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Xiyadie

BornNationalityBased In
1963ChineseN/A
Biography

Xiyadie is a self-taught traditional Chinese papercut artist who starting creating works with homoerotic themes to tell his narrative of transformation. Xiyadie means Siberian Butterfly, a name he chose after his move to Beijing as a migrant worker in 2005, where he found an accepting community in the burgeoning gay subcultural scene. As he relates, the Siberian Butterfly is a northern creature. Surviving in the harshest conditions, it maintains its vanity and pursuit of freedom in an environment that does not lend political agency or representation to queer-identifying people. In the late 1980s, his native Shaanxi Province was a centre for the preservation of folk arts including papercutting, which originates in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 CE). Xiyadie subverts this historical form by depicting scenes of queer eroticism, where human beings are fused with nature and gay virility combines with the fertility of gardens and animal life. Due to the thinness of Chinese rice paper traditionally used for this craft, each work is made in editions, though the artist also works with materials like newspaper and silk, intricately cut and dyed by hand. ...

Selected Artworks
Fish on a chopping board
XiyadieFish on a chopping board, 201828.5 x 30cmPrice on Request
Gate
XiyadieGate, 2016140 x 140cmPrice on Request
Boiling (A boiling pot resembles helplessness and suffering of humanity)
XiyadieBoiling (A boiling pot resembles helplessness and suffering of humanity), 201829.5 x 29.5cmPrice on Request
Butterfly
XiyadieButterfly, 200626 x 26cmPrice on Request
Door
XiyadieDoor, 198220 x 20cm4250 USD
Joy
XiyadieJoy, 198229.5 x 29.5cm4250 USD
Double happiness (Lovers are often together)
XiyadieDouble happiness (Lovers are often together), 201820 x 20cmPrice on Request
Fish on a chopping board (Human suffering, depression and helplessness are like a beheaded fish on a...
XiyadieFish on a chopping board (Human suffering, depression and helplessness are like a beheaded fish on a chopping board, but at this very moment we are still happy), 201820 x 20cm4250 USD
Flowerpot
XiyadieFlowerpot, 1991140 x 140cm30500 USD
Gate
XiyadieGate, 1992140 x 140cm30500 USD
Gate
XiyadieGate, 1999140 x 140cm30500 USD
Joy
XiyadieJoy, 199926 x 26cm4000 USD
Joy
XiyadieJoy, 1999140 x 140cm30500 USD
Joy (乐)
XiyadieJoy (乐), 1999Price on Request
Joy (乐)
XiyadieJoy (乐), 199920 x 20cmPrice on Request
Joy (乐)
XiyadieJoy (乐), 200520 x 20cmPrice on Request
Joy(乐)
XiyadieJoy(乐), 19994000 USD
Joy(乐)
XiyadieJoy(乐), 19994000 USD
Sorting sweet potatoes (Dad, don’t yell, we’re in the cellar sorting sweet potatoes)
XiyadieSorting sweet potatoes (Dad, don’t yell, we’re in the cellar sorting sweet potatoes), 2019140 x 140cm30500 USD
Sorting sweet potatos (Dad, don’t yell, we’re in the cellar sorting sweet potatoes)
XiyadieSorting sweet potatos (Dad, don’t yell, we’re in the cellar sorting sweet potatoes), 199930 x 30.5cmPrice on Request
Your lightbulb is fine (Such natural mutual love is part of human nature)
XiyadieYour lightbulb is fine (Such natural mutual love is part of human nature), 201820 x 20cmPrice on Request
Music
XiyadieMusic, 201630 x 30cm14291 USD