Cyberangels Fly to Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, from Israel Museum in Jerusalem

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 uptowards 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 ascend into The Cloud, the network of networks, from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and go down at the Spanish Synagogue, a part of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

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: Pixilated Angel Stopping Abraham, serigraph by Mel Alexenberg inspired by Rembrandt, printed at Brand X Press in New York. Exhibited in Mel Alexenberg's one person exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Prague in 2004.  

Opening of exhibition "Mel Alexenberg: Cyberangels/Aesthetic Peace Plan for the Middle East" at the Robert Guttmann Gallery, Jewish Museum in Prague, on 12 August 2004. The artist explains his peace plan to the ambassadors to the Czech Republic from Israel and the United States. 

The exhibition proposes that peace in the Middle East can emerge from a fresh metaphor in which the Arabs see Israel’s existence as Allah’s will. This metaphor, derived from Islamic art and thought, invites a shift in perception in which the conflict is seen as aesthetic problem that requires an artistic solution. On the wall is Alexenberg's computer-generated painting of Rembrandt cyberangels carrying a message of peace from the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa with a overall pattern from a Damascus mosque.