栗憲庭

羅發輝的大花，讓我想起美國女權藝術家奧葵弗的花，奧葵弗的花有性的意象，羅發輝的花也有性的意象。
只是奧葵弗作為女性主義藝術家，她的花有一種張揚的美麗；
   
羅發輝的花，給人一種虛假的感覺，無論花是他潛意識中的性，或者女性，或者美麗，對于羅發輝自己可能更多體驗的是虛假。
  
我第一次看到他的花的時候，花大到兩米左右，鉛灰的色彩，象鐵，有一種沉重和冷冰冰的感覺。這時花不再是現實的花，而成為他心中的意象，性是溫暖的激情，女性是美麗和嬌柔，但是對于羅發輝可能是堅硬的，冷冰冰的，難以接近的。

近期的羅發輝的花在發生一些變化，鉛灰的色彩越來越透明，花的體積感覺越來越富有彈性，象塑料或者硅膠，象腫脹或者充滿水分的恫體，也象初生嬌嫩的胚胎，有點粘乎乎和濕潤，性的感覺越來越突出。是羅發輝的內心在發生變化，還是對性的體驗越來越真切，或者越來越眷戀溫柔鄉，進入佳境，體會它的溫潤、潮濕和粘乎乎的感覺。同時，在透明的花體上偶然出現的類似潰爛的紅色斑點，是體會溫潤過之后的一點點糜爛的感覺？還是對于美麗的質疑。

我最近喜歡引用魯迅先生的“潰爛之處，艷若桃李”。只是在羅發輝的花中，我更多感覺到的是溫潤，嬌嫩，和粘乎乎和一點點糜爛的性的感覺。

（摘∶藝術家 2003.1期  畫壇焦點）等…….

Flowers of Image

By Li Xianting

The huge flowers of Luo Fahui remind me of the flowers of Georgia O’Keeffee, the American feminist artist. Her flowers have sexual connotations, and so do Luo Fahui’s. As a feminist artist, O’Keefee gives her flowers the beauty of pride and bravery, while Luo Fahui gives them a sense of falsity. To Luo Fahui, he may have experienced falsity no matter in his subconsciousness, flowers are sex, or women, or beauty. The first time I saw his flowers, they were as big as around two meters, as gray as lead and iron, seemingly heavy and cold. The flowers were no more flowers in reality, but the image inside Luo Fahui. Sex is warm and passionate, and women are beautiful and tender. However, to Luo Fahui, they were both hard, cold and unattainable.

There are some changes in Luo Fahui’s recent flowers. The color of gray turns more and more transparent, and the volume of the flowers turns more and more expandable. They look like plastic or silica gel bodies, swelling and water-filled. Like newly-born embryo, they are sticky and wet, obtaining more and more sexual connotations. I wonder if it is because Luo Fahui has experienced inner changes, or he has had keener sexual experiences, or he is just more and more indulged in the dream, pondering over the wet and sticky tenderness. Meanwhile, some red spots, as if ulcerated, appear on the transparent petals. Is that the rotten feeling after wetness? Or is it his question to beauty? Recently, I often quote Mr. Lu Xu’s “where ulcerated, it is as gorgeous as peach flowers”. However, in Luo Fahui’s flowers, I find more wet tenderness and sticky, festering sex.