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Thu, 31 Jan 2008
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Antonio Pessoa
Colors Update
Pessoa stains on watercolor paper,both generously
or feverishly adding water to the
tissue,following the spontaneous instructions of
his experienced intuition. His untouchable
imaginative endeavour,makes his fine art activity
an effortless almost unconscious
undertaking,apparently with no doubts about the
whole art action enterprise,whatsoever. His
quality work is thereby delivered and
accomplished by miracle,showing us once again
clear evidences of his privileged gift he
gracefully received and gratefully developed and
improved through this well-known systematic
exceptional working method and highly
professional attitude. Enchanting the world with
his inmitable visual flavours,colorful motions by
projecting his peculiar dynamic kaleidoscope of
pure contemporary poetry,Pessoa provides us with
this pleasant artistic metaphysics,visual
literature where elemental beauty of adventurous
power of invention leave art lovers deliciously
dazzled by the mastery through which he
artistically speaks his mind as his work becomes
more and more notorious like something truly
magical in today's contemporary art scene. From a
modern critical standpoint,Antonio Pessoa has
indeed this unique capacity to make us see things
that aren't actually there,that completely high
level when the viewer awakens suddenly and
contemplates the awesome abstract nature of
inspired combinated creative cutting edge. It's
work and play,flowing from one idea to another as
he walks us through the multiple artistic
possibilities,not only the quality evidence of a
life's work but a rather original
style,powerfully magnetic,intensive and new. Ups
and downs,ins and outs,don't seem to be able to
stop the artist,let alone take his burning fire
away.No stormy Monday,foggy Twesday or rainy day
seem to be capable to put his fire off,neither
thunderstorming,freezing or snowing events or
even setbacks,seem to succeed to list him among
the lost stars. If it's true that vulgarity
begins when imagination succumbs to the
explicit,then Antonio Pessoa's burning flame
fading out is definitely out of question. Back in
business after a good night sleep,no matter
what's at stake,no matter what it takes,the Show
must go on for today's visual arts most
adventurous and dynamic entertainer. Even feeling
quite often a bit burned out by pressure and life
in general,Pessoa's trained pro- life attitude
grants him what seems to be indeed a life time
heavenly Guardian Angel assistance,a whole great
amount of vital positive energy,showing him the
way and lead his project in full swing with the
hot fusion of mind power daily updates.
Therefore,COLORS UPDATE,watercolor and acrylic on
watercolor paper,Antonio Pessoa 2007,now it sure
seems like it was an accurate predicability of
the on-going art action and visual results of the
making of an impressive collection of cutting
edge mixed media artworks on watercolor tissue
and most importantly using a true revolutionary
method in the art of painting,which essential
characteristics is the magical experience of the
color stains taking spontaneous and absolute
control plus cellular autonomy of the art
action,just as in one of those amazing Walt
Disney best of productions animation fiction
wonders.Can you believe it? The art studio wizard
is back in business,a paradigmatic inspired fine
artist performing a striking number of art
magic ...or should I say ...contemporary
witchcraft? What do you know!Optical illusions
appear on the watercolor wet tissues,exhibiting a
breathtaking fairy magic fantasy festival . Art
reviews heralding "welcome back to the art
studio,Antonio Pessoa,sure thing,the place where
you definitely do belong." Breaking news never
seemed to be so easy,breaking news never seemed
to be so fulfilling,breaking news never seemed to
be so exciting,sensational,rewarding,delicious
and magical. The art studio wizard at work shows
us inevitably once again a truly special profecy
of contemporary art current-upcoming cutting
edge,as time goes by and the show must go on,and
it does,it's definitely a Must,Must,Must flash
point art performance,a Must elated blissed-out
phenomenon! Freeze,read my lips and mark my
words,one has actually got to see it to believe
it. Pessoa opens his studio doors for his
faithful,best and closest friends,the only ones
allowed to enter the cathedral of contemporary
fine art and thereby witness live and ablaze,a
landscape of chaotically displayed dozens and
dozens of watercolor tissues all over the
floor,miraculous visions on top of other textured
multicolored victorious artistic wonders.
Theoretically and apparently one could come up
with the possibility of an artist working
chaotically,which isn't definitely what is
happening. Colors in the air,that's more like
it,up they go and next thing you know they are
fast landing in artland,it's best to get down
quickly,for red,yellow,orange,brown,black and
blue color pigments are flying all over the place
like party decorations gone mad,precisely when
time awareness seems to have been suspended,sense
of reality expired and the artistic madness now
hitting us hard,nevertheless too late to warn us
how deliciously crazy we can go standing before
Antonio Pessoa's art action glowing exuberance
and original style extending well beyond the
inherited tradition of reasonable self-contained
art making.Too much of too much,believe me. Much
more than simply a Colors Update,the artist's
effortless studio live shows,leave us no doubts
of how far into artistic mastery he has already
gone,and a clear clue of how his strikingly
spectacular upcoming special effects aesthetic
achievements are unquestionably going to hit the
highest possible standards of quality
contemporary art,surely bound to inspire not only
the new generation of talented emerging artists
but also today's art collectors special
recognition of his creative skills and top of the
line awesome artistic accomplishments.
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Wed, 30 Jan 2008
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Vicente Fernandez Lago y Antonio Pessoa se
concentran an los detalles de base como para
tanto uno como el otro lograr rapidamente una
estabilidad anímica de forma a sacar adelante lo
que según todas las probabilidades va a ser uno
de los proyectos artisticos contemporáneos más
fascinantes y estimulantes tanto para ellos y sus
colaboradores,como para las galerias de arte de
primera división,coleccionistas de arte de
reputación mundial sin olvidar todos los eruditos
aficionados y amantes de las artes plásticas.
Este es el punto intermedio entre la
resignación y el éxito.Es sabido que la
resignación mata el corazón mientras no hay mayor
esperanza que el éxito en el objetivo más
apreciado.
Escuelas que piensan,Nación que
aprende,indiscutuble sabiduria tiene este
refrán,ya que muy lejos de tratarse de ciencia
ficción,abarca una metodologia de trabajo de
equipo urgente y absolutamente imprescindible a
la hora de cortar el hipo de la esperanza sin
llama ni fama.
Hablando de proyectos,parece ser más y más
evidente para todo el mundo que el enorme impacto
de las últimas obras de Pessoa,según la línea más
contemporánea y dinámica del artista hasta ahora,
refleja una sabia gestión del cambio visual que
puede gravitar en el futuro como una nueva
generación de modelos plásticos de enorme
capacidad inventiva y innovadora.
Indudablemente,la perspectiva ahora mismo
indica que en su conjunto llegara a ser más
creadora,imaginativa y notablemente más popular y
mediática que la única y magnánima producción
artistica de la Época Romántica,1997-2002.
Por consiguiente no es dificil adivinar de que
la bueanaventura del Proyecto compartido entre
Vicente Fernandez Lago y Antonio Pessoa,depende
sobremanera de todo un incentivo cuyo objectivo
es impulsar el espíritu inventivo y las
capacidades técnicas del artista y experto en
arte,de forma a que se conviertan en soluciones y
proyectos de acción concreta,una actividad en la
que la cuestión de ingenio,creatividad,desarrollo
y merecido reconocimiento universal,solo eso
puede hacer con que el mecenas del artista logre
finalmente cobrar los derechos de todos sus
esfuerzos hasta ahora,generando valor para este
equipo de dos amigos,cumplices y
profesionales,que alcanzará hasta lo imposible
una vez llegada la hora en que los dos personajes
de la historia establezcan una línea de
conducta,estratégia y comunicación,asegurando el
éxito de una operación que a lo largo de la
última década ha atendido a más de 4.000
coleccionistas de arte y ha logrado una
envidiable autonomia en el apasionante potencial
del mercado de arte de la Península.
Afortunadamente,al contrario de hace diez años
ya no se trata tanto de hacer de las tripas
corazón,sino de la consciencia global del mundo
del arte contemporáneo,el cumplimiento esencial
de toda una operación y su puesta en marcha.
Vicente Fernandez Lago,reafirmando
publicamente de que se divierte tanto como para
invertir diez años de su vida,tiempo y energia en
la promoción de la obra de Antonio Pessoa,de
ninguna manera su épico carisma de
líder,mecenas,marchante,relaciones públicas y
administrador de toda la plástica del artista,le
hace olvidar un camino abierto,un importante y ya
consagrado hecho en diversas áreas,sin embargo
también dandose cuenta de que mucho ha
cambiado,afortunadamente para mejor,pero un
panorama distinto en que el concepto de
circulación internacional ha ganado suficiente
credibilidad como para programar nuevas páginas
en la agenda.
Por consiguiente,pensar y debatir responsable
y libremente,asi es como Vicente Fernandez Lago y
su artista visualizan proyectos presentes y
futuros como algo prioritario,um amplio abanico
de posibilidades que vale la pena
actualizar,aplicar,concretar y por
supuesto,disfrutar.
El mecenas del artista de la Nueva Era,desde
hace cinco años ha adoptado el camino de las
nuevas tecnologias ofreciendo a su equipo de
colaboradores nuevas formas de personalizar la
promoción de la obra de Pessoa,dando la
bienvenida a nuevas y fantásticas opciones
relacionadas al tema de nuevas ideas,conceptos y
estratégias,como fundamentos imprescindibles de
este proyecto
artístico,peninsular,europeo,universal,a
sabiendas de que el plan de acción para el siglo
XXI,mucho más que atraer a determinados sistemas
de acceso dentro del panorama artistico
internacional,ya esboza recursos avanzados según
la vanguardia cultural y inevitablemente
comercial.
Si desde el año 2005 la obra de Pessoa ha
empezado a vibrar de una forma más que
inesperada,espectacularmente
impactante,sorprendente dentro de una línea de
narración plástica donde más que el
mensaje,existe indudablemente un mayor grado de
sabiduria visual comunicativa cuya preocupación
primordial de expresión artistica ha resultado en
un relato muy bien escrito a través de una
excelente apuesta en las emociones y en los
sentimientos,entablando una conversación Arte-
Público,logros de un sexto sentido experimentado
que ahora mismo se convirtio en una pelicula de
inspiración totalmente contemporánea y hasta
futurista,llena de magia y de fuerza,que
desconcierta por la falta de lógica,sin embargo
que logra sacar a la luz el más representativo
triunfo del fenómeno fascinante del misterio del
universo interior,alcanzando el alma del enigma
humano emocional,a través de un llamativo juego
de colores,formas y de un prominente teatro de
energia en movimiento y sobre lienzo.
Asi que, mientras Antonio Pessoa se adentra y
se calienta en un viaje a los confines del
universo de la super producción artistica una vez
más,Vicente Fernandez Lago,el gran meteorito de
la acelerada expansión internacional del
artista,manifiesta el impulso de la energia de
alguien que tiene ahora mismo un encuentro
predestinado con un gigantesco proyecto,un
desafio estimulante,una promesa de una
perspectiva cada vez más exitosa,sin embargo un
juego algo complicado,donde la precisión
estratégica,gestión del espacio vital y del
tiempo,ampliando horizontes y superando múltiples
incertidumbres y obstáculos significativos,sigue
haciendo parte de su crecimiento personal como
uno de los baluartes indiscutibles de la
lirica,empirica y politica promoción artistica
internacional,aprendizaje que le coloca
finalmente en uno u otro rol y en una u otra
esfera del complejo entramado que constituye el
mundo de célere y asentado prestigio del arte
contemporáneo.
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Fri, 25 Jan 2008
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"The Last Days of Paradise",oil on
canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2002,as the title makes
perfectly clear,unquestionably points out the
artist's intuitive premonition of his astounding
super productive Romantic Period's final
countdown and inevitable mysterious and cinematic
troubled ending.
ATLANTIS,Antonio Pessoa's macro space art
studio,stands today as thelegendary historical
evidence,and symbol of the artist's most
productive period up to now,during which an
intensive and eclectic method of art action had
thepower and ability to come up with one of the
most gigantic and striking fine art collections
of the twentieth century's last decade.
This accentuated fact,furnished with an
endless display of action movie,romantic
comedy,even drama,plus erotic unspeakable
episodes,mainly taking place in the dim-lit
seductively designed and decorated ATLANTIS
Studio,indeed gave birth to a wonderful,brilliant
and encyclopedic art production,matching the
great masters traditional modus
operandi,conduct,lifestyle,maximized efficiency
and outstanding creative commitment,where
detailed academic research,highly elaborated
projects of artistic performance,art
action,passion and energy systematically aiming
to create what indeed turned out to be and
impossible made possible six years in a row super-
human art production marathon.
However,these accomplishments and success
secrets,strange as it seems,still remain a public
mystery despite all the reports and eventual
speculation related to Pessoa's Romantic Period(
1997 - 2002 ) at the idyllic ATLANTIS art Home
Studio.
Despite the Romantic Period's ins and outs and
ups and downs,the artist was well aware that on
the whole he was living the time of his life,and
getting a kick out of his daily intensive art
making ritual and his bohemian city night life
unspeakable adventures.
Despite the fact that he was living and
painting basically or even entirely apart from
the worldwide art scene's ins,outs and
abouts,another extensive variety of stimulation
sources and resources were actually feeding his
inspiration,motivation, and creative burning
flame,arousing his organism to powerful art
action in such a way which has made Pessoa's
Romantic Period turn out to be an everyday mental
process involving contemporary art versions of
the twentieth century's reknown modern masters
let alone new ideas and concepts the artist
skillfully knew how to express on to his
thousands of artworks,namely oils and acrylics on
canvas,watercolors,mixed medias,drawings,sketches
and even unique style interesting installations.
Now the frequently asked question at stake
concerns the connection between Pessoa's taking
it global spontaneous footloose lifestyle and his
unbreakably self-disciplined daily art-making
implacability,serious approach,dependent upon
solid values of artistic commitment and absolute
devotion.
This unsolved mystery,brain teaser
riddle,mindbreaker puzzle,is still an on-going
challenge even for me,for his closest friends,let
alone all of them Antonio Pessoa's
fans,clients,admirers,fellow artists and public
in general.
Far from being an over and out archived-
investigation,Pessoa's Romantic Period
What,Why,Where and How,still unavailable
information summary,is a well alive issue and
biographical thrilling process to such an extent
that not even lyrical prose and appealing art
reviews seem to succeed to cool it down and let
it go,not at least for the time being.
ATLANTIS,after all has been for the artist a
once in a lifetime heavenly Paradise,fact and not
merely an assumption,given the so many told and
even untold signs available to invigorate this
hypothesis,or more accurately a shared theory
which is by now widely taken for granted.
Thereby,purposefully procrastinating worldwide
reputation and public recognition,Antonio Pessoa
during his Romantic Period's six years of growing
personal artistic realization and night life
breathless explorations,strange and crazy as it
seems and uniquely unambitious and ambiguously
self sufficient as it was indeed,earns more than
enough money to pay his three houses plus
extravaganza bills and embrace fine arts enjoying
the privilege of no interferences whatsoever,plus
carrying on living a romantic-erotic-artistic
lifestyle,lavishly
staged,spectacular,Kafkanian...apparently without
pondering whether it was worth the possibility of
a bigger time spending investment in the complex
boring process of a worldwide career situation
and his art universal promotion.
I can imagine how wonderful life was for the
artist,when,as far as the world art scene was
concerned,there was nothing to do therefore
wonderful to wake up glad to know nothing had
been left undone.
Nevertheless,in the meantime,Antonio Pessoa
without even being aware of it,is actually
creating what a few years later was bound to
become the heart and soul of his world
reputation.The Romantic Period!
ATLANTIS art studio was indeed Paradise!
I suppose that's why it might have been a
rather nostalgic moments time lost in the
universe of recent memories and in the feedback
of a present turning fast into past that Pessoa
imagined and actually painted " The Last Days of
Paradise ".
Winds of changes were blowing across the
Atlantic,just to put it in the best poetic way I
know how,highlighted signs of emotional
hurricanes and stormy chaos were showing up here
and there and everywhere,sometimes disguised as a
Celtic tale comedy-drama short episode,some other
times indeed making way for a dressed to kill
ruthless master of harsh reality.
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Wed, 23 Jan 2008
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Oh,my God!He did it again!He walks again along
the boulevard of contemporary art's cutting
edge,bouncing with vigorous invention,far beyond
the bounds of expected reasonable
possibilities,now coming up with this astonishing
autogenesis,charming and wonderfully
absurd,screaming colors disturbing the
standardized patterns of the on-going
tendencies,resembling some sort of special
effects sensational circus number,a striking
explosion of raging artistic
headlines,whatever,shockwaves of hiper chromatic
flash,loud and sustained,shrill and
piercing,animated gifts switching to moving
thingies,or so it seems,downright overwhelming
for any tolerant viewer's eyes,like mustard mix
with reddish and a whole lot of stripes!
Narrative powders,striking impressions all
over this tempting flavors shocking shimmery
festival!
Should the present approach be viewed as a
first step towards obtaining universal
recognition or must this be interpreted as the
historic golden keys to open the doors to the
seven templates before divine madness?
Antonio Pessoa's maddening prodigy of
composition,promising artistic isotopic
lunacy,colors entering the canvas like a visual
adaptation on some Stanley Kubrick conceptual
orgy,or a Steven Spielberg script digitized and
reconstructed in a indelibly haunting endlessly
fascinating gallery of adhesive
transitions,gorgeous enigmatic sentences
projecting a strong imperative impact where the
required invisible final touch seems long gone to
have turned into an intoxicating encore of
purposefully passionate variations of wild art
action super color magic velocity.
Cognitive materials at every crossroad
continue as if it has always been there without
even the grinding artistic percussion,building up
to break down,enter and exit in such a general
contrasting visual effect only an artist like
Pessoa could possibly come up with.Too much of
too much,indeed!Lovely.
Antonio Pessoa does it in such a unique way
that as far as I am concerned,New Line seems to
have no links with any contemporary art current
references whatsoever.Daring and new the artist
once again proves to be the unquestionable
cutting edge of today's art scene.
A free man and an independent eccentric art
maker,ecclectic in his glamorous lifestyle and
proud of his wealthy creativity,provides us
systematically with artistic real-time news,as in
New Line,more unusual than ever,the pretty boy of
today's big time art collectors,invisible to the
average citizen yet a growing public
phenomenon,Pessoa claims a new area of emotion-
oriented fine art,in which the resulting visual
effects link him to the top conceptual creators
of the new age by laying out the notion that the
possibility to accomplish the impossible is
merely the beginning of a long-term artistic
strategic context and most importantly an
artistic wide range communicative attitude.
The overpricing of initial art dealers
offerings this year,has developed a new somewhat
unexpected information concerning Antonio
Pessoa's latest oeuvre.His nineties Romantic
Period artworks adjustment was therefore
inevitable,creating the proper balance,moreover
extraordinary results not only in the artist's
finantial status but on the whole improving his
collaborators team working machine,plus a
significant
enthusiasm in public relations,spreading fast,as
an interchange of fluent dynamics,that degree of
global evaluation that appear to occur,very often
creating conflicts and contradictions between
Antonio Pessoa and the art market coverage areas
and promotion campaign that in reality means
little or nothing for the artist,at least from
his private assumption and his personal outlook
of the global context related to the art scene
general and sometimes obscure outs and abouts.
The hyperconfident Antonio Pessoa astounds
with his ability to express directly to the
viewers his artistic science,just to turn his
back to the tedious art market oscillations,as a
good chance and excellent excuse to go back to
his studio comfort,exploring the sectors of life
he enjoys the most.
Despite Pessoa's latest artistic preferences
and even model references such as Eugene
Brands,represented by Elisabeth den Bieman
Dehass,Jacques Bage,Arnold Niessen and Anne
Vignal,their artworks available at Galerie
Blom,Niklas Anderberg,Robert Brandy,Mario
Morunti,plus the amazing Gerard Hendriks,if I'm
not mistaken represented by Gallery Chicory...the
artist however seems to be moving towards a much
more advanced research of what contemporary art
can,should be and indeed is,accomplishing its
most dominant exuberance and distinguished
innovation in the spontaneous cutting edge ideas
such as New Line.
Antonio Pessoa's sustainable artistic maturity
and trajectory,despite being now and then
eventually favored at the expense of other
artists,such as Chris Berens,Dorien Plaat,Richard
Smeets,Joan Miró,Pollock,Harrie Gerritz and Klaas
Gubbels,on the whole he is essentially far more
original by embracing a awesome new way of art
expression where the dominant theme and nature is
unquestionably his colors unrestrained
movements,perhaps frequently with excessive
exuberance,although wisely mitigated by his
outstanding drawing skills and composition unique
possibilities,another dominant significance
highlighting the progress of his imagination
grandeur and inevitably seeking to enforce the
general public concept of what contemporary
expression should be as part of today's world
actions and reactions.
The evaluation and significance of
hyperchromatic New Line,should after all be left
to the personal judgement of the viewer,like an
overpigmented fine art atlas,a subjective
document where the eye and perception increase
their depth of focus and interpretation.
If the artist's intention was indeed to create
art-abstract with suggestive keywords or hidden
messages or even,shall we say,top classified
information,theoretically that could stand for a
tricky way of harmless playful perversion,meant
to inhibit the viewer diagnosis and in so doing
forcing a further challenge to the brain cells or
a double focused approach on the look out for a
suitable meaning possibly present somewhere
across the different components of such a
nutritious composition.
This balanced weighing up of evidence and
meaningful content might be as well Antonio
Pessoa's need of hope to challenge the viewer
attempt to collect some self-reflection using the
painting as a mirror,like a wall art made to test
the viewer's capacity to exercise introspection
or otherwise,to transcend the philosophical
limits and thereby start questioning the artist's
intentions,secret profile.
What one can feel and do before this intense
color traffic jam is one of the interesting
adventures any art lover can come across,standing
still in a crowded art show opening night,or at
the home-sweet-home privacy as any serious art
collector should.
My educated intuition and viewpoint whisper in
my ear that very probably,knowing the artist as I
actually do,that the law of attraction - even
dismissed the ultimate need for scientific proof -
might as well be playing an interesting role as
far as this masterpiece titled New Line is
concerned.
So it might happen that indeed Antonio
Pessoa's dominant thought during the making of
New Line,was actually telling him that he
attracts into his oeuvre reputation whatever he
thinks about.This subliminal message might have
been the hypnotic motivation I know he has,that
the wholesome of his latest and upcoming oeuvre
should and must attract the New Line of art
collectors.What do you know!
For so very often without sharpness of edge or
point Antonio Pessoa art expression can be as
direct and outspoken,some other times the artist
takes the opposite option,not led by any
circumstances changes,but as a delicious solution
for a specific artistic strategy,delivered
free,nevertheless keeping for himself a whole
great stock of valuable explanations and most
importantly a relevant amount of private
classified information.
And that's as much out in the open the
artist's inner self configuration manual goes.
The artistic impact hides the undiscovered
master of art fiction,a dimension of privacy not
even celebrity interviews nor steady gossip
manage to guess let alone figure out what's
behind the New Line!
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Tue, 22 Jan 2008
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Original and unique,mystical and
straightforward,charmingly shy and enthusiastic
communicator,hard worker and contemplative
procrastinator,Antonio Pessoa's nature lives up
to a rich controversial personality which indeed
has beed the heart and soul of his cinematic
adventurous lifesyle.Fact.
A " no two alike" myth,this artist,jazz-blues
musician,art curator and positive-thinker,remains
an up to date phenomenon after all these years of
experiencing systematically the leading role of a
nail-bitting motion picture which could be
eventually titled "Antonio Pessoa the One and
Only ".
I'm positively sure,his aristocratic
background and super-protected privileged
childhood education,let alone his unquestionable
genetic talent he possesses,have been the seeds
for him to grow and become a premature
prodigy,even featuring the performance
characteristics of a dazzling skilled in any
field sort of teenager.
Therefore Antonio Pessoa throughout the years
has been leading a kind of life we only see in
the best and most exciting Hollywood
productions,from ever since the time he was
twelve years old up to now.
Very probably,that's why all his art is so
deliciously eclectic,exciting and new,that's
definitely why his whole oeuvre is what it is.An
awe-inspiring universe of
wonder,genius,complexity and over the edge
overwhelming content.
Since the time,me,Jacob Kotsky,with the
valuable assistance help from Luis Santiago,Nancy
Igartiburu and Pierre Fontanals,started writing
and publishing online all about an artist named
Antonio Pessoa,back in 2005,we've been receiving
hundreds of letters from people from all over
Europe and United States,on a punctual weekly
basis asking us an impressive great deal of extra
information related with this mysterious
artist.More than enough to provide us with
substantial motivation to carry on with our
reviews and general interest arousing
biographical articles about Pessoa's life and
work.
Being all the four of us close friends of the
artist,public relations and global
collaborators,references and accurate reliable
information sources hasn't been a problem for
very obvious reasons,moreover I'm happy to report
that this process on the whole has been and it is
mostly truly stimulating,enjoyable and
rewarding.Fact.
All this takes place precisely when
Pessoa,mind made up,decides to break up with his
traditional figurative paintings to embrace
exclusively contemporary fine art,surprising us
all as he systematically comes up with a totally
different line of work,Pierre Fontanals named New
Era,in which Antonio Pessoa once again proves to
be indeed a unquestionable gifted talented
innovator,by so originally starting to produce a
series of canvases and watercolors clearly
reflecting a no way back personal commitment and
response to the latest contemporary art
tendencies,where not only a striking chromatic
miscellaneous brilliance invades his canvases
space,but also where his drawing skills
astonishingly accomplish the cutting edge and
beyond of today's art expression,all so
intelligently combined,so unpretentiously
aesthetically elegant and glamorous in such a
manner of a highly inventive visual writing of a
kind of emotional fiction that captures the
viewer's sensations at first sight.
One of the most frequently asked questions
about the artist,still concerns his somewhat
cloudy past,namely the late eighties and the
super productive golden years of the nineties.
Being Antonio Pessoa the paradigmatic
straighforward sort of person,it's not always
that easy and simple to make him talk about his
past,let alone twenty years ago today.
However,since I've met him, from the very
first time back in the year 1997,I've been having
plenty of time to,shall we say,solve the big
puzzle,bit by bit,tip by tip,step by step.
Therefore,as I became ritualized in Pessoa's
hidden secrets,and the flipping schemes involving
his outs and abouts of his past,private life,work
and lifestyle,solving the riddle the best way I
knew how,the complexity of the whole endless
process actually turned out to be indeed a truly
challenging and rewarding experience,a delicious
hard brain teaser,solving the enigma wrapped in
mystery,adventure,night life,studio
performance,love affairs,glamor and the
inevitable unexpected drastic changes.
During the mid-late eighties,long before the
first Gulf War,Antonio Pessoa is a night-life
legend,a jazz-blues musician skillfully playing
the grand-piano and singing,performing to
perfection new versions of songs by The
Beatles,Elton John,Simply Red,Prince,Paul
McCartney,Billy Joel,The Doors,The Eagles,James
Taylor,Police,Television,Roxy Music,David
Bowie,and even Elvis,Sinatra,plus tunes by John
Coltrane,Miles Davis and George Gershwin.
Cherished by an excited nightly audience he
often took the tonight programme a whole lot
further on into the morning light by using his
sketching and drawing skills overwhelming his
celebrating fans club community by painting
live,on stage,under the spotlight.
According to many of his soul mates,show biz
agents,all time friends and audience inocent
bystanders years later we've been stumbling
upon,here and there and everywhere,the magic of
these daily live art shows animated
entertainment,was one of Pessoa's most clamouring
and most enjoyable periods ever,where fine art
was a dancing all night away live play in which
Antonio Pessoa besides having the leading
role,was also indeed having the time of his
life,let alone the inevitable great improvement
concerning his artistic performance mastery and
expertise.
Being by then already a truly experienced live
performance veteran,it's no big deal and no
wonder the artist was definitely able to handle
the situation with that effortless stunning
ravishing easy-to-do know-how which made him step
on the stage and thereby become the prototype
unique symbol of live art action of our times.
Even during the nineties,right at his career
apotheosis,as he successfully turned and strode
toward the top of the hill of his striking
worldwide reknown Romantic Period,Pessoa now and
then breaks through the boundaries of his art
studio and goes
back to the night life yet for another display of
fine art action live performances,both in the
sunny cosmopolitan glamorous mediterranean zone
and in celtic inspired Vigo city Atlantic frantic
weekends lively night life.
Unpredictable as he is,it seems only the
future will be able to actually show us whether
or not Pessoa's live art action is over for good.
The answer for this frequently asked question
for the time being remains in the holy secret of
the Gods,for in my humble
opinion,anytime,anywhere,anyway,anyhow,definitely
it wouldn't be the surprise of the century if the
artist made up his mind to return to that lively
dimension of his life where painting live
eventually might bring him that kind of
magic,that sort of rewarding
inspiration,thrilling excitement and inner
satisfaction,we all so desperately need from time
to time,here and then,once in a while,in order to
make us feel meaningfully alive to such an extent
in which we come once again to that delicious
point where life once again makes absolute
perfect sense,people is beautiful and this planet
a wonderful place to celebrate life and arts!
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