmania.
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