Xiyadie : queer cut utopias / Hera Chan, Rosario Güiraldes, Alvin Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xiyadie, 1963- artist.

Hoptman, Laura J., 1962- author of introduction, etc.

Güiraldes, Rosario, author.

Chan, Hera, author.

Li, Alvin, author.

Contributor:

Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.

Series:

Drawing papers ; 152.

Drawing papers ; 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xiyadie, 1963---Exhibitions.

Xiyadie.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

95 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Queer cut utopias

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Drawing Center, [2023]

Summary:

The first publication to document and explore the work of Chinese paper-cut artist Xiyadie (b. 1963), Queer Cut Utopias features a selection of the artist's astonishingly intricate works dating from the early 1980s through today. Xiyadie's singular artistic language originated in the traditional techniques of Chinese paper-cutting, fusing traditional folk forms and iconography with narratives from his personal life. Articulating a longing to express his queer desire, Xiyadie embraces the ancient art form while subverting it with defiant yet joyful expressions of individualism. In the artist's words: "This is my stage. Here I can dance with abandon, I can give free rein to my thoughts, I can live out my fantasies. Here, I can fly to the moon, I can become a butterfly, I can love, and I can hate. This is the place where I can be." -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Director's forward / Laura Hoptman

Acknowledgements / Rosario Güiraldes

Dance with abandon: Xiyadie's transformative paper-cuts / Rosario Güiraldes

The farmer is an artist, the artist is a gardener / Hera Chan

The butterfly and the queer public / Alvin Li

Plates

Works in the exhibition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9798987600917

OCLC:

1374175098