Lin Zhipeng aka No.223 - Mysterious Skin (Signed)

Lin Zhipeng is among the leading artists of the so-called generation of the eighties. Taking his name from a police character in Wong Kar-Wai’s movie Chungking Express, his work first gained notoriety through social media, online platforms and self-published zines. His diary-like booklets and photographs represent an emerging group in Chinese society that seeks to explore new boundaries in their lives.

Through Lin Zhipeng’s depictions of figures and nature mortes in flashy colours, flowers, interiors and nudes in soft colours, we see a new generation experimenting with novel pleasures unfamiliar to the conventional middle class world. The images are in an atmosphere of love, playfulness, eroticism and joy. His work is closely associated with the works of Guy Bourdin and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Mysterious Skin is a mood-inducing book stuck in its own temporality. Enriching the mundane with a spice of erotica, juicy fruit, and colourful flowers, 223 makes us want it all. Hungry for more, we are sipping from 223’s cocktail of vulnerability and experimentation.

Published on the occasion of the same name exhibition at Stieglitz19 Gallery in Antwerp in September 2023, doesn’t make the book secondary. At the event, they complemented each other yet maintained the ability to exist as separate entities. Having diaristic and optimistic qualities, Mysterious Skin is an object to be cherished in our libraries.

Publication Year: 2023
ISBN: 978-9-464363-44-9
Format: Softcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Size: 297 × 210 mm
Pages: 32
Condition: New
Signed