Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
Dustin Yellin: Un viatge per la ment d'un artista
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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a la muntanya
to New York City a while back.
una mena de gnom del bosc
(Riures)
but I'll get into that later.
però els detalls vindran després.
I was eight years old.
and a fork inside this box in Colorado.
amb un bitllet, un boli i una forquilla dins.
or aliens in 500 years would find this box
o alien la trobaria al cap de 500 anys
our species exchanged ideas,
intercanviava idees,
and I'm still making boxes.
i segueixo fent caixes.
and do all that weird stuff,
i aquestes coses,
and I ripped it up,
i el vaig destrossar,
of Agnes Martin grid,
a l'estil d'Agnes Martin,
and a bee got stuck.
i una abella hi va quedar enganxada.
and she's allergic to them,
i n'és al·lèrgica,
thinking I could hide it or something.
amb la intenció de camuflar-la.
on the dictionary text.
sobre el diccionari.
Doncs construir més caixes.
electronics, frogs,
electrònica, granotes,
anything I could find --
tot el que pogués trobar,
finding things my whole life,
he estat trobant coses,
and tell stories between these objects.
i explicar històries sobre aquests objectes.
al voltant dels objectes
I can draw in space!
mare meva, puc dibuixar en l'espai!
around a dead body at a crime scene.
d'un cadàver a l'escena del crim.
of invented specimens.
d'espècimens inventats.
which you can kind of get a sense of.
aquí us en podeu fer una idea.
weird insects and creatures.
d'insectes i criatures estranyes.
drawing on the layers of resin.
dibuixava en les capes de resina.
starting to have shows and stuff,
a muntar exposicions i aquestes coses,
I could take my girlfriend for dinner,
amb els quals convidava la xicota a sopar,
a provar amb formes humanes,
with drawings of humans inside the layers.
amb dibuixos d'humans entre les capes.
because the resin was going to kill me.
la resina m'estava matant.
thinking about it.
al llit pensant-hi.
sobre el vidre,
then you put another window,
i en posa una altra a sobre,
all these windows together
totes aquestes finestres juntes
tridimensional.
because I could stop using the resin.
vaig poder deixar la resina.
which I call "The Triptych."
extensa obra que anomeno "El Tríptic".
de Hieronymus Bosch,
a Madrid,
"[The] Garden of Earthly Delights,"
in the [Museo del] Prado in Spain.
per a l'època, diuen.
I'll walk you through this piece.
"El Tríptic"
so it's 36 feet of composition.
són 10 metres de composició.
Jesus and the locusts.
a Jesús i les llagostes.
travel between two worlds.
cap d'animal viatgen entre els dos mons.
where they're hiding.
on s'amaguen.
are by the lighthouse,
són al costat del far,
mass suicide into the ocean.
i suicidar-se massivament.
of thousands of elements.
de milers d'elements.
tied up to a battleship.
lligat a un vaixell de guerra.
Waldo; Osama Bin Laden's shelter --
(la plataforma petrolífera)
that you can find
and she's spitting oil into one hand
petroli en una mà
coming out of her other hand.
of the Earth and cosmos in balance.
equilibri Terra-Cosmos.
cara de "El Tríptic".
com un bec d'ocell,
out of her trunk.
per la trompa.
tail that connects "The Triptych."
de 5,5 metres que uneix "El Tríptic".
from the back of the volcano.
pel darrere per culpa del volcà.
ja m'enteneu.
in a cycloptic eyeball,
globus ocular d'un ciclop,
Són dels 80
they're like baseball cards of terrorists.
però amb terroristes.
per l'època.
últim projecte.
to make 100 of these humans.
per a fer 100 humans d'aquests.
de la nostra cultura,
trossejats, o altres materials,
or dictionaries or magazines.
o revistes.
in the shape of a human,
d'arxiu en forma d'humà,
of 20, 4, or 12 at a time.
de 20, 4, o 12.
they come together, they divide.
s'ajunten, es divideixen.
It's taking me years.
M'està costant anys.
a 3,000-pound microscope slide
portaobjectes de microscopi de 1.300 kg.
caverna dins el pit.
you can kind of see the beginning.
es pot entreveure l'entrada.
coming out of his chest,
que li surt del pit,
or whatever it is,
o el que sigui,--
per aquestes obres,
entretenir gaire.
you can kind of see it.
més o menys les podeu veure.
per la meitat.
between the two heads.
entre els dos caps.
que surten,
from this weird statue.
d'aquesta estàtua estranya.
inside the chest cavity.
dins la cavitat toràcica.
parlem de caixes,
the solar system is a box.
el sistema solar és una caixa.
la meva última caixa.
It's called Pioneer Works.
Es diu Pioneer Works.
a museum, a school,
un museu, una escola,
the content we make there into the world;
tot el que fem cap al món,
hitting each other like particles.
xoca uns amb els altres, com les partícules.
you change the world.
com hem de canviar el món.
and the box that you're living in.
i la caixa on vivim.
that we're all in this together,
tots estem junts en això,
diferències,
of religion -- doesn't work.
de les religions...no funciona.
of the same stuff, in the same box.
del mateix, a la mateixa caixa.
exchanging that stuff sweetly and nicely,
això amb amabilitat i tendresa,
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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