08/01/2025
Truly honored to have my new solo exhibition “Free Love Chronicles” in Milan, presented by gallery Glenda Cinquegrana Welcome~~~
Lin Zhipeng
Free Love Chronicles
Curated by Rebecca Delmenico.
Opening: Thursday, January 9th, 2024, 6.30 pm
From January 10th to March 22nd, 2024
From Tuesday to Saturday, from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
Repost
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is glad to present Free Love Chronicles, the solo exhibition 10 years after the first Italian show dedicated to Chinese photographer Lin Zhipeng and curated by Rebecca Delmenico.
The title of the show Free Love Chronicles is the story of a photography project which, dating back 20 years, from mere chronicle has been turned into a large photography corpus: the protagonists of the gallery of portraits are friends of the photographer or acquaintances met on the web with whom the artist forms a very tight human and intimate bond by the means of his images. The narrative is light and gritty, poised between tenderness and melancholy. Its protagonist is freed sexuality, the fruit of the desire to express oneself beyond any kind of prejudice. Zhipeng and his young protagonists share the vision of the practice of photography as a tool freeing them from their most genuine and authentic vital energy, of which love, food and sexuality are an integral part. As Delmenico writes the works of Lin Zhipeng are saturated with a tender sense of lightness and playful innocence to express a natural and free lifestyle made of understanding of the world and freedom.
Lin Zhipeng’s photography grammar feeds on free associations among apparently distant elements, capable of creating a language which is more hinting than direct: the figurative free associations are such that they recreate an atmosphere and a feeling in which an entire generation mirrors.