谭天 | 欢迎光临
TAN TIAN | WELCOME
策展人：缪子衿
Curator: Miao Zijin
08.06 - 08.26, 2016
谭天在空白空间北京的第二回个展“欢迎光临”将于8月6日开幕。
在谭天的第一个个展结束后的一年半中，艺术家经历了一些发生在他周围，并让他有所感触的事情。他把这些事情或与之相关的对话转化为艺术作品，从而表达他经历这些事情时的感受。例如，装置《群展策展人》再现了谭天听到的一位策展人和一个艺术家之间的对话：前者要求后者根据画廊的特质提供一件尺寸更小、颜色更鲜艳的作品，尽管这种选择作品的方式和展览主题无关。谭天试图通过作品展现当代艺术的现状：在艺术市场的影响下，部分艺术家逐渐失去了创作的独立性。
第二个个展“欢迎光临”是谭天长期进行的质疑式观念艺术项目的阶段性展示。谭天根据他认为有问题的艺术方式创作艺术作品，并由这些作品表明自己不希望成为怎样的艺术家。具体来说，在第一个个展中，谭天质疑了当代艺术家是否可以通过学习其他成功艺术家的创作模式得到认可；而第二个个展质疑了艺术家牺牲其创作独立性所获取的商业成功。实质上，艺术家始终在通过作品把他的质疑进行物质化。谭天的质疑式艺术项目似乎将保持在一个未完成的状态，直到他找到自己认同的艺术方式。在当下，重要的是由质疑构成的展览历程，因为这个历程将在未来赋予谭天一个不同的艺术家身份和现实。
谭天，1988年出生于中国北京，2012年毕业于伦敦金斯顿大学自由艺术专业。近期的展览包括：转向：2000年以来的中国当代艺术，上海民生当代美术馆，上海，中国(2016)；为未来而创造：想象不可想象之事，柏林MOMENTUM艺术中心，柏林，德国(2015)；第二届CAFAM未来展，中央美术学院美术馆，北京，中国(2015)；第二个个展，空白空间，北京，中国(2015)。谭天现在生活和工作在北京。
Tan Tian’s second solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING, “Welcome” will open on Aug 06.
During the past one year and a half since Tan Tian’s first solo exhibition finished, the artist came across some events that touched him. Tan Tian transformed the events or words related to the events into artworks, in order to express his feelings when he was involved in those events. For example, the installation Group Show Curator represents a conversation between a curator and an artist, when the former is asking the latter to provide an artwork of smaller size and brighter color to fit a new gallery show, though this request has little to do with the conceptuality of the work in relation to the exhibition. Through his works, Tan Tian demonstrates the current situation of contemporary art, which is largely driven by the art market: certain artists are loosing their independence.
Actually, “Welcome” as Tan Tian’s second solo exhibition is one chapter of the artist’s long-term conceptual project of questioning. That is, Tan Tian identifies what kind of artist he does not want to become by making works according to some problematic artistic methods. To be more specific, Tan Tian questions if a contemporary artist could be formulated by studying the way other successful artists create art in his first solo exhibition; in the second solo exhibition, Tan Tian questions if it is worth sacrificing one’s artistic independence in exchange for commercial recognition. In essence, the artist is constantly materializing his questioning via artworks. It seems that the artist’s questioning project will not be finished, until he figures out what kind of artist he wants to be. Currently, it is the course of his exhibition history that counts, because this path founded on questioning might lead to an alternative identity and reality of the artist in the future.
Tan Tian was born in 1988 in Beijing, China. He graduated from Kingston University, UK in 2012. He currently lives and works in Beijing. His recent exhibitions include“Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000”, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China(2016); “Creating for the Future: Thinking About the Unthinkingable”, MOMENTUM Gallery, Berlin, Germany(2015); “CAFAM Future”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China(2015); “Jump to Second Solo Show”, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China(2015).