Is Bank It has been announced that İş Sanat’s new exhibition will open on the metaverse. It has also been determined which blockchain will be used for the exhibition titled “A Walk on the Bosphorus with Paintings”. Here is the blockchain preferred by İşbank.
It is now a fact that Metaverse is one of the most popular concepts in the world. As such, steps have been taken in this regard in our country as well. İşbank, which also had an advertising experience in this regard, is preparing to open a metaverse art exhibition to improve this experience. While the restoration of the building, which will house the rich painting collection created since the 1940s, continues in Beyoğlu, İş Sanat NFT exhibition will also open.
The exhibition titled “A Walk on the Bosphorus with Paintings” is a popular blockchain Decentraland will be on the platform. In the exhibition, works by master names such as Hikmet Onat, Şeref Akdik, Zeki Faik İzer, İbrahim Safi, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, which are in the İşbank Painting Collection, are also on display. The theme of the exhibition will be the blues and shores of Istanbul.
Preview Invitations are in the Distribution
In the exhibition, which will be opened to visitors on the Decentraland platform, which was established in a decentralized structure using the blockchain infrastructure, the paintings of master painters, whose works are in the İşbank Painting Collection, will meet the visitors as NFT.
— İş Sanat (@issanat) April 1, 2022
If you want an NFT invitation specifically for the preview, you can access the page in the tweet above and transfer the invitation to your wallet. NFT invitation distribution will last until April 4th. İşbank announced that the exhibition will be held between 5-7 April. It was also stated that the use of NFT invitations in smart contracts is limited to only one thousand. After the preview, the exhibition will continue between 8-20 April without any invitation. İşbank introduced the exhibition with the following words:
“A Walk Through the Bosphorus in Paintings” is a painting exhibition designed in the Metaverse universe. A privileged selection from the rich painting collection created since the 1940s is presented in the exhibition, which was prepared by İş Sanat and whose technological setup was completed in cooperation with the innovation centers of Türkiye İş Bankası and Softtech, the bank’s technology subsidiary, in Turkey and China. In the Bank’s historical building in Beyoğlu, Prof. Dr. A “tasting” selection of Istanbul paintings, which is planned to be the first temporary exhibition of the Painting Museum to be established under the founding curator of Gül İrepoğlu, is meeting with its audience through technological innovations.”
It was stated that augmented reality (AR) technology will also be used in the exhibition. Thanks to this technology, the physical and digital experience of the exhibited NFT works will be combined and the user experience will be increased. The exhibition was digitized in cooperation with Softttech Turkey and an innovation center in China.