(CoinTelegraph) NYC Bitcoin Center is
fast becoming a mecca for hip Bitcoin-related events with the launch of a
contemporary art exhibition by Jenna Lash this week.
Contemporary
pointillist painter Lash has an international following for her work, and a
selection of those indexed under her Monetary Series collection will be
displayed in New York until September.
“The artwork in this exhibition is a visual
conversation about the exchange and aesthetic of money,” she said in a press release about the event, “The highly-charged images of currency and
how they represent personal values that become public values are the focus of
this exhibit.”
Mirroring opinion
“Highly-charged” indeed, as the Bitcoin community is making
ever more significant waves in modern opinion of traditional currency and the
structures surrounding it. “Money is an abstract concept based on
faith,” Lash continues, “…Will we continue to need vaults, gold, soldiers,
and insurers to protect that faith? Or will virtual currency be our
saving grace?”
The works themselves,
which “run the gamut of U.S. military
scrip, a U.S. silver certificate incorporating a Native American portrait, the Australian
Dollar, the Chinese Yuan, and two British Pound Notes, to highlight only a
few,” are hardly understated, some measuring up to 48 inches by 60 inches
(122 centimeters by 152 centimeters).
Center founder Nick
Spanos said he was excited about hosting the event, as Lash and her husband had
been regular visitors in the past. “We intend to give
the exhibition of these paintings the attention, care, and seriousness that the
works themselves demand,” he continued.
The exhibition will be marked by a
launch party tomorrow (May 29), and while not offering free energy drinks or
featuring sponsorship by the New York Museum of Sex as was the case with the
center’s music festival, it will provide a less business-oriented environment
for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency education to be spread.
More information about
the exhibition can be found
here.
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