Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
دستن يلين: رحلة عبر عقل فنان
Acclaimed for his monumental “sculptural paintings,” Dustin Yellin now nurtures voices in the art community with Pioneer Works, his mammoth Brooklyn art center. Full bio
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to New York City a while back.
من الغابة منذ فترة قصيرة مثل جني
but I'll get into that later.
سأنكلم عن ذلك لاحقًا.
I was eight years old.
and a fork inside this box in Colorado.
داخل هذا الصندوق في كولورادو
or aliens in 500 years would find this box
أو القادمين من الفضاء بعد 500 سنة
our species exchanged ideas,
and I'm still making boxes.
لا أزال أصنع الصناديق
and do all that weird stuff,
والقيام بأعمال غريبة،
الأعمال الفنية من الملصقات
and I ripped it up,
of Agnes Martin grid,
and a bee got stuck.
and she's allergic to them,
thinking I could hide it or something.
معتقدًا أني سأخفيها أو شيء من هذا القبيل
on the dictionary text.
electronics, frogs,
anything I could find --
وكل ما ما استطعت التقاطه
finding things my whole life,
and tell stories between these objects.
وحكاية قصص عنها
I can draw in space!
الرسم في الفضاء بروعة
around a dead body at a crime scene.
of invented specimens.
التي اخترعتها
which you can kind of get a sense of.
weird insects and creatures.
الحشرات و المخلوقات الغريبة
drawing on the layers of resin.
طبقات الراتنج
starting to have shows and stuff,
في عرضها و غير ذلك
I could take my girlfriend for dinner,
صديقتي للعشاء
with drawings of humans inside the layers.
ورسوم البشر داخل طبقاته
because the resin was going to kill me.
لأن الراتنج كان سيقتلني
thinking about it.
وأنا أفكر بذلك
then you put another window,
all these windows together
because I could stop using the resin.
استعمال الراتنج
which I call "The Triptych."
أسميه "اللوح الثلاثي"
"[The] Garden of Earthly Delights,"
لهيرونيموس بوش
in the [Museo del] Prado in Spain.
I'll walk you through this piece.
سأسير بكم خلال هذه القطعة
so it's 36 feet of composition.
36 قدما
Jesus and the locusts.
travel between two worlds.
الحيوانية بين عالمين
where they're hiding.
are by the lighthouse,
قريبا من الفنار الضوئي
mass suicide into the ocean.
of thousands of elements.
tied up to a battleship.
Waldo; Osama Bin Laden's shelter --
وهذا والدو ، وهنا مأوى أسامة بن لادن
that you can find
الغريبة التي قد تجدها
and she's spitting oil into one hand
وهي تبصق زيتا في أحد كفيها
coming out of her other hand.
of the Earth and cosmos in balance.
الأرض والكون
out of her trunk.
tail that connects "The Triptych."
يربط "اللوح الثلاثي"
from the back of the volcano.
in a cycloptic eyeball,
they're like baseball cards of terrorists.
بطاقات كرة البيسبول الخاصة بالإرهابيين
to make 100 of these humans.
لصناعة 100 من هؤلاء البشر
or dictionaries or magazines.
in the shape of a human,
على شكل إنسان
of 20, 4, or 12 at a time.
they come together, they divide.
It's taking me years.
a 3,000-pound microscope slide
يزن 3000 رطلا
you can kind of see the beginning.
coming out of his chest,
or whatever it is,
you can kind of see it.
between the two heads.
from this weird statue.
inside the chest cavity.
the solar system is a box.
النظام الشمسي صندوق.
It's called Pioneer Works.
a museum, a school,
the content we make there into the world;
التي نضيفها إلى العالم
hitting each other like particles.
مثل الجزيئات
you change the world.
التي تغير العالم
and the box that you're living in.
التي تعيشون فيها
that we're all in this together,
في هذا معا
of religion -- doesn't work.
of the same stuff, in the same box.
وفي نفس الصندوق
exchanging that stuff sweetly and nicely,
بنعومة وسلاسة
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dustin Yellin - SculptorAcclaimed for his monumental “sculptural paintings,” Dustin Yellin now nurtures voices in the art community with Pioneer Works, his mammoth Brooklyn art center.
Why you should listen
Dustin Yellin’s mesmerizing glass sculptures explode collage into three dimensional forms, and have won him accolades from all over the art world. From early works of layered resin, Yellin’s sculptures increased in size (and weight), culminating in the 12-ton, three-paneled The Triptych.
But Yellin’s most ambitious project may be Pioneer Works, a colossal, 27,000-square-foot artist’s complex and foundation in Red Hook, Brooklyn. With its residencies, workshops and on-site science lab, Pioneer Works cultivates cross-disciplinary experimentation regardless of profit potential.
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