Title: Lu Xiaoben
Photographer/s: Ruben Lundgren / WassinkLundgren
Contributor/s: Preface by Rudolf Simon Bekink and text by Yang Lin
Date of publication: September 2010
Place of publication: Beijing
Dimensions: 20 X 34cm
Edition size: 1500
Type of binding: concertina book / leporello
Number of pages: 2 meter / 10 pages
Number of pictures: 42
Type of printing: Offset
Publisher: Badger & Press in association with WassinkLundgren
Designer: Liu Zhizhi (mewe)
Editor: Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren
Language: English / Chinese
ISBN: 978-988-18966-1-2
Category: Artist Book
Price: €12.00
Summary: The publication “Lu Xiao Ben” shows a body of work created by WassinkLudgren during the three years of Lundgren’s postgraduate studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The series explores cultural differences by using Lundgren’s 200 cm height as a tool.
On an early winter day in October 2007 the outlines for this project were written down in a practice notebook for Chinese characters:
1) When I walk on the street of Beijing I feel like a celebrity.
2) Many people look at me.
3) This feeling I want to use for my new project.
4) My goal: be a celebrity in China before graduation.
5) Today I start!
It’s now three years that Lundgren has followed this statement and used the daily amount of Chinese attention to create a series of images playing with the perception of stardom and otherness.
A two meter long leporello book with life size image of “Lu Xiaoben” (Chinese for Ruben Lundgren). The book explores cultural differences between China and the West, using his 200cm height as a tool to become a Chinese celebrity.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 11-09-81, Deventer, NL / 09-06-83, Hilversum, NL
Website: www.wassinklundgren.com
Book link: www.wassinklundgren.com/bookshop
Donated by: WassinkLundgren
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