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WORLDWIDE . Antonio Pessoa
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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!
Posted 11:29
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