Photomonitor and Daniel Blau Ltd are pleased to present an evening of collaboration. On Wednesday, 16th May 2012, beginning at 7 pm, two artist talks will highlight the importance of artistic collaboration, with WassinkLundgren and Anthony Luvera each presenting their practice and the varied aspects of collaboration in their work.
WassinkLundgren is a partnership between Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren, which began in 2005 after they both graduated from the Utrecht School of Arts, The Netherlands. Through collaboration, they make work often described as conceptual documentary photography.
In 2007 they published Empty Bottles, which won the prestigious Prix du Livre for Best Contemporary Photobook at the Rencontres d’Arles Photofestival, was nominated by Thomas Weski as ‘Best Photography Book of 2007-8’ at the Kasseler Fotoforum, and was included by Martin Parr as one of the thirty ‘best books of the decade’ exhibition and catalogue presented at Photo Ireland 2011. Other publications include WassinkLundgren is Still Searching (2006), Lu Xiaoben (2010) and Tokyo Tokyo (2010) which is currently on show as part of Hijacked III at QUAD, Derby. The same body of work can also be seen at State of the Art at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf and as part of The Dutch Photobook since 1945 at the Dutch Photo Museum in Rotterdam.
Wassink lives in London, where he finished an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Lundgren lives in Beijing, where he recently finished an MA at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. On 16th May they will both be in the same city to talk about their work and collaboration at Daniel Blau Gallery.

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