谭天 TANTIAN

蓝色的画面上，两个人在火焰边，标题是忧郁者的青春。

《忧郁者的青春》描绘的是一段关于年轻、爱情、伤害与流浪的记忆。
青春并不总是明亮的。对于那些敏感、孤独而又渴望自由的人来说，它更像是一段漫长而混乱的旅程——爱得太用力，恨得太直接，相信一些后来被证明并不可靠的东西，也因为年轻，而一次次把自己推向未知。
作品中的人物相遇、相爱、争吵、离开；他们在城市、房间、街道与旅途中漂泊，在欲望与孤独之间寻找某种可以暂时安放自己的地方。
爱情在这里并不浪漫。
它伴随着占有、嫉妒、背叛、依赖和失去。友情也并不永远可靠。那些曾经以为不会结束的关系，最终可能只留下一个名字、一段记忆，或者身体里无法真正消失的伤痕。
而流浪成为另一种青春的状态。
离开一个地方，去往另一个地方；离开一个人，又遇见另一个人。我们以为自己在寻找自由，也许只是在不断逃离那个尚未学会面对的自己。
年轻的时候，我们以为一切都会永远持续。
爱情、友情、痛苦、自由，以及我们自己。
后来才发现，它们都会过去。
但那些爱过、恨过、受伤过、流浪过的日子，并没有真正消失。
它们最终成为了我们的一部分。
《忧郁者的青春》不是关于青春最美好的时刻。
它关于那些混乱、残酷、炽热而又无法重来的岁月
关于我们曾经怎样年轻，
又怎样失去了年轻。

忧郁者的青春
THE BLUES OF YOUTH

150×150cm
Acrylic on canvas
2017

The Blues of Youth is a series about memories of youth, love, heartbreak and wandering.
Youth is not always bright. For those who are sensitive, lonely and hungry for freedom, it can feel more like a long and chaotic journey — loving too intensely, hating too directly, believing in things that later prove fragile, and repeatedly throwing ourselves into the unknown simply because we are young.
The figures in these works meet, fall in love, fight and leave. They drift through cities, rooms, streets and journeys, searching somewhere between desire and loneliness for a place where they might briefly belong.
Love here is not simply romantic.
It comes with possession, jealousy, betrayal, dependence and loss. Friendship is not always reliable either. Relationships once believed to last forever may eventually leave behind only a name, a memory, or a scar that never completely disappears.
Wandering becomes another state of youth.
We leave one place for another, leave one person and encounter someone new. We think we are searching for freedom, when perhaps we are simply running from the self we have not yet learned to face.
When we are young, we believe everything will last forever —
love, friendship, pain, freedom, and even who we are.
Eventually, we discover that all of it passes.
Yet the days of loving, hating, hurting and wandering never truly disappear.
They become part of who we are.
The Blues of Youth is not about the most beautiful moments of being young.
It is about those chaotic, brutal, passionate years that can never be lived again —
about how we were once young,
and how we lost our youth.