Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
Dustin Yellin: Petualangan ke dalam pikiran seorang seniman
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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di gunung
to New York City a while back.
datang ke kota New York tak lama ini.
but I'll get into that later.
tapi kita bahas itu nanti.
I was eight years old.
ketika saya berusia 8 tahun.
and a fork inside this box in Colorado.
dan garpu dalam kotak ini di Colorado.
or aliens in 500 years would find this box
atau alien akan menemukan kotak ini,
our species exchanged ideas,
bertukar pikiran,
and I'm still making boxes.
dan masih membuat kotak!
and do all that weird stuff,
dan melakukan hal aneh,
and I ripped it up,
of Agnes Martin grid,
kisi-kisi Agnes Martin,
and a bee got stuck.
dan ada lebah yang terjebak.
and she's allergic to them,
thinking I could hide it or something.
saya pikir bisa menyembunyikan lebahnya.
on the dictionary text.
di kamus.
Saya buat lebih banyak kotak.
electronics, frogs,
benda elektronik, katak,
anything I could find --
apa saja yang saya temukan--
finding things my whole life,
sepanjang hidup saya
and tell stories between these objects.
objek-objek yang saya temukan.
di sekitar objek...
I can draw in space!
Astaga, saya bisa menggambar di mana saja!
around a dead body at a crime scene.
di sekitar mayat di TKP.
of invented specimens.
taksonomi spesimen milik saya.
which you can kind of get a sense of.
yang mana Anda bisa paham.
weird insects and creatures.
serangga dan makhluk-makhluk aneh.
drawing on the layers of resin.
saya hanya menggambar di lapisan resin.
starting to have shows and stuff,
mulai pertunjukkan dan lain-lain,
I could take my girlfriend for dinner,
saya bisa mengajak pacar saya makan malam,
saya menghasilkan bentuk manusia,
with drawings of humans inside the layers.
gambar manusia pada lapisan-lapisannya.
because the resin was going to kill me.
karena resin akan membunuh saya.
thinking about it.
memikirkannya.
then you put another window,
lalu menambah lagi jendelanya,
all these windows together
menyatukan jendela-jendelanya
because I could stop using the resin.
saya bisa berhenti memakai resin.
which I call "The Triptych."
saya namakan "The Triptych"
"[The] Garden of Earthly Delights,"
oleh Hieronymus Bosch,
in the [Museo del] Prado in Spain.
I'll walk you through this piece.
Akan saya jelaskan.
so it's 36 feet of composition.
jadi panjangnya 11 meter.
Jesus and the locusts.
Yesus dan belalang.
travel between two worlds.
berpindah antara dua dunia.
where they're hiding.
tempat mereka sembunyi.
are by the lighthouse,
di samping mercusuar dan
mass suicide into the ocean.
dengan terjun ke laut.
of thousands of elements.
tied up to a battleship.
ke kapal perang.
Waldo; Osama Bin Laden's shelter --
Waldo; benteng Osama bin Laden --
that you can find
Anda memperhatikan benar lautnya.
and she's spitting oil into one hand
dia menumpahkan minyak ke tangannya
coming out of her other hand.
of the Earth and cosmos in balance.
keseimbangan Bumi dan Cosmos.
dia meludahkan awan dari paruhnya itu.
out of her trunk.
tail that connects "The Triptych."
yang menyambungkan "The Triptych".
from the back of the volcano.
dari balik gunung api.
in a cycloptic eyeball,
terbuat dari kartu teroris tahun 1986.
they're like baseball cards of terrorists.
seperti kartu baseball teroris.
to make 100 of these humans.
manusia-manusia seperti ini.
arsip budaya kita...
ensiklopedia, kamus atau majalah.
or dictionaries or magazines.
in the shape of a human,
dalam bentuk manusia...
of 20, 4, or 12 at a time.
20, 4 atau 12 manusia dalam satu waktu.
they come together, they divide.
mereka datang bersama, mereka terbagi.
It's taking me years.
a 3,000-pound microscope slide
1.367,7 kg preparat mikroskop...
di dadanya.
you can kind of see the beginning.
kau bisa melihat awalnya.
coming out of his chest,
or whatever it is,
atau apa pun itu,
sepintas kerja saya.
menjelaskannya lama-lama.
you can kind of see it.
keduanya saling berkomunikasi.
between the two heads.
masuk ke satu kepala makhluk aneh ini.
from this weird statue.
inside the chest cavity.
kita bicara tentang kotak-kotak itu...
the solar system is a box.
yaitu tata surya.
ke kotak terbaru saya.
It's called Pioneer Works.
Pioneer Works.
ilmuan syaraf, pelukis, musisi,
a museum, a school,
the content we make there into the world;
yang kami buat ke dunia; juga taman.
hitting each other like particles.
satu sama lain seperti partikel.
you change the world.
satu cara untuk mengubah dunia.
and the box that you're living in.
kotak yang kau tinggali.
bahwa kita semua berbagi hal yang sama,
that we're all in this together,
of religion -- doesn't work.
tidak berarti apa-apa.
of the same stuff, in the same box.
hal yang sama, pada kotak yang sama.
exchanging that stuff sweetly and nicely,
dengan baik dan manis,
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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