展览海报

展览名称：文德个展——享受当下  Carpe Diem——Fred Dervin’s Solo Exhibition

策展人：邢俊勤

学术及艺术顾问：陈宁 & 田萧雯

展览时间：2024.06.01-06.15

展览地点：艺栈画廊 ICI LABAS 北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路798东街

根据 2024 年的《世界幸福报告》所示，芬兰再次被评为全球最幸福的国家。然而，许多芬兰人对此感到惊讶，因为和其他国家一样，他们也正经历着抑郁、痛苦和悲伤。因此，幸福并非普遍存在的概念，它通常取决于个人与他人共同的创造。

拉丁语中的 Carpe Diem 意味着我们应该在能够的时刻尽情享受生活。这句话在英语中被广泛称为“Seize the Day!”， 在本次展览中，我专注于探索生活的复杂性和简单之美。我的祖母是我一生中对我影响最深的人，她是一个极具感染力的人，她用个人魅力浇灌故事，把快乐和思考带给身边的人。她教会了我如何珍惜当下，并不断提醒我幸福从来都不完全等同于“快乐”。她说我的幸福可能并非他人眼中所理解的那种快乐。

在本次展览中，所有艺术作品旨在让参观者思考是什么让他们在生活中快乐并关注那些让他们快乐的简单事物，如颜色、音乐、鲜花和山脉，最喜欢的衣服、美丽的物品，以及与不同类型的人的相遇等。本次展览是为了庆祝生活和喜悦，敦促我们去关注我们可以享受的小事和人际关系(Carpe Diem)。展览的组成方式是在向观众传达幸福是一个非常不稳定和不可预测的过程，需要我们时刻珍惜和反馈。

整个展览由三部分组成：1.心如止水 2.单纯幸福 3.扺掌而谈。每件艺术作品均代表着一个个充满喜悦却又错综复杂的故事。这些作品创作于 2020 年至 2024 年间，基于不同的艺术技巧创作而成，展示了我对人性、身份和跨文化的科学思维以及持续用艺术表达思维的兴趣。在欣赏每一件艺术品时，我希望参观者能够结合生活中的经验、学识，与在观赏作品时所感知到的感受联系起来。让我们一起尽情享受快乐和复杂的生活吧!

——文德

部分作品欣赏：

 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 纸本-丙烯、彩铅

 Resting with art，与艺术一起休息（2024），50 x 50cm，Wood - acrylic and oil 木板-丙烯、油彩

 Be gentle!，温柔一点！（2020-2024），21 x 15 cm，paper - acrylic and crayons 纸本-丙烯、彩铅

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

 Carpe Diem 2，及时行乐（2020-2024），21 x 15 cm，paper - acrylic and crayons 纸本-丙烯、彩铅

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 纸本-丙烯、彩铅

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