展覽海報

展覽名稱：文德個展——享受當下  Carpe Diem——Fred Dervin’s Solo Exhibition

策展人：邢俊勤

學術及藝術顧問：陳寧 & 田蕭雯

展覽時間：2024.06.01-06.15

展覽地點：藝棧畫廊 ICI LABAS 北京市朝陽區酒仙橋路798東街

根據 2024 年的《世界幸福報告》所示，芬蘭再次被評為全球最幸福的國家。然而，許多芬蘭人對此感到驚訝，因為和其他國家一樣，他們也正經歷著抑郁、痛苦和悲傷。因此，幸福并非普遍存在的概念，它通常取決于個人與他人共同的創造。

拉丁語中的 Carpe Diem 意味著我們應該在能夠的時刻盡情享受生活。這句話在英語中被廣泛稱為“Seize the Day!”， 在本次展覽中，我專注于探索生活的復雜性和簡單之美。我的祖母是我一生中對我影響最深的人，她是一個極具感染力的人，她用個人魅力澆灌故事，把快樂和思考帶給身邊的人。她教會了我如何珍惜當下，并不斷提醒我幸福從來都不完全等同于“快樂”。她說我的幸?？赡懿⒎撬搜壑兴斫獾哪欠N快樂。

在本次展覽中，所有藝術作品旨在讓參觀者思考是什么讓他們在生活中快樂并關注那些讓他們快樂的簡單事物，如顏色、音樂、鮮花和山脈，最喜歡的衣服、美麗的物品，以及與不同類型的人的相遇等。本次展覽是為了慶祝生活和喜悅，敦促我們去關注我們可以享受的小事和人際關系(Carpe Diem)。展覽的組成方式是在向觀眾傳達幸福是一個非常不穩定和不可預測的過程，需要我們時刻珍惜和反饋。

整個展覽由三部分組成：1.心如止水 2.單純幸福 3.扺掌而談。每件藝術作品均代表著一個個充滿喜悅卻又錯綜復雜的故事。這些作品創作于 2020 年至 2024 年間，基于不同的藝術技巧創作而成，展示了我對人性、身份和跨文化的科學思維以及持續用藝術表達思維的興趣。在欣賞每一件藝術品時，我希望參觀者能夠結合生活中的經驗、學識，與在觀賞作品時所感知到的感受聯系起來。讓我們一起盡情享受快樂和復雜的生活吧!

——文德

部分作品欣賞：

 By the pool，靠近游泳池（2024），45 x 32cm，Canvas - acrylic 布面-丙烯

 All will be well 3，好3（2024），9x15cm，paper - acrylic and crayons 紙本-丙烯、彩鉛

 Resting with art，與藝術一起休息（2024），50 x 50cm，Wood - acrylic and oil 木板-丙烯、油彩

 Be gentle!，溫柔一點?。?020-2024），21 x 15 cm，paper - acrylic and crayons 紙本-丙烯、彩鉛

 Stunned，沒有笑容（2022），40 x 30cm，wood - acrylic and oil 木板-丙烯、油彩

 Carpe Diem 2，及時行樂（2020-2024），21 x 15 cm，paper - acrylic and crayons 紙本-丙烯、彩鉛

According to the World Happiness Report (2024), Finland is the happiest country in the world. Finnish people tend to be surprised by this because, like other countries in the world, many of us also experience depression, pain, sadness. What happiness means and entails is not universal. Happiness is usually what we make of it, alone and together with others.

Carpe Diem in Latin means that we should enjoy life while we can. This phrase is widely known as Seize the Day! in English. In this exhibition, I focus on the happiness of life in all its complexities and simplicities. The most encouraging person in my life is my grandmother. She is an incredibly amazing and inspiring storyteller who can captivate anyone with her ‘happy stories’, urging people to think about themselves and the world around them. She taught me how to enjoy life while I can, reminding me constantly that happiness is never fully ‘happy’. She also often maintained that my happiness might not be other people’s sense of happiness.

In a similar vein, all the art pieces contained in this exhibition aim to make the visitor think about what it is that makes them happy in life, focusing on simple things like a colour, music, flowers and mountains, favourite clothes, beautiful objects but also encounters with different kinds of people. The exhibition is a realistic celebration of life and joy urging us to look at the small things and relationships that we enjoy while we can (Carpe Diem). The working principle of the exhibition is that happiness is a very unstable and unpredictable process, which needs cherishing and reflecting on all the time.

Three sections compose the exhibition: 1. Inner peace and tranquility, 2. Simple pleasures, 3. Gentle interactions. Every art piece represents a happy and yet intricate story. The pieces, based on different artistic techniques, date from 2020-2024 and showcase my constant interests in both scientific thought about humanity, identity and interculturality, and artistic expressions of them. While lookingat each art piece, I recommend connecting your own life as well as intellectual experiences to what you perceive in the pieces. Let’s enjoy a happy and complex life together!

——Fred Dervin

A clown in Paris，巴黎的小丑（2023），20 x 30cm，wood - acrylic and oil 木板-丙烯、油彩

 Emotion 1，情感 1（2022），9.5x 6cm，paper - acrylic and crayons 紙本-丙烯、彩鉛

 At the art museum 1，美術館 1（2023），40 x 30cm，Wood - acrylic and oil 木板-丙烯、油彩