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In issue 5:
David Austen asks if it’s true whether Enzo Cucchi gets away with flouting Italian law by smoking in the capitals’ restaurants in his film essay, ‘Man Smoking’, followed Martin Westwood’s essay on David Austen’s work.
State side and exiled: Turps Banana lifts the curtain on the enduring power of John Walker, and Andy Holden gets to grips with the relationship between psychoanalysis and painting in his interview with the British abstract painter Alan Davie.
Merlin James examines parallels between Wittgenstein and Andre Dérain.
Martin Constable explores the influence of classical painting on George Lucas’ digital re-mastering of Star Wars.
Toon time. Gerald Hemsworth’s new works reflected on by his long-standing associate Michael Stubbs.
A year of paintings – Dan Hays engages with Fugue, a collective series of over 200 small watercolours by Roderick Harris. And by counterpoint, Marc Hulson exposes Dan Hays’ ‘excuse’ for painting and the influence of digital photography in his work.
The exclusive Turps Banana Cartoon is a radical new work by The Chapmans.
And Turps introduces the emerging talents of Jeremy Butler and Julian Wakelin.
As ever, an issue filled with the most divergent practices both in London and worldwide.
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