The Power of Pollinators (And Other Living Things) at Nevada Museum of Art!
David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit,
The Power of Pollinators (And Other Living Things)
a new permanent artwork commissioned by Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada.
Sheer curtains and wall covering, 2024
Curator: Apsara DiQuinzio
Companion artwork: Monument to Sharing, by David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit, is outside in front of the museum.
Lead Sponsor: Roswitha Smale
Marriage of the Sea – extended through Nov. 24 , 2024- a new artwork in Venice, Italy
Austin Young / Fallen Fruit
Marriage of the Sea (the rape of Venice) / Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)
April 18 – June 30 2024
Presented by THE POOL NYC at historic Palazzo Cesari Marchesi, Venice, Italy
Read interview with Austin Young in ART magazine HERE
THE POOL NYC presents Marriage of the Sea (the rape of Venice), a new artwork by Austin Young / Fallen Fruit at Palazzo Cesari Marchesi.
‘Marriage of the Sea (The Rape of Venice)’ weaves a visual and conceptual narrative about the ancestral bond between La Serenissima and the Adriatic Sea. The exhibition will consist of a new large-scale artwork created for Venice and printed onto fabric wall covering and sheer curtains. “As an artist, I attempt to change the way you feel upon entering a room, aiming to share my perceptions through a sublime, aesthetic experience.” says Young. The artwork is a celebration of the lagoon, comprising a kaleidoscopic portrait of Venice, a collage of the artist’s original photographs and images found in archives during visits to the city’s museums, churches and palazzos
For hundreds of years on Ascension Day, a sacrifice was made. A glorious golden ring was thrown into the water that affirmed Venice’s dominion over the Adriatic Sea. The magic of this divine sacrifice was so powerful that it lasted centuries. Amid a dwindling population, the fouling of her canals, increasingly encroaching tides, and the loss of community through short term rentals, it is time to re-invoke this ancient vow: ‘Desponsamus te, mare, in signum veri perpetuique dominii!’ We marry you, sea, as a symbol of true and perpetual dominion!”
Title: Marriage of the Sea (the rape of Venice) / Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)
Artist: Austin Young / Fallen Fruit
Where: THE POOL NYC at PALAZZO CESARI MARCHESI
Calle Rombiasio 2539, Campo Santa Maria del Giglio, 30124 Venice
Vaporetto: Giglio
Hours: 11am- 1pm/ 2- 7 pm – Closed on Tuesdays
Technical sponsor: PROMEMORIA
ABOUT AUSTIN YOUNG
Austin Young is a multidisciplinary artist whose trademark style interprets a nuanced visual language of beauty, pop culture, art history, folk art, and transgressive underground exuberance. Whether he’s working in photography and video-based modes of performative portraiture, engaging in assertive visibility for Queer culture, or advocating for a community-based resource sharing culture, Young’s interest is in illustrating the sublime qualities of humanity that moves us all forward.
Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Much of the work they create is linked to ideas of place and generational knowledge, and it echoes a sense of connectedness with something very primal – our capacity to share the world with others. Recent permanent artworks and museum exhibitions include Chiotro del Bramante in Rome, Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Orto Botanico in Palermo, V&A in London, LACMA in Los Angeles, Manifesta 12 in Palermo, NGV Triennial in Melbourne, and more.
www.austinyoung.com www.fallenfruit.org
Instagram: @austinyoungforever @fallen_fruit
Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia) tesse un affascinante racconto visivo e concettuale sul legame ancestrale tra la Serenissima e l’Adriatico. Austin Young / Fallen Fruit realizza un inedito ed immersivo wall covering di grandi dimensioni creato appositamente per Venezia. Tessuto e tende velate rivestono le pareti e le finestre del palazzo.
Come artista, cerco di creare un’esperienza sublime che cambia le sensazioni una volta entrati nella stanza. L’obiettivo è di condividere le mie percezioni attraverso un’avventura estetica”, afferma Young.
Il lavoro di Austin Young è insieme celebrazione e ritratto di Venezia, è un collage di fotografie originali dell’artista e di immagini tratte dagli archivi durante le sue visite nei musei, nelle chiese e nei palazzi della città.
L’artista americano spiega: “Per centinaia di anni, nel giorno dell’Ascensione, è stato compiuto un sacrificio. Si gettava in acqua un glorioso anello d’oro che affermava il dominio di Venezia sull’Adriatico. La magia di questo sacrificio divino è stato così potente da durare per secoli. Tra la diminuzione della popolazione, l’incrostazione dei canali, le maree sempre più alte e la perdita della comunità a causa degli affitti a breve termine, è tempo di rievocare questo antico voto: “Desponsamus te, mare, in signum veri perpetuique dominii! Ti sposiamo, mare, come simbolo del vero e perpetuo dominio!”.
Per l’evento di apertura del 18 Aprile è previsto un progetto partecipativo con l’artista Irene Machetti. I visitatori sono invitati a sposare il mare.
Viola Romoli e Luigi Franchin, direttori di THE POOL NYC, affermano: “Questa coinvolgente installazione d’arte, sublime e immersiva rappresenta un’immagine allegorica di Venezia sedotta dal turismo, una città che ha sacrificato il suo capitale culturale e l’ambiente per avidità. Un’accurata ricerca della bellezza, dell’identità e delle norme sociali permea il lavoro dell’artista, conferendogli una profondità e una rilevanza che fa presa con il pubblico di tutto il mondo.”
ABOUT THE POOL NYC
THE POOL NYC is a contemporary art gallery founded in New York in 2009, specializing in modern and contemporary artists and Murano glass. In November 2017 THE POOL NYC opened a permanent home in Palazzo Fagnani Ronzoni in Milan. On the occasion of the Venice Biennale, the gallery organizes a major art exhibition in the lagoon. The gallery stands out for its search for innovative artistic expressions and the rediscovery of artists fundamental to the History of the 20th century. THE POOL NYC is committed to offer an inclusive and diverse platform, welcoming a wide range of artistic mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and installations. With a focus on experimentation and critical reflection, the gallery promotes meaningful dialogues on contemporary issues through art.
Fallen Fruit Raicilla! at OPC in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
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Fallen Fruit at the Parrish Art Museum! June 23
Join us! Fallen Fruit Talk & Magazine | 11 AM–3:00 PM June 23 at Community Day!
Join the art collaboration Fallen Fruit in a talk and hands-on zine workshop plus tastings of local foods! The talk will start at 11am and then drop in and contribute to the Zine with the artists at noon.
David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit present an informal discussion about their twenty-year practice of commissioned art projects in the public realm. These immersive experience-based artworks are created for cities around the world. The selected works are often considered contemporary portraits of a city or place. Using strategies of collage and collaboration, Austin and David from Fallen Fruit will create a topical magazine with participants. Join us and contribute to the digital zine created specifically for the Parrish Art Museum and the East End of Long Island.
279 Montauk HighwayWater Mill, NY 11976 United States +
‘For our work, we are committed to making artworks that celebrate the public and local history. We love to make art with people. Storytelling and artmaking during the events become … a portrait of the place or everyone who is there that day. The magazine itself becomes an artwork that is made from the public and by the public. Much of the art work we make is serialized work and the collections represent cities around the world. In this way, the works are extending and reactivating in different ways, new exhibitions and practices.’ – Fallen Fruit.
COMMUNITY DAY: SAVOR THE SUMMER
FREE Arts & Food Festival
June 23, 10 am – 5 pm
Join us as we celebrate art, artists, and food! Adults, children, and families can experience everything the Parrish Art Museum offers. Guests enjoy free admission all day alongside free activities including film screenings, art workshops, and guided looking in the galleries. Museum educators, Parrish docents, teaching artists from the community, and other staff will be onsite to support these activities and to answer any questions you may have.
Free Admission | 10 AM–5 PM | Galleries, Shop, Café, Outdoors
All visitors enjoy free admission to the Museum’s galleries, Creativity Lounge, Museum Shop, and Parrish Café!
Fallen Fruit Talk & Workshop | 11 AM–12:30 PM
Join the art collaboration Fallen Fruit in a talk and hands-on zine workshop plus tastings of local foods!
Food Trucks | 11:30 AM–3:30 PM
Balo’s, Mattitaco, North Fork Flour Truck
Guided Gallery Visits with Docents | 12:30–3:30 PM
Docents available for guided looking in the galleries on Simón Vega: Tropical Space Castaways and The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
Film Screenings | 1:30–3 PM | The Lichtenstein Theater
Film co-presented by Hamptons Doc Fest.
Art Workshops | 1–4:30 PM | The Mildred C. Brinn Terrace
Food sculpture model magic and tape, vegetable printing, recycled packaging project, and more!
New Fallen Fruit for everyone to Share!
WAY OUT WEST dinner at 21C
Marriage of the Sea! – a new artwork in Venice!
Austin Young / Fallen Fruit
Marriage of the Sea (the rape of Venice) / Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)
April 18 – November 24, 2024
Presented by THE POOL NYC at historic Palazzo Cesari Marchesi, Venice, Italy
Opening: April 18, from 5 pm to 10 pm
Opening performance: 6 pm to 8 pm with Irene Machetti
Sketch for Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)’, by Austin Young / Fallen Fruit. (in progress) digital collage printed on watercolor paper, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
THE POOL NYC presents Marriage of the Sea (the rape of Venice), a new artwork by Austin Young / Fallen Fruit at Palazzo Cesari Marchesi.
‘Marriage of the Sea (The Rape of Venice)’ weaves a visual and conceptual narrative about the ancestral bond between La Serenissima and the Adriatic Sea. The exhibition will consist of a new large-scale artwork created for Venice and printed onto fabric wall covering and sheer curtains. “As an artist, I attempt to change the way you feel upon entering a room, aiming to share my perceptions through a sublime, aesthetic experience.” says Young.
The artwork is a celebration of the lagoon, comprising a kaleidoscopic portrait of Venice, a collage of the artist’s original photographs and images found in archives during visits to the city’s museums, churches and palazzos A participatory project is programmed at the opening of the exhibition with artist Irene Machetti where everyone is invited to marry the sea, challenging visitors to rethink the idea of dominion over the sea.
Title: Marriage of the Sea (the rape of Venice) / Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)
Artist: Austin Young / Fallen Fruit
Opening: April 18 from 5 to 10 p.m.
Opening performance: 6pm to 8pm visitors will mary the sea in a ceremony with artist Irene Machetti.
Where: THE POOL NYC at PALAZZO CESARI MARCHESI
Calle Rombiasio 2539, Campo Santa Maria del Giglio, 30124 Venice
Vaporetto: Giglio
Hours: 11am- 1pm/ 2- 7 pm – Closed on Tuesdays
Technical sponsor: PROMEMORIA
Technical sponsor for the opening: Franco Profumiere Venezia.
Detail of Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)’, by Austin Young of Fallen Fruit. dimensions variable, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
In the artist’s own words, “For hundreds of years on Ascension Day, a sacrifice was made. A glorious golden ring was thrown into the water that affirmed Venice’s dominion over the Adriatic Sea. The magic of this divine sacrifice was so powerful that it lasted centuries. Amid a dwindling population, the fouling of her canals, increasingly encroaching tides, and the loss of community through short term rentals, it is time to re-invoke this ancient vow: ‘Desponsamus te, mare, in signum veri perpetuique dominii!’ We marry you, sea, as a symbol of true and perpetual dominion!”
Detail of Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)’, by Austin Young of Fallen Fruit. dimensions variable, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist
Viola Romoli and Luigi Franchin directors of THE POOL NYC add“This sublime and immersive artwork depicts an allegorical image of Venice that has been seduced by tourism, sacrificing its cultural capital and the environment for greed. A profound exploration of beauty, identity and social norms permeates the artist’s work, giving it a depth and relevance that resonates with audiences around the world.”
Join artist Austin Young and THE POOL NYC for the opening night event on April 18, where visitors will marry the sea in a ceremony with artist Irene Machetti.
ABOUT AUSTIN YOUNG / FALLEN FRUIT
Austin Young is a multidisciplinary artist whose trademark style interprets a nuanced visual language of beauty, pop culture, art history, folk art, and transgressive underground exuberance. Whether he’s working in photography and video-based modes of performative portraiture, engaging in assertive visibility for Queer culture, or advocating for a community-based resource sharing culture, Young’s interest is in illustrating the sublime qualities of humanity that moves us all forward.
Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Much of the work they create is linked to ideas of place and generational knowledge, and it echoes a sense of connectedness with something very primal – our capacity to share the world with others. Recent permanent artworks and museum exhibitions include Chiotro del Bramante in Rome, Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Orto Botanico in Palermo, V&A in London, LACMA in Los Angeles, Manifesta 12 in Palermo, NGV Triennial in Melbourne, and more.
www.austinyoung.com www.fallenfruit.org
Instagram: @austinyoungforever @fallen_fruit
ABOUT IRENE MACHETTI
Irene Machetti (Venice, 1996) uses food as her artistic medium and a tool for anthropological and socio-cultural investigation, studying the traditions and norms that regulate it. Challenging ancient rites and customs, she creates edible installations and performative projects that establish a dialogue between art and food, involving the visitor’s body and senses. Her research expands into the journalistic and curatorial field: Machetti writes about art and food on FAD Magazine (where she founded the column “FOOD ART” ) and Artribune.
Irene Machetti holds a BA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), followed by an MA at the LUISS Business School (Rome). The artist participates in projects between London and Italy, including: Collective Recipes (Open Space Contemporary, London, 2020); Contaminami (Cable Bakery, London, 2020 and Festival “I Tramonti di Tinia”, Azienda Agricola Spada, Sutri, 2023); Mi sono scordata di dirti che (Tropismi della memoria, Rome, 2023); Art Diners with Catriona Gallagher (Rome, 2024).
Sketch for Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia)’, by Austin Young of Fallen Fruit. (in progress) digital collage printed on watercolor paper, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist
“Sposalizio del Mare (il ratto di Venezia) / Marriage of the Sea (The Rape of Venice)” tesse un affascinante racconto visivo e concettuale sul legame ancestrale tra la Serenissima e l’Adriatico. Austin Young / Fallen Fruit realizza un inedito ed immersivo wall covering di grandi dimensioni creato appositamente per Venezia. Tessuto e tende velate rivestono le pareti e le finestre del palazzo.
Come artista, cerco di creare un’esperienza sublime che cambia le sensazioni una volta entrati nella stanza. L’obiettivo è di condividere le mie percezioni attraverso un’avventura estetica”, afferma Young.
Il lavoro di Austin Young è insieme celebrazione e ritratto di Venezia, è un collage di fotografie originali dell’artista e di immagini tratte dagli archivi durante le sue visite nei musei, nelle chiese e nei palazzi della città.
L’artista americano spiega: “Per centinaia di anni, nel giorno dell’Ascensione, è stato compiuto un sacrificio. Si gettava in acqua un glorioso anello d’oro che affermava il dominio di Venezia sull’Adriatico. La magia di questo sacrificio divino è stato così potente da durare per secoli. Tra la diminuzione della popolazione, l’incrostazione dei canali, le maree sempre più alte e la perdita della comunità a causa degli affitti a breve termine, è tempo di rievocare questo antico voto: “Desponsamus te, mare, in signum veri perpetuique dominii! Ti sposiamo, mare, come simbolo del vero e perpetuo dominio!”.
Per l’evento di apertura del 18 Aprile è previsto un progetto partecipativo con l’artista Irene Machetti. I visitatori sono invitati a sposare il mare.
Viola Romoli e Luigi Franchin, direttori di THE POOL NYC, affermano: “Questa coinvolgente installazione d’arte, sublime e immersiva rappresenta un’immagine allegorica di Venezia sedotta dal turismo, una città che ha sacrificato il suo capitale culturale e l’ambiente per avidità. Un’accurata ricerca della bellezza, dell’identità e delle norme sociali permea il lavoro dell’artista, conferendogli una profondità e una rilevanza che fa presa con il pubblico di tutto il mondo.”
ABOUT THE POOL NYC
THE POOL NYC is a contemporary art gallery founded in New York in 2009, specializing in modern and contemporary artists and Murano glass. In November 2017 THE POOL NYC opened a permanent home in Palazzo Fagnani Ronzoni in Milan. On the occasion of the Venice Biennale, the gallery organizes a major art exhibition in the lagoon. The gallery stands out for its search for innovative artistic expressions and the rediscovery of artists fundamental to the History of the 20th century. THE POOL NYC is committed to offer an inclusive and diverse platform, welcoming a wide range of artistic mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and installations. With a focus on experimentation and critical reflection, the gallery promotes meaningful dialogues on contemporary issues through art.
Libreria Museale Italiana 2023
Fallen Fruit are Nevada Museum of Art Research Fellows!
Peter E. Pool Research Fellows: Fallen Fruit (2023-2024) a 20-year retrospective archive.
Fallen Fruit, composed of artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young. The fellowship was awarded specifically for the Center to collect a 20-year retrospective archive of the collaborative’s work. more info HERE
The purpose of the Peter E. Pool Research Fellowship is to encourage serious engagements with materials held in the Center for Art + Environment Archive Collections, as well as the art collections of the Nevada Museum of Art.
Fallen Fruit (2023-2024)The Fallen Fruit Collective, composed of artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young, was commissioned by the Museum in 2022 to create a large-scale public work of art entitled Monument to Sharing. This living installation is the first element of a multi-phased Museum expansion scheduled for completion in early 2025. Monument to Sharing involves planting approximately twenty-one fruit-bearing trees, a berry patch and a series of edible pollinators that the public is welcome to “harvest,” inviting guests to explore ideas of generosity, agricultural production and the meaning behind “community.” The project will be completed in 2030. The fellowship was awarded specifically for the Center to collect a 20-year retrospective archive of the collaborative’s work.
Fallen Fruit at the WORLD FOOD FORUM
Altar to Dionysus , 2023
Animated photographs projected on the FAO building in Rome
World Food Forum 2023 at FAO, Rome
by David Allen Burns and Austin Young | Fallen Fruit
This photographic animated artwork projected on the iconic FAO building was inspired by a visit to an ancient temple and vineyard at an archeological site on Mt. Vesuvius near Somma Vesuviana. The hills of this region have been covered by vineyards since Roman times. Dionysus, pictured, is the god of winemaking, orchards, fruit, vegetation and fertility, and was patron saint of this land.
In this reconfigured artwork, the artists create a tribute to abundance, sustainability, the beauty of planet earth’s biodiversity (flowers and fruit) and the idea that from ancient to modern times, our humanity is a celebration.
Curated by Tramandars
About David Allen Burns and Austin Young | Fallen Fruit
Fallen Fruit investigates interstitial urban spaces, bodies of knowledge, and new forms of citizenship. From protests to proposals for utopian shared spaces, Fallen Fruit’s work aims to reconfigure the relationship of sharing and explore understandings of what is considered both public and private. From their work, the artists have learned that “fruit” is symbolic and that it can be many things; it’s a subject and an object at the same time it is aesthetic. Much of the work they create is linked to ideas of place and geographical knowledge, and it echoes a sense of connectedness with something very primal – our capacity to share the world with others. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.
The Endless Orchard | By Fallen Fruit
The Endless Orchard is a project created by artist duo David Allen Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit. “We are a contemporary artists duo. We make large scale art installations, public fruit parks, and plant fruit trees in public space for everyone to share. We invite you to experience your city as a fruitful place, to radically shift public participation and the function of urban spaces, and to explore the meaning of community through creating and sharing new and abundant resources like fruit trees.”
Fruit trees live longer than most residents of a city. In fact, they can be productive and sustainable for more than 40 years. The Endless Orchard wants to position this project globally and engage community with the idea that generosity begets generosity. Everyone can participate regardless of age, class or gender. It is easy to expand the Endless Orchard by planting fruit trees adjacent to or on public spaces. We invite artists, activists, historians and engaged citizens to plant fruit trees in publicly accessible spaces and create more Urban Fruit Trails in more cities and expand the Endless Orchard. Ideally, all of this will be enhanced in a future version with Augmented Reality as a way to guide people through neighborhoods, adding stories, images, videos, text and more. In a multi-user environment with prompts on how to engage the city using prompts and markers such as fruit trees, public spaces and community landmarks. The Endless Orchard will become a socially interfaced environment gathering information on the best ways to navigate and experience city streets and public spaces. Share fruit trees in your neighborhood!
“Fruit is a universal gift to humanity.”
About David Allen Burns
Born in Los Angeles, California, David Allen Burns completed a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from UC Irvine. David grew up in a diverse middle-class community in West Los Angeles and helped out at family-owned businesses across Southern California. David’s work has always looked at contextualized relational knowledge and disrupting systems of meaning, especially exploring the limitations and boundaries about what could be considered “familiar.” Often work is created with non-precious materials, found objects and incorporates materials from the everyday to transform aesthetics and contextual framework that sublimates understanding about what we think we may already know — likened to a conceptual reconstruction of a tromp l’loiel instead of the copy of the visual representation.
About Austin Young
Austin Young is from Reno, Nevada and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The foundation of his career is from studying at Parsons in Paris. Early in his career, Austin transferred his interests from traditional portrait painting towards a long-celebrated career in portrait photography. In many ways, Austin is more accurately described as an image-maker: his projects illustrate the sublime qualities of character that make celebrated people unique. Based on a nuanced visual language of pop-culture iconography, his trademark style and techniques have captured a broad palette of musicians, artists and celebrities including Debbie Harry, Leigh Bowery and Margaret Cho, among others. In multiple bodies of work, Austin confuses personality and identity issues in confrontational and unapologetic image making about people who often split gender roles, stereotypical constraints and socially-constructed identities.