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Published: 19 July 2007

Computers do have an art after all

DAN Avenell describes his first solo exhibition as a “pop-art re-imagining” of his favourite cult icons, including Donald Sutherland, Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue and The Beatles.
His stylised images – currently on display at Bar Vinyl in Camden Town – are created first with pencil and ink, then scanned into Photoshop and finished digitally. The influences are obvious – comic books, pop art, film noir, rock’n’ roll, cult icons, what he calls “classic advertising” and trashy pop culture – all staples of post-modernist art. But while the images are perfectly pleasant, are computer-generated works like these really art?
“I don’t mind if people don’t consider it art,” the former club promoter says, from his home in Mornington Crescent.
“I have some issues with the way art is defined. If you put it in a gallery or an artist says that it’s art, does that make it art? It’s whether I find it pleasing or not.”

* The exhibition is at Bar Vinyl, Inverness Street, until August 9

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