Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
Dustin Yellin: Eine Reise durch die Gedankenwelt eines Künstlers
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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in den Bergen aufgewachsen,
to New York City a while back.
nach New York City.
but I'll get into that later.
-- aber dazu später mehr.
I was eight years old.
and a fork inside this box in Colorado.
und eine Gabel hinein.
or aliens in 500 years would find this box
damit sie Aliens in 500 Jahren finden,
our species exchanged ideas,
wie unsere Spezies Ideen austauscht,
and I'm still making boxes.
arbeite ich immer noch mit Boxen.
and do all that weird stuff,
and I ripped it up,
of Agnes Martin grid,
and a bee got stuck.
eine Biene blieb stecken.
and she's allergic to them,
und ist sogar allergisch,
thinking I could hide it or something.
um die Biene zu verstecken.
on the dictionary text.
electronics, frogs,
anything I could find --
alles, was ich fand --
finding things my whole life,
and tell stories between these objects.
I can draw in space!
around a dead body at a crime scene.
of invented specimens.
von erfundenen Exemplaren gemacht.
which you can kind of get a sense of.
das erklärt sich noch recht leicht.
weird insects and creatures.
auf Harzschichten gezeichnet.
drawing on the layers of resin.
starting to have shows and stuff,
Shows und so was zu machen.
I could take my girlfriend for dinner,
konnte mit meiner Freundin ausgehen,
with drawings of humans inside the layers.
mit Menschenzeichnungen.
because the resin was going to kill me.
thinking about it.
then you put another window,
dann nimmt man ein weiteres,
all these windows together
und das immer wieder,
because I could stop using the resin.
ich brauchte keinen Harz mehr.
which I call "The Triptych."
die ich "Den Triptych" nenne.
"[The] Garden of Earthly Delights,"
"[Der] Garten der irdischen Lüste",
in the [Museo del] Prado in Spain.
I'll walk you through this piece.
so it's 36 feet of composition.
Jesus and the locusts.
travel between two worlds.
zwischen zwei Welten verkehren.
where they're hiding.
wo sie sich verstecken.
are by the lighthouse,
mass suicide into the ocean.
of thousands of elements.
tied up to a battleship.
gefesselt auf einem Kriegsschiff.
Waldo; Osama Bin Laden's shelter --
Waldo; Osama Bin Ladens Versteck --
that you can find
and she's spitting oil into one hand
und spuckt Öl in eine Hand,
coming out of her other hand.
of the Earth and cosmos in balance.
zu der Balance zwischen Erde und Kosmos.
out of her trunk.
tail that connects "The Triptych."
der den "Triptych" verbindet.
from the back of the volcano.
in a cycloptic eyeball,
they're like baseball cards of terrorists.
Sammelkarten mit Terroristen.
to make 100 of these humans.
bis man 100 dieser Menschen hat.
or dictionaries or magazines.
oder Zeitschriften.
in the shape of a human,
of 20, 4, or 12 at a time.
20, 4, oder 12 auf einmal.
they come together, they divide.
Sie kommen zusammen und teilen sich.
dafür brauchte ich Jahre.
It's taking me years.
a 3,000-pound microscope slide
you can kind of see the beginning.
man kann den Anfang sehen.
coming out of his chest,
oder was auch immer es ist,
or whatever it is,
nicht lange erklären kann.
you can kind of see it.
between the two heads.
from this weird statue.
inside the chest cavity.
handelt ja von Boxen,
the solar system is a box.
das Solarsystem ist auch eine.
It's called Pioneer Works.
names "Pioneer Works".
ein Musiker, ein Autor,
a museum, a school,
eine Schule, ein Verlagsbereich,
the content we make there into the world;
nach draußen in die Welt verbreitet;
hitting each other like particles.
ein bisschen wie kleine Teilchen.
you change the world.
die Welt verändern.
and the box that you're living in.
in der man lebt, neu.
that we're all in this together,
"Hey, wir sitzen hier alle zusammen drin."
diese "Unterschiede" --
of religion -- doesn't work.
Religionen -- nicht funktioniert.
of the same stuff, in the same box.
sitzen in der gleichen Box.
exchanging that stuff sweetly and nicely,
und freundlich austauschen,
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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