No. 223 Lin Zhipeng

Archival Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag-Fine Art (308g)

Tirages pigmentaires d'archivage sur papier Hahnemuhle Photo Rag-fine Art (308 g)

Middle Size / Moyen Format
Edition : 10
Editions 1-5 € 1,400, Edition 6-8 € 1,750, Edition 9-10 € 2,100
Paper size / Taille de papier : 58cm x 41cm
Image zise / Taille d'image : 50cm x 33cm

Large Format / Grand Format
Edition : 5
Editions 1-3 € 2,800, Editions 4-5 € 4,200
Paper size / Taille de papier 108cm x 75cm
Image size / Taille d'image : 100x67cm

From Polaroid Middle Size / Moyen Format
Edition : 10
Editions 1-5 € 1,500, Editions 6-8 € 1,900, Editions 9-10 € 2,250
Paper size / Taille de papier : 56cm x 67cm
Image zise / Taille d'image : 50cm x 61cm

From Polaroid Large Format / Grand Format
Edition : 5
Editions 1-3 € 3,000, Editions 4-5 € 4,500
Paper size / Taille de papier : 110cm x 108cm
Image zise / Taille d'image : 102cm x 100cm

Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223) is a leading figure of new Chinese photography emerging in the last decade, popularizing his work originally via social media and other online platforms as well as his self-published zines. Lin’s work has come to reflect and define a certain zeitgeist of the post-80’s and 90’s generation of non-mainstream Chinese youth. Amidst an otherwise conservative and often closed traditional society and cultural background, Lin’s photographs act as a collective not-so-private diary of a young generation wishing to escape the pressures from a high-stakes society and play within its limits. Faded flowers tangled with flesh tones, myriad patterns mixing with an emotional ambiguity of both love and chaos, fantasy and eroticism. 223’s works are saturated with a soft sense of carefreeness, a playful innocence, and a certain optimism amidst a hedonist lifestyle going against the expected pleasures and entrapments of the middle-class dream.

Naming himself “No. 223” after the police character in Wong Kar-Wai’s movie Chungking Express, Lin Zhipeng also adopts a sense of the Hong Kong director’s poetic and dreamy atmosphere as well as the loneliness and mystery of many of his film’s characters. Lin Zhipeng offers his point of view on an alternative youth spirit and culture in an often conservatively Chinese cultural context. His spontaneous photographs portray a young generation who indulge in love and life, oscillating between jubilation and deep melancholy, playful sexuality and often just the simple human need to be loved in an otherwise indifferent and ever-changing society.

Born in Guangdong in 1979, Lin Zhipeng is a photographer and freelance writer based in Beijing. Created in 2003, his blog “North Latitude 23” where he published everyday pictures accompanied by short texts received millions of views and made him famous among the web community. His photographs have been featured in numerous publications such a Vice and Voices of Photography magazines, as well as the book New Photography in China (2006). Presented for ten years in group exhibitions in China (Lianzhou International Photography Festival, 2008; 2014) and abroad (Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, 2013), Lin Zhipeng’s works have recently been the object of several solo shows both nationally and internationally (Loppis Galleria Parma, 2014; De Sarthe Gallery Beijing, 2016; Stieglitz19 Gallery Antwerp, 2016).

Archival Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag-Fine Art (308g)

Tirages pigmentaires d'archivage sur papier Hahnemuhle Photo Rag-fine Art (308 g)

Middle Size / Moyen Format
Edition : 10
Editions 1-5 € 1,400, Edition 6-8 € 1,750, Edition 9-10 € 2,100
Paper size / Taille de papier : 58cm x 41cm
Image zise / Taille d'image : 50cm x 33cm

Large Format / Grand Format
Edition : 5
Editions 1-3 € 2,800, Editions 4-5 € 4,200
Paper size / Taille de papier 108cm x 75cm
Image size / Taille d'image : 100x67cm

From Polaroid Middle Size / Moyen Format
Edition : 10
Editions 1-5 € 1,500, Editions 6-8 € 1,900, Editions 9-10 € 2,250
Paper size / Taille de papier : 56cm x 67cm
Image zise / Taille d'image : 50cm x 61cm

From Polaroid Large Format / Grand Format
Edition : 5
Editions 1-3 € 3,000, Editions 4-5 € 4,500
Paper size / Taille de papier : 110cm x 108cm
Image zise / Taille d'image : 102cm x 100cm

Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223) is a leading figure of new Chinese photography emerging in the last decade, popularizing his work originally via social media and other online platforms as well as his self-published zines. Lin’s work has come to reflect and define a certain zeitgeist of the post-80’s and 90’s generation of non-mainstream Chinese youth. Amidst an otherwise conservative and often closed traditional society and cultural background, Lin’s photographs act as a collective not-so-private diary of a young generation wishing to escape the pressures from a high-stakes society and play within its limits. Faded flowers tangled with flesh tones, myriad patterns mixing with an emotional ambiguity of both love and chaos, fantasy and eroticism. 223’s works are saturated with a soft sense of carefreeness, a playful innocence, and a certain optimism amidst a hedonist lifestyle going against the expected pleasures and entrapments of the middle-class dream.

Naming himself “No. 223” after the police character in Wong Kar-Wai’s movie Chungking Express, Lin Zhipeng also adopts a sense of the Hong Kong director’s poetic and dreamy atmosphere as well as the loneliness and mystery of many of his film’s characters. Lin Zhipeng offers his point of view on an alternative youth spirit and culture in an often conservatively Chinese cultural context. His spontaneous photographs portray a young generation who indulge in love and life, oscillating between jubilation and deep melancholy, playful sexuality and often just the simple human need to be loved in an otherwise indifferent and ever-changing society.

Born in Guangdong in 1979, Lin Zhipeng is a photographer and freelance writer based in Beijing. Created in 2003, his blog “North Latitude 23” where he published everyday pictures accompanied by short texts received millions of views and made him famous among the web community. His photographs have been featured in numerous publications such a Vice and Voices of Photography magazines, as well as the book New Photography in China (2006). Presented for ten years in group exhibitions in China (Lianzhou International Photography Festival, 2008; 2014) and abroad (Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, 2013), Lin Zhipeng’s works have recently been the object of several solo shows both nationally and internationally (Loppis Galleria Parma, 2014; De Sarthe Gallery Beijing, 2016; Stieglitz19 Gallery Antwerp, 2016).