罗旭，弥勒人，56年生于小商家庭，童年自带草墩加一本正式课本走完小学；初中学工学农，弄懂庄稼是从土里长出来的；16岁被“照顾”进县瓷器厂工作，期间唯一的乐趣是捏几个小公鸡；21岁被分配到建筑队工作，曾幻想做个建筑设计师，后发现不精于计算，中途放弃；23岁那年突发奇想，要做个艺术家，正式从事履 历 自 述

 

   罗旭，弥勒人，56年生于小商家庭，童年自带草墩加一本正式课本走完小学；初中学工学农，弄懂庄稼是从土里长出来的；16岁被“照顾”进县瓷器厂工作，期间唯一的乐趣是捏几个小公鸡；21岁被分配到建筑队工作，曾幻想做个建筑设计师，后发现不精于计算，中途放弃；23岁那年突发奇想，要做个艺术家，正式从事“反、坏、右”学画，考了三次艺术学院，遗憾无人录取，气急之下索性从建筑队告假，养殖长毛兔为生，结果兔死毛飞；85年混进县文化馆充当美工；88年被中央美院雕塑系主任钱绍武先生收编为“私生”子，舞弄了一年的人体造形；92年忍不住饥寒、欲望，从文化馆辞职出走，在清水环境中作菜雕捞了一点碎花银；“球粘不得热气膨胀起来”，一闪身从弥勒挤进昆明，雄心壮志；94年伙同一帮热血男子创办“《达达艺术有限责任公司》”，94年底被推上董事长的宝座，一时羽扇纶巾，英姿焕发；95年初被撵下台，在任3个月；96年再度雄心勃起，肩扛一根三米长的竹竿大胆加银行信任，建土著巢；97年8月自任土著巢“老总”兼厨师长，指点灶上江山，把玩原始民族歌舞，打造：“吃什么、吃文化；看什么、看艺术。”的亏本平台。三年辛劳，落得骨瘦如柴；2000年5月1日关门停火，养狗遛驴，员工各逃性命。2000年5月至今栽花种草，座台、发呆；养鸡、养鸭、种瓜、种豆。期间有过些群展、个展，得了几把美女送来的鲜花。几经捣腾，其心仍未看破红尘，但方式愚笨；闭门造车，守株待兔。前后数个十年旅程回瞰，玩泥巴的时间最长，曾多次想改道，木已成舟，难为它用，只好顺水行舟啦。

 

2004年罗旭

 

A Biography

 

    I, Luo Xu, born of a small merchant family in 1956 in Mi Le County, carried my own grass stool and proper textbook through primary school, spent middle school learning agriculture to find that crops grow from the earth; at 16 was taken care of by being sent to work at the porcelain factory, the only joy of that time was in creating a few small roosters; assigned to work at the construction team - there were dreams of becoming an architect, but a lack of mathematical skills was discovered and it was given up along the way; at 23 had a dream to become an artist and began studying the counter-revolutionary, wrong and rightist painting, tested three times for the art institute, but unfortunately was not admitted, in the heat of the moment took leave from the construction team, raised long haired rabbits for a living, but the rabbits all died and the hair flew the coop; got mixed up with the county culture house serving as an art designer; in 85 taken in as the bastard son of China Central Academy of Fine Arts sculpture dean Mr Qian Zhaowu, doing body studies for a year; in 92 got tired of starvation and desire, quit the culture house, created some boring works for a little cash, got a big head and flitted from Mi Le to Kunming with lofty aspirations; in 94 joined some hot-blooded blokes to create the Dada Art Company Ltd, pushed up to the throne of chairman at the end of the year, strutted around like the top dog feeling talented and powerful; pushed down from the throne at the dawn of 95, serving 3 more months; hit with a new surge of aspiration in 96, with just a three meter bamboo pole and some credit at the bank, constructed the Earth Nest; in August 97 appointed myself the boss and master chef of the Earth Nest, leading the troops in the kitchen and molding ancient dance into the doomed business model: "What do we eat? Culture. What do we watch? Art." After three years of strenuous work, my body had wasted down to the bones; the doors were shut and the fires extinguished on May 1st, 2000, continued raising dogs and kept the donkey - all the workers ran for their lives. Since March 2000, I ve been gardening, lounging on the porch and sitting around, raising chickens and ducks, planting gourds and beans. There have been a few group exhibitions, solo exhibitions, and a few flowers from some lovely ladies. Through many ups and downs, I never caved in. Looking back across several decades of wanderings, most of the time was spent playing with clay, thought about changing paths many times, but the wood has already been carved into a boat, as it is hard to steer, there is nothing left but to go with the flow.

 

Luo Xu, 2004