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WORLDWIDE . Antonio Pessoa
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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.
Posted 16:15
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