Antonio Pessoa ' FINE ART net Mirror

The Masterpiece

2008-03-21T04:40:00.002-07:00

2008-03-21T04:40:00.001-07:00

Antonio Pessoa

The Masterpiece

Antonio Pessoa recently came up with a rather brilliant concept named "MASTERPIECE".Not what you might be thinking or imagining right now.Not a painting,at least for the time being but actually a high-quality concept related with Mind Power and subsequently with art performance and lifestyle know-how.In short,the artist decides to turn his life into a spectacular Masterpiece! Breaking News! A Kingdom where everything fits and everything makes perfect sense,even when apparently the circumstances point out to the red lights of a general puzzling situation and sometimes even chaos. Sitting in his Doing without Doing comfortable leather armchair,Pessoa turns on his striking Mind Explorer search engine and after downloading the latest updates he is ready for another voyage across the Super Mind Universe. No matter how long it takes,he only takes action when his intuitive-logical reasoning makes sure everything makes perfect sense once again and it's action time! Not only deep down inside but throughout his year-after-year journey increasing awareness and self confidence,Pessoa truly knows how - one way or another - order out of chaos,train his brain and body for focused success and thereby once again make a striking Masterpiece out of his personal and professional life. After all he has proven to be a genius,not only in his larger than life high quality art expression,but overcoming disappointment,setbacks and at last check as by magic come the other side emotionally a whole lot stronger. When the contemporary master painted FREE,he sure knew exactly what he had in mind,what he was spiritually and emotionally up to,in short,set himself free of all the negative forces,turn on his super powerful imagination,install his wide Knowledge toolbar and higher,taller and stronger than ever,totally focused on his top of the list priorities,relax,cool down,and now with his easy- to-do intuition machine in full- swing...Abracadabra!Make a sensational Masterpiece out of his life.Free! It seems as if the artist starts everyday with a clean white canvas where he is going to express his top secrets to success and proceed with them in all that he will do 24 hours in a row. Surrounded himself with a team of believers,professionals in all areas,ready to step out everyday and network within his scope of top of the list priorities and Must accomplishments,his life is unquestinably day after day becoming a true Masterpiece.Fact. Antonio Pessoa,inevitably the Captain of his own ship,besides his challenging art studio performance,keeps on developing his mindset, leadership skills and global attitude in order to be able to take risks on a daily basis,confront systematic changes with open arms,thereby amazingly attracting all that he wants and creating his own MASTERPIECE ! Excellent concept.He actually named it to claim it! To turn disadvantages and setbacks into advantages and prosperity,has indeed become one of his most remarkable talents,let alone his mastery when it comes to listen and follow his intuition and instinct,a reference brand of his global reputation. Thereby,no wonder Antonio Pessoa's innovative concept of Life-beautiful and Free,meaning The Masterpiece,is not only achieving the unlimited nature of personal happiness,but actually creating already a consistent now-reality in his professional commitments and most important of all in his Life's rock solid integrity,perfect sense and global success! The way I see it (...and I'm not the only one...) - and believe me,I know what I'm talking about - the artist's fascinating and very specifically,rewarding process of setting himself Free...and consequently lead a truly fulfilling life,excelling in art performance,personal issues and professional systematic accomplishments...is indeed by now coming up with truly amazing positive results. By adding The Masterpiece factor into the Free brilliant equation,Pessoa instantly illustrates this with such a magnificent contemporary fine art king-size canvas precisely titled FREE! Antonio Pessoa thereby uses the Art-Pleasure- Time principle as an instant,also efficient gratification,his transparent secret with a potentially very big result.Emotional Freedom! However,his top commitments more than remaining safely untouched,they gradually gain more and more positive attitude and mind-power togetherness.A truly fantastic combination. Maybe (just maybe ) I have the privilege to be among the few people who actually fully understands the artist's outlook of life and most importantly his sharp perception of his inner- self. That's another reason which contributes to make Free,one of the most significant,important and meaningful paintings of his latest art collection. Let me explain. Antonio Pessoa,more than anyone I came across in my life,fully understands the power of his thought and imagination,enabling him to establish the "Doing without Doing" concept as one of his most dominant omnipresent Zen-oriented visualization of effortless action based in the wise principle that says that in the practice of the way,everyday something is dropped,less and less do you need to force things until finally you arrive at supreme manifestation through powerful action,only this time now with no struggle whatsoever. That is the artist's out in the open secret,the very heart and soul of his Masterpiece conceptual visualization and definitely his stairway to Freedom. Free,is the paradigmatic painting which - for obvious reasons - turned out to get the important task of being the gatekeeper-guarding the emotional freedom visualization that is increasingly growing and gaining solid shape,body,meaning and power in the artist's mind. Antonio Pessoa is by now unquestionably the spiritual forerunner of all contemporary artists.This great truth is known to all his closest friends,and as good news also travel fast,this truth is thereby becoming globally accepted,cheered and admired by a wide community of art lovers and public in general,thereby gradually becoming his faithful followers,as the artist's energetic waves vibrate and are brought near them as a new revelation artistic-spiritual sympathetic resonance. The Masterpiece concept making way for an impressive and remarkable positive transformation coming into his life,is constantly feeding his creative inspiration with brand-new aspects of reality,innovative images and cutting-edge ideas. Free,is the best example so far of this mindfulness,self-awareness and positive beliefs aiming at achieving the most rewarding of all goals.Art Supreme...and Emotional Freedom! A Life quickly becoming a Masterpiece! Virtue elements,such as focus,patience,tenacity and commitment,have been some of the better options in the artist's life throughout the years up to now,providing him with a relaxed,glamorous,fulfilling lifestyle,thereby allowing not only his artistic achievements pursuit sufficient time to grow and develop but also his personal-social life to have a brilliant positive impact on the non-fiction amazing story that his life has been,is and most certainly will be. As for now,prioritizing important issues such as turn his life into a Masterpiece,is where imagination ties in with focus,the dream of yet a better present and an even better future,by placing more value on the steps in between and all along the way! Not only mind-power,inner-self awareness and determination are required,but actually a great deal of talent,yes,talent aiming at reaching the wonderful state of Freedom by making Life the ultimate Masterpiece. The Light by which Antonio Pessoa's life is systematically guided,more than the lamp of experience,is the burning flame of positive thinking and rock solid courage to accomplish higher levels of personal growth,such as total emotional Freedom,a wonderland of supreme happiness inspired by the world's greatest faith.Universal Love! The Masterpiece concept,the artist's ultimate formula,is by now powerfully crushing and eliminating the last negative influences bad seeds and definitely providing him with a grab-it- now,go-for-it super vital energy and consequently with a cutting edge skyrocket quality artistic productivity. Antonio Pessoa's Free,and Live-the-Life-you- dream Masterpiece concept,takes off from his solid mindset,his technique of powerful visualisation as he actually put himself successfully in a privileged situation of global fulfillment. Here we go.You might enjoy reading the next paragraphs to grasp the concept and thereby come closer to fully understand the artist's fascinating universe. For starters,the difference between him and most of today's art scene contemporary artists,believe me,is the very fact that he has developed,particularly throughout the past three years,a very focused,trained and powerful Mind.Now,Pessoa visualises,feels,emotionally reasons and at last he can invent and communicate every innovative idea through quality art expression.Read more... FREE...anf the Masterpiece concept is after all the beautiful togetherness,a global living arquitectural breakthrough entitled to expand his knowledge,perception and every available emotional tools - mind,body and soul - an apparently complex process,however for him,due to his large experience and mastery in this field,a pleasurable easy-to-do emotional and intuitive processor that by now enables him to excel in art studio performance,to live and enjoy life to its fullest extent. Unlimited Freedom!FREE-What is the world public saying by now about Antonio Pessoa's winds of changes...as far as their eyes can see?Is his quality new line of contemporary fine art series an accurate reflection of his successful dynamic lifestyle? Let me explain. The Masterpiece concept is above all the artist's state of mind. The thought that we always have the choice is one of the most relevant notions of the Free canvas process,very particularly Antonio Pessoa's The Masterpiece concept.Through this free options endless Universe,the artist stands before every each of his now life's red traffic lights at the intersection he is eventually and actually daily approaching.That's precisely where experience,knowledge,decision-taking efficiency,talent,perception,intuition and most importantly,imagination,do actually come in. A great living combination is seriously at stake,Life Supreme,Art Emotion,The Masterpiece! And so it seems,as I personally profoudly believe it,there's no way back. He never gives in,never in nothing,great or small,large or petty,he never,never gives in except to convictions of Freedom,Emotional Greatness,Universal Love,global good sense...Life Supreme...The Masterpiece! The Masterpiece concept,as Pessoa visualises it,is really about making a wonderful life-plan and following through,cultivating innovative ideas and the mindset that is by now bringing him joy,fulfillment and excellent artistic performance.The Masterpiece concept turns out to be after all mainly a mental toolkit of practices he does implement to ensure his thoughts and actions lead to a quality level of Life Supreme! In two words - worth two thousand two hundred images - the wise Masterpiece freedom generating process,holds the golden secret keys to unleashing full global togetherness,super potential and definitely a rewarding legendary life. Waking up for a striking new adventure,that is the question and that is the miracle at stake.Values and beliefs,talents and passions,true purpose and life absolute meaning...The Masterpiece,Antonio Pessoa's everlasting partner and lifetime commitment,starting yesterday its fascinating non- fiction motion picture,bound to make a big,big difference and just about to take place in the huge magical screen of Universal Freedom Inn. Pessoa's effective Masterpiece concept generates desire to strive for things that were thought to be impossible before.The greatest reward lies in positive thinking,thereby the artist's mental conditioners to power up his Masterpiece absolute conceptual process,art long programming his whole vital energy and creativity to strive for the dreams he loves the most,setting his sights on higher artistic and public performances as his global abilities and skills grow in structure,quality,effectiveness and communicative chemistry. The stairway to everlasting emotional Freedom! That's absolutely contemporary,that's magical,that's Art,that's the ultimate cutting- edge Masterpiece! Aiming at the ultimate power of spiritual- emotional-social-universal-artistic Freedom,Antonio Pessoa adopts the pace of nature,his Secret leading him fast to the wonderful Life Supreme. Plenty of time researching,studying,thinking and patiently feeling,gut instinct development pointing towards the right direction...when everything suddenly starts making perfect sense and all the natural elements come into place,the perfect life's combination,exactly what it was meant to be,a worthwhile awesome adventure,the Free state of mind,the absolute togetherness,The Masterpiece. Simple as that...in spite of the inevitable complexity and commitment intensiveness of the long but rewarding journey. The artist uses his mind to create the wonderful reality he desires by forming a clear image of the true purposes of his life including his art performance daily living and brilliant creativeness. This spacious Universe of materializing and particularly manifesting this interesting talented and delightful combination,is actually where he is totally focused in driving his full potential into.Basically the idea is to follow a path of mind control that is by now leading him to experience a supreme state of consciousness,powerfully effective and bright like a transparent crystal,thereby accomplishing whatever form of lifestyle and art expression he wishes and decides to explore and consequently achieve. A blissful concept,the ultimate level of quality imagination,the absolute chemistry of higher conceptual elements aiming at a better,faster,richer living experience. Freedom,the ultimate destination of life transformation,is the artist's current key formula he has come up with to indeed being able to influence imagination to such an extent that effortlessly life's whole combination becomes...The Masterpiece! Some kind of Magic! Living in the fast lane of Elite,Pessoa goes on and on and on...inventing his own lifestyle.His philosophy on life is very simple.Life is too great to be little and he isn't specially concerned with what other people thinks of him.He knows he can solve most of the daily problems,his strenght lies within,it doesn't come from any outside forces. Self - Education of the highest merit! Thereby he takes chance after chance,aiming for the ultimate Freedom through imagination,individual style,truth,self- faithfulness and most importantly,a super motivated minset. A hero of his self-made circumstances,Antonio Pessoa travels through the big Art City,visiting systematically the affluent,high-class neighborhood,talks to the art collectors,artists,art critics,gallerists,just to discover the same old thing. There are a whole lot more exciting opportunities out of the art scene zone,just about to be explored.The Keys,so he keeps on telling me all of the time,are quite simple.Whatever he gives his attention to and focuses on, shapes his Supreme Combination,the artist creates the perfect stage to determine and thereby create his ultimate destiny.Creative success,emotional prosperity and absolute happiness,resulting in the magical rewarding cause and effect all in one. The Masterpiece! It's definitely not an illusion.It's a Must on- going now-reality,taking place in every aspect of Pessoa's increasingly exciting life. This larger than life concept,made reality by the artist,holding with rock solid determination the handle of faith,has landed in the Here and Now Wonderland of the one thousand and one secrets of stress-free life. No adrenaline rushes required,even when the art scene pressure gets as hot as hot can be. Consumed with loving,playful artistic performance,enjoying inner,professional and social life fully,Antonio Pessoa is absolutely trusting the supreme flow,connected with a high- level of emotional potential and a perpetual vital energy,a freedom flow of bliss within himself.The ecstasy everlasting state he has achieved successfully using invention and full- swing imagination as the Ultimate Oeuvre,the higher form of Art,where the entire Universe became his playground and Freedom the omnipresent flow of his River of Life! Divine mindfullness in the Now,celebrating the Now state of perpetual ebb and flow of the tides,celebrating his fulfilling existence and in so doing becoming the Master of his Art,of all arts,and most important of all the Master of Life. The Truth shows up as the rising summer sun,showing the wonderful infinite nature of The Masterpiece! Sharp cognitive abilities and imagination are the artist's basic essentials in the exciting process of the making of The Masterpiece. Mind power function efficiently zaps away all negative forces and interferences,and a new striking creative energy flows and his nutrient imagination is optimal to such an extent that putting all the pieces together to solve life's mysterious puzzles and overcome all obstacles and crossroads,suddenly turns out to be a rather enjoyable,entertaining easy-to-do task,and the more he now experiences Life Supreme the better it becomes. Pessoa's now powerful attraction to manifest what he wishes the most,Emotional Freedom and Super Artistic Performance,is the golden key to the Masterpiece concept,to the Absolute Freedom project absolute effectiveness,perception of himself and reality making the whole Universe conspire and thereby providing him with the magical tools to make and update the top quality privilege of living and being alive,while achieving the highest level of self- fulfillment.Life Supreme! At last,Here and Now,so easy to do it in a snap.Just fun ways for the artist to raise his manifesting vibration and thereby reach higher and higher levels of hopefulness,expectation,art studio action perfect alignment,joy,excitement,emotional intelligence,literally taking full control of life and manipulating at will the making of his most adventurous,daring,colorful and rewarding ultimate Work of Art. It seems to be more than perfectly clear,there is no doubt that artist Antonio Pessoa is fully determined to achieve his Masterpiece-Oeuvre resolutions,one by one,one day at a time for ever and starting yesterday.That's his wisest choice and he's doing it today,tomorrow,everyday.He turns his Masterpiece concept resolution in a few,easy-to-do simple common sense steps.He dares to dream,he excells in decision-making,he intuitively defines the abstract notions of living,developing plans,dreams,visions and projects,and he does it on a pleasurable,exciting systematic daily basis.A permanent Life Supreme lifetime resolution,something so wonderful that is with him for good.Furthermore it's pretty obvious he has become a much better artist,a privileged man,he is loving it all the way and enjoying the exciting journey.Free! It's vitally important to put what the artist Free process is all about,into words.The concrete steady meaning of the canvas creates right from the start an enduring set of exciting short- term,long-term commitments,however almost a virtual space in which is spontaneously visualized and emotionally accomplished in one fell swoop the whole concept of quality living. A Big Dream?Definitely.By all means the greatest Artwork Pessoa could have possibly come up with,the most challenging,exciting and rewarding of all dreams. Must I remind you - just in case - the level where all Life elements Must and do Match! The Supreme Understanding as to how the artist deals with his life,relationships and his career path,which fits entirely into the Free - Freedom - process and into the frame of the Masterpiece combination phenomenon. Time out!The artist decided before taking the first steps to make this real commited decision. Freedom was the priority number one,The Prize,and as a result,living a life of excellence turned out to be a current natural process in his awesome agenda. And he is definitely succeeding! The Magnet keeps on growing in strength and alignment,the energy to excel gains more power as imagination keeps on producing more and more creative elements filling up the exciting colorful puzzle-game titled The Masterpiece. However,there is no single secret.It's rather a combination of many different items.A Formula! The following principles,imagination,universal love,strategies,emotional positive heartbeat and daily fully determined action are after all the magical stepping stones leading him to become the paradigmatic high achiever aiming for accomplishing the ultimate artwork ever.Free! Changing artist Antonio Pessoa's entire life and art performance! Surpassing anything that our imaginations can conjure,Antonio Pessoa's Masterpiece concept is yielding mega results by now.Fact. The artist's strong message to share with the world,that's also the Free concept Art to Life,Mind-Power to Freedom,artist to public congeniality. Built on sustained,consistent and honest prescription values,Antonio Pessoa's Masterpiece master phenomenon - definitely not an overnight success - acknowledges on the whole that living a Life Supreme,far from being a whimsical dream,is by all means turning out to be a fine tuned now- reality quickly on it's way up the ladder to absolute Freedom!

Journal

2008-02-15T08:06:00.001-08:00

2008-02-15T08:05:00.001-08:00

Antonio Pessoa

Journal

Antonio Pessoa STUDIO 1 Now that the mild mediterranean winter is gone once again the whell of the year has brought the warm air and the sugary smell of springtime,inspiring bursts of colors exploding in the sky then landing in the artist's studio up for a happy display of art sessions as they float down the river of Antonio Pessoa's imagination,the magical springtime creative fuel inspiring wall-size images,gorgeous motions,amazing tales and awesome contemporary fireworks! Now that the hibernation is over the create- criteria is back again,a warm welcome back Mr.Art Magician,after the festive cold December Saturday Nights,it seems we now have a full calendar of live studio performance,the one thing about Pessoa we fortunately can always count on. The artist is once again inspired,motivated and willing to share that gifted talent with others.We expect him to remain rock-solid back in business in order to approach his art magic in better and more powerful ways. So let's take a trip through the world of the charismatic fine art storyteller,meet the man,see his ideas,feel his emotions and enjoy his lastest oeuvre. Welcome my friends to Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1,the space where it's taking place another intensive,unpredictable art action period. The artist's Home Studio is now divided in seven departments,each one of them specially equipped with huge stocks of art material for different specific functions performances.With this plurality of art labs,the artist moves about the mansion,his living and creative domain,a professionally organized art factory,where the upcoming fine art wonders are just about to happen,certainly bound to give birth to another astonishing art collection. That's the life,that's the way to do it,Ladies and Gentlemen,in order to accomplish his traditional , reputable super art production,from drawings to collages,from watercolors to king- size canvases. Here comes the sun and consequently here comes another artistic marathon which surely will culminate in yet another amazing series of striking contemporary artworks. During the year 2007,Antonio Pessoa becomes one of the most reviewed artists in the world,thanks to my spare time retired reporter condition and a very special thank you to Pierre Fontanals,Luis Santiago and Nancy Anderson,just to mention a few,who had the ability to know how to establish and maintain a fantastic teamwork spirit and light atmosphere.Also a very special thank you to the artist for his punctual,regular collaboration concerning our private and group sessions,providing us with truthful and accurate information about his past and current life outs and abouts,plus his remarkable assistance related to helping us to understand and decipher the deep meaning of his huge oeuvre artworks,one by one. Like old valuable manuscripts,translating,interpreting Pessoa's past and current artworks plus rather relevant aspects of his past and current private life,providing exemplary and valuable information to our customers and public,has been and it is always a rather intensive laborious task,let alone putting it all down in words,turning them into easy-digest literature articles aiming at a wide range of art lovers and public in general,which is the final process,however definitely not the easiest one. Since the extravagant golden years of Antonio Pessoa's renown,even mythical and legendary Romantic Period,1997-2202,Studio 1 in the year 2007 succeeded becoming one more time a brand-new version of the late nineties artistic production phenomenon,this time now featuring the positive prominent aspects and best characteristics of a serious full-lengh commitment to a totally original new line of striking contemporary fine art. Financially supported by a list of more than five thousand regular clients,local and international,Antonio Pessoa uses this particular privilege to create totally stress-free,focused on his studio work and most importantly making truly artistic wonders with no negative interferences whatsoever,let alone the highly annoying stigma of worry,rush,hurry and smashing pressure. Therefore,it's been within this pleasurable and relaxing microclimate that the positive atmosphere of Studio 1,gave and gives birth to the most genuine Antonio Pessoa's quality art performance up to now.Fact. 2007 has been a year of great ideas and new accomplishments,increasing the artist's composition level and skills.Most importantly it's been a year throughout which Pessoa has proven to have the proper knowledge,determination and vision to reinforce his style and brand,and in so doing building a general idea and reputation concerning his new oeuvre,the wonderful purity of his contemporary fine art cutting edge. Easy and readable for the average viewer,transparent and impactful for the erudite art-connoisseurs educated taste,in spite of the great amount of mystery and ambiguity,purposefully challenging the eye and the senses with the sweet-bitter flavour of vagueness,that playful misleading multi-defined symbology with a value which arouses our aesthetic pleasure before a specific oeuvre when the boundaries of meaning are indistinct. Still too premature to tell and comment from such a short perspective the extent to which Studio 1 is going to become another mythical historic prodigious phenomenon such as Antonio Pessoa's Romantic Period,we might as well however consider the possibility that this previously explored area,might actually already be moving upwards in such an apparently invisible manner we can't afford to detect,let alone see,for the results haven't quite yet turned out to be unquestionable facts,nevertheless,knowing the artist's creativeness,imagination and power of attraction,one should already safely assume,presume and even take for granted that eventually anything is possible,even our wildest dreams and expectations related with Pessoa's upcoming soon future,no matter how skeptical our worldly common sense tells us our outlook should be. Five breathtaking years have gone by since the last days of the Romantic Period,definitely not an eternity yet a space in time adventurous enough to launch the idea that indeed Antonio Pessoa should be by now a different man from the light cheerful one from those extravagant days of Atlantis. However this concept or evaluation could easily make it sound like the overstatement of the century. In spite of the inevitable facts,priority issues plus the artist's current general situation aren't what they used to be,the man's nature remains intrinsically the same whereas his maturity has developed a trained discernment,inevitably conducting to a substantial body of new and stronger capabilities,a new fundamental inner-self emotional autonomy and obviously a remarkable updated approach to contemporary art expression and communication. The artist's 2007 Timeless Time Art Collection - http://timelesstime- artcollection- ap.blogspot.com - can be used as the most reliable mirror,reflecting,witnessing,reporting and consequently helping us to reinforce this theory and subscribe to this point of view,for it's plenty understood by now that Antonio Pessoa's latest oeuvre has the conspicuous self biographical caliber and attitude of a diary. Paintings such as Universal Time,Free,Out of the Blue,Cosmic Cognition,Spiritual Light,Night Wits,Burning Flame,Living Joy,Night Gospel,etc,show us clearly the artist's full commitment to an evolutionary path for a self discovery therapy intensive apprenticeship. Through this systematic daily ritual focused on exploring health and wellness,self- discipline,personal growth and spiritual power,Antonio Pessoa reaches a dimension of art expression of broad sensorial horizons and consequently attracting and leading the viewers to this wonderful,fulfilling experience,embarking them on the realms of the mind's infinite inner potential. This spiritual transformation steadiness,has been so far the step by step progress to mastery,which made way for a considerable amount of followers willing to share,learn and grow with the available intructing support,tutorials and guidance of Pessoa's knowledge and wisdom. Even some of his pragmatically irrefutable pro- real-life skeptical good old friends such as Ariana Sabugal,Marie Louise Lambert,Carmen Olaya and Marc Gilot,seem to have unconditionally surrendered to the tempting delights and well- being excellent prospects of the artist's spiritual method at last check. Marie Louise Lambert and Marc Gilot after a couple of weeks living in the relaxing peaceful comfort of Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1,went back to Paris with a new outlook of life and most importantly genuinely converted to the Universal Awareness rewarding principles. No big surprise after all.These purifying winds of changes blowing across the artist's life and perception,driving him to looping and swirling into a more relaxed spiritual state,have proven to be the expected prophetic reference featuring an entirely new living formula and lifestyle,opening windows overlooking a freshwater river of freedom,happiness and heavenly joy. Thereby,no wonder that creative visualization,spiritual growth,mind power,free inspiration,turned out to become the essential keys for Antonio Pessoa's increasing personal success,let alone the materialization of one of his most striking quality contemporary fine art series. Striving to provide an affordable alternative to average contemporary art,Antonio Pessoa's approach to developing a totally new concept of abstract fine art came up with brilliant results mainly during the past two years,by creating through spontaneous action art an absolutely free style,in which an impressive traffic of colors and symbols play an important role in providing the viewer with thousands of interpretation options prominently featured like a magic engine,and in so doing the artist manages to pull in a significant immediate steady stream of awesome visual illusions. In spite of going on using the traditional fine art thecnical concept of the great modern masters,Pessoa indeed succeeds creating a cutting- edge innovative visual potential with additional subjective codes,the viewers readily join and enjoy with effortless increasing curiosity,enthusiasm and amusing uncertainty. If Antonio Pessoa - Romantic Period's Studio Atlantis was characterized by an extravagant atmosphere,the soul of a vast scenery of hiper- intensive art performance,modern art- oriented,Studio 1,has been so far cultivating a worldwide attitude and a flamboyant outlook of today's art scene,fact which results flow turned out to be a dynamic on-going project inspired by a strong,impactful contemporary fine art prototype plus an artistic unmistakable stamp and brand. The immense potential of Pessoa's Studio 1, is as yet far from being fully worked out and for a long time to come will have to prove the effectiveness of its intentions,by meeting international specific targets and furthermore be able to understand the demands and timing of a whole new generation of art gallery owners,art collectors,art lovers,media and worldwide public. Studio 1's Project is surfing through multiple waves of fresh ideas and new concepts,not only related with the creation of a relevant new abstract formula of contemporary art but also inspired by Antonio Pessoa's increasing interest in the rewarding process of the discovery of inner self and subconscious mind infinite potential. These and those issues are actually succeeding creating a rather amazing togetherness making way for both a new spiritual vision and the new art vision already an on-going full swing experimentation,which results are by now available for the world's eye throughout the artist's latest series. However unpredictable as life itself,Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1 already highlights an overview into the future,personal methods of extracting innovative artistic and practical solutions,by now stimulated by the public reactions and effects to the artist's latest creative proliferation let alone his quality art expression achievements and striking improvement. Antonio Pessoa Perception Nothing is ever too much,nothing is ever too universal,nothing is ever too wonderful when it comes the time for any art lover to enter Antonio Pessoa's world of Perception,Art,Poetry and Awareness. As in the final countdown,his life has developed the wildest ride of a thrilling cyclone roller coaster,pleasure mixed with Blues,quickly become a firm creative power,one of those that turns you upside-down.If you don't know what it is like to really live on the edge,then take my good advice and start reading all you can about Antonio Pessoa,the most brilliant and thrilling adventure of today's contemporary art scene.Fact! All reviews and information about the artist are essentially a breathtaking unique biography,mixing chills with fun,mixing art with life itself. Danger,passion,intense emotions,blues and Opera,Comedy and Drama,are the face of one of the world's most spectacular cutting edge artists. PERCEPTION? Find the answer to this question and millions more,in this enjoyably dark,yet still very sensual and romantic lifestyle. Straight right up to the tension filled final of every of his artistic and real-life performances,when he will have you on the edge of your emotional box. Perception,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,is unquestionably a result of many years of studio art action experience,research and reflection,a brilliant colorful abstract painting where the viewer is face to face with images propagating amazing waves of colors,light and sound being pleasantly thrown to the eye and our senses right from the canvas surface. One of the most charming artworks of Pessoa's 2007 art collection,Perception has that special buzz of excitment,rapid vibration,motion and strong visual impact,yet it's soothing something projects almost a healing energy for mind,body and the eye,inspiring poetic sensations of pure organic fountains,plus that chromatic quality in the whole of its exuberant,abstract,sensuously radiant affinities of colors and symbols. Expressing a new vision and a totally new artistic vocabulary,Perception has that abstract expressionism unique lyrical style,nevertheless also clearly influenced by surrealism,conceptual art,yet never missing the futurism artistic design Pessoa is so fond of,thereby creating that linear decorative dynamic impact,plus a reaction leading to subjective and entirely free interpretation. Regardless of his increasing artistic skills and striking creativeness,Antonio Pessoa becomes more and more popular mainly for his unique lifestyle and his inner-self personal achievements,acquiring world-renown prestige and wide credibility,through the stimulating and rewarding process of how to unlock his full potential for striking artistic performance,personal success and a high quality professional level,becoming his international autograph,the significance of how his impressive fast self-improvement in all areas and attitudes has indeed accelerated his echoing reputation as a fully commited spiritual guide,expert,let alone his highly-respected artistic vision,inner and universal Perception. Paying tribute to him and in faithful recognition of his multiple achievements,close friends,collaborators,art critics,clients,art collectors and soul mates of the fine art trade,now frequently honor him with a natural awestruck approach and genuine admiration. Entering his studio,very often demanding his wise advice,show us clearly how so many people enjoy being in the realms of his glowing positive energy,happy,free,safe and at ease before his charismatic and charming manner in which Pessoa's ambiguous relation with life,people and the Universe,translates a highly advanced Perception,making obvious that living feeling alive is not a special gift or a way of going through life,but actually the only one. Perception,the dream of life creativeness as outcome of Antonio Pessoa's number one priority,it starts in the character of a solid experienced artist,reinforced through daily research in all areas with inspiring enthusiasm,attracting affection,love and respect among all his friends,collaborators and public in general. If indeed Pessoa is helplessly becoming a inevitable life coach,that's not what's at stake right now,for most importantly is the fact he is becoming one of the most inspiring art wizards of today's art scene. Antonio Pessoa's Perception creates clarity and eliminates doubt,invents a higher level of positive motivation,his confidence in himself and in his abilities grow,the artist actually sees what he can be! Often,the hardest thing about visioning is actually having the Perception of what we want to bring into existence can actually be accomplished. To really make it happen,and he sure does,Pessoa supersedes his own doubts and has a sense of certainty that what he wants can be accomplished. The artist on his vision has a faith in Perception that is greater than his fears and it's willing to open his mind to see beyond the confines of what he is facing today.Remarkable,indeed! Antonio Pessoa Trial by Fire Once again the artist delivers the ultimate thrill,as we all look genuinely awestruck before one more It's Hard to Believe sort of challenge,through which the art creator's puzzling experiments insist in preparing us yet for another public Watchout session.Fair enough. What is this all about,after all,you may ask.Let me explain. Commited himself to the achievement os self- development all areas highest levels,Antonio Pessoa combines information...or should I say,Knowlrdge ...from multiple resources,thereby getting instant access to this fascinating dimension of living magic and most importantly to this highly effective mind power multilateral expertise. Emerging across all the information available,the artist's determination and traditional straightforwardness seem to be once again tough enough to track the whole of this advanced tutorials,leaving us to absolutely expect the upcoming high-impact all this wisdom structure and mastery are going to have in his private life,art performance,lifestyle and most importantly in his public projection,as the paradigmatic entrepreneur artist of our times and obviously as the new generation great communicator. Getting ready to indeed operate a daring new artistic enterprise and worldwide venture,Pessoa inevitably assumes a great deal of accountability for the inherent risks,setbacks,stand bys,ins and outs and general obstacles,definitely a scary process ( not for all ) where getting accurate valuable advice and cutting edge information never seems to be enough in the new start-up stage of his current and coming soon king-sized challenges where sharing his responsibilities and vision with his collaborators international team definitely requires a proficiently advanced How- To immediate decision making skills,where his mind tools productive effectiveness will be unquestionably on Trial by Fire! Taking a good look at the tools,modus operandi,and processes Antonio Pessoa continually uses in his rich and colorful day to day life,we helplessly can't resist to get a glimpse into the artist's life latest news,always expecting the next episode to be far more striking and exciting than the ones before. People from all over Europe and United States write to me telling us they indeed do spend a lot of time researching and reading about the artist's methods,deliciously grabbed and entertained by how he systematically manages to get off to a new blazing start just about to a always unexpected new series of brilliant and satisfying conclusions,as one of the art scene world's most unique,amusing and amazing on-going profiles. The extent to which Pessoa exhibits various and interesting characteristics,provides us with sufficient visibility to fully understand his increasing degree of positive exposure to public notice.Fact. Therefore,extinguishing the fire with a calm spell seems to be right now the hardest accomplishment for anyone within the artist's friends circle. Besides,anyway,nobody seems to have no reasons to actually wish that to happen. Slowly but surely turned on by the tempting idea of living feeling today everything is possible,even his wildest dreams,Antonio Pessoa uses his mind's full potential to wish things to happen and surprise,surprise,fact is that then they actually do. However there is after all the secret,the special trick,which enables the artist to deal with challenges he has to face,by astonishingly quadrupling his vision,knowledge,meeting the goal achievement proper balance with his traditional rock-solid determination to make the seemingly impossible a now-reality. Sensitive,selective,fast and accurate,the artist faithfully keeps on following a truly effective method,which unfortunately for most of us,strange as it seems,remains a one million dollars secret! No doubt Pessoa must have enough good reasons to have entitled this painting "Trial by Fire ".Pure abstract art,caughts the eye of the viewer,regardless the message or meaning,however as we all become more and more familiarized with the content-intent of this particular artwork,which is after all,and most important of all,the mirror reflecting the powerful heart and soul of a life veteran sort of artist,once again stubbornly committed to change his mind's orientation,a current challenging issue which has clearly shown itself to be by now a striking method both proficient and highly effective in all areas and in every step of the way. Banking on proving to himself and to the world that beyond the boundaries of conscious self- evaluation,of conscious global awareness,there is an endless wealthy empire of possibilities,we so very often can't make out,lost through our own mismanagement of our own inner potential scenario,Antonio Pessoa records in " Trial by Fire " the expanded universe available to anyone willing to spend a reasonable full time research aiming at reaching a level of global expertise,the fuel of a dynamic and happy life,wealthy innovations and new ways of viewing the world through self-growth,after all the magical counselling therapy providing a lucid,original and effective practical guide to how accomplish our most cinematic dreams taking off from the deep valuable resources of our inner mind. "Trial by Fire" definitely doesn't pretend to suggest doubt about this high-efficiency method,however clearly points out that the golden results basically depend on absolute true passion,daily focusing,solid motivation,a patient step by step mind fitness plan,an increasing magnitude unbreakable perspective and a whole lot of multiple positive intentions,the ultimate goal setting made easy. Pessoa couldn't have chosen a better title for this mountains beyond mountains of research and observation endless miles and miles and miles to cross,climb and crawl,indeed a Trial by Fire,engaged in fierce emotional tournaments and daring journeys bound to where the glowing pot is placed,solving ancient mysteries hidden in plain sight from our perception,knowledge and wise mindset awareness. This painting once again rises an impressive new set of questions. First and most important of all,is Antonio Pessoa going to pass this stiff examination entitled "Trial by Fire"? We all believe he will,despite also acknowledging that arriving safe and sound at the shining palace at the end of the long and winding road,it's not going to be a twelve minute extravaganza of boiling fun. A mission impossible or a successful accomplishment? I would rather emphasize a mission accomplishment as an already now-reality fact,running like a well-oiled machine. However the big challenge is out there,waiting for an artist willing to be playing with fire,by the book and by the rules,a free trial available for anyone,nevertheless a tough enough match only the brave players can undertake when it comes the time to jump into the titanic overwhelming arena of the Trial by Fire! 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.

AMSTERDAM

2008-02-15T08:03:00.002-08:00

2008-02-15T08:03:00.001-08:00

Antonio Pessoa

AMSTERDAM !

ANTONIO PESSOA - AMSTERDAM Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - the New Wave - Antonio Pessoa visits Amsterdam for the first time at the age of fifteen.The first impact if not love at first sight,at least shakes him up just enough for the enthusiastic youngster start making serious plans relating this city to his near coming futur.And as it couldn't be otherwise Antonio Pessoa settles down in Amsterdam two years later at the age of seventeen. Making a decent living out of playing the piano in pubs and clubs either solo or with a band,the young man can actually afford enough finantial stableness in order to feel at home,tasting the delicious flavour of freedom,discovery,easy going life but most important of all his first serious contact with fine arts apprenticeship. For almost eight years Amsterdam is going to be his headquarters,his home sweet home,his divine inspiration,his soul city,his social circle,his love and his friends,in this city that never sleeps the youngster becomes a young man and the young man becomes an adult.Here,Antonio Pessoa finds himself,his inner intimate nature,Amsterdam is going to have a powerful influence in his imagination and an absolute omnipresence in his character and personality,self-development,heart and soul , for the years to come. Amsterdam in the early 80's is one of the most exciting and lively cities in the world,an interesting and amazing super cosmopolitan gathering place where music flows from every window,from every bar and pub,where Art seems to be everywhere,a multiracial society sharing the same universe onward,the same New Wave atmosphere,where the 60's,70's and 80's cultures and generations live on coexisting peacefully enjoying mutual cognition,the proper place for a young artist to grow,to let his mind run free,learn,gaining perception enhancement and therefore become the solid emotions generator which after all makes the difference between a regular bystander and an artist all the way. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - the Melkweg - In less than two years Antonio Pessoa becomes quite popular in Amsterdam,particularly among the artists,painters,musicians and actors. By the time he was nineteen he is actually doing a whole lot of things at the same time.Participating in several major Art workshops,doing support acts for american blues and jazz bands and even playing as an actor with an english theater company on tour all over central Europe. Nevertheless there was a huge place right at the heart of Amsterdam,by Leidse-plein called the Melkweg,where the artist spends most of his time.The Melkweg was divided in many sections all of them vocationally directed either to arts,cinema,music,poetry,live music,dancing,theater,you name it. Antonio Pessoa establishes contact with very talented people such as Brian Ferry,Jango Edwards,Peter Ercolano,Allen Ginsberg,Brian Eno,Frank Zappa,just to mention a few. Obviously all these acquaintances are on short terms going to have a strong and decisive role and effect upon his still half-procrastinanting talent and imagination. Nevertheless,more or less procrastinating,fact is Antonio Pessoa was already feeding his mind and soul with the best references and influences one could possible get,let alone the fact that the young artist was by then already clearly showing that definitely he wasn't going to be just another Mr.Smith of the audience. At the Melkweg,Leidse- plein,Amsterdam,Nederland,the teenage Antonio Pessoa was indeed absorbing the arousing fantasy side of life,the neo-surrealist side of reality,the twilight zone where facts turn into artfacts as by magic.The Melkweg was the Amsterdam's cathedral of the young ones celebrating arts,love,music,cinema,theater and most important of all celebrating life. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - the Holland's affair - The nineteen years old Antonio Pessoa happily living and enjoying his dearly loved Amsterdam is still far from becoming a full time professional artist. Divided between music,theater,fine arts and traveling throughout Europe and northern Africa,he doesn't feel the urgency or a particular motivation to actually compell him by concentrating all his energy into one single specific activity. Nine years still have to go by before Antonio Pessoa indeed definitely makes up his mind to drop his eclectic interests and passions in order to fully embrace fine arts on a daily and professional basis for good. I suppose what was at stake by then was indeed the traditional process of learning,living,purchasing all the possibilities available,facing the exciting challenge of the growing up metamorphosis. Despite his countless visits to London,Brussels,Paris and Berlin,Antonio Pessoa found in Amsterdam a city soul mate - so to speak - the perfect playground to support his self-sufficiency,to practice his creative self- hypnosis and to solidify his demanding self- assurance. I would say that maybe,just maybe,but anyway very probably Antonio Pessoa would have kept on living in Netherlands for the rest of his life if some punctual and eventual unexpected circumstancial ways of the fate hadn't actually at a certain period of his mid-twenties dragged him back to western southern Europe once again. Nevertheless the importance of Amsterdam and Holland in Antonio Pessoa's life and work,personality,vision and culture is absolutely undeniable and entirely interactive. The Holland's affair seems to me to be a rather more accurate perspective on the whole,as indeed not just Amsterdam but Dutch culture and the Dutch way of life have strongly influenced the artist in such a dynamic way to the point that Antonio Pessoa nowadays could be more or less defined as the true Flying Dutchman abroad. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - five years outlook - Antonio Pessoa starts painting his first oils on canvas in Vondelstraat,then in his studio of Prinsengracht,then on and on one year later in his studio in Haarlemstraat and again three years after in his studio off Leidse-plein in Weteringstraat. Many things , many changes in the meantime during these five years happening - as a traffic jam - in the young artist's life. So intense and meteoritical were these five years in a row of going through so many and such new and unexpected experiences that it's totally accurate to establish and state that by now we are talking about a different Antonio Pessoa,a young man still rather dizzy evaluating his emotions rush and flows and trying to make out a global understanding of life's strange and fascinating metaphysical forces. Times were changing,the artist was changed and life was showing clear signs of further changes yet to come.Amsterdam was still there as years before,only that this time now the perspective while looking at the city's life wasn't providing the same feedback as years before.Not better not worse.Just a different feedback in the very same proportion as the artist wasn't any longer a teenager,Antonio Pessoa was now a mid-twenties young man still so very much in love with Amsterdam and still so very much in love with life. Nevertheless euphoria had turned into sober elation,lust had turned into love and sharing perception,apprenticeship had turned into art source technical command and pain and self-pity had turned into acceptance and tolerance. By this time without even knowing it yet,Antonio Pessoa is just about to move over to Groningen where he is going to live for almost one year.And as far as Holland is concerned the Groningen experience is also going to be the beginning of the end. However,Amsterdam-Nederland is going to remain in Antonio Pessoa's heart ,soul and work for all the years to come... Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Gerard Meerman , the Patron - One Summer night at the Black and White cafe,Leidse-plein,Antonio Pessoa acquaints with Gerard Meerman,a wealthy young german art lover who from that night on becomes his best friend in town and within a few weeks,surprise surprise,the artist's Patron.He gives him shelter by providing him a nice studio at his house in Vondelstraat. It's possible that at a certain point of their relationship,there might have been some sort of silent homosexual platonic feelings going on,but most important of all is that Gerard Meerman indeed took good care of Antonio Pessoa's personal life,needs and whims,giving him the stimulus and motivation to start painting on a regular basis as well as enough freedom so the artist could,shall we say,fullfill his appetite for the night life merry-go-round ,naturally and actually very acceptable at his age and specifically considering his ever restless nature. This close relationship between the two young men is going to last for two intensive years.Gerard exchanges all this luxurious protection for all Antonio Pessoa's art production. It seems to be an accurate and certain assumption that indeed there might have been a whole lot more than just friendship between the two of them which could somehow explain the out of proportion situation at stake.Antonio Pessoa was by then visiting Paris and London on a weekly basis,booking in rather expensive hotels and living a Dolce Vita apparently far beyond his possibilities. In my humble estimation I would say that Antonio Pessoa during these two years with Gerard Meerman might have produced more than two hundred oils on canvas. Now the question is, What are the whereabouts of all those art pieces? The search for the answers lead us straight away to speculative and inquisitive supposition investments and at the end of the road just a sign which reads "Loose Ends". Nevertheless one thing is for sure,Gerard Meerman definitely gave Antonio Pessoa the right push,at the right place,at the right time. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Stand by - For some strange and obscure reason Gerard Meerman and Antonio Pessoa at a certain stage after two years of partnership break up and their affairs are over for good.The young german sells his house and gets back to Germany while Antonio Pessoa with a couple of friends are on their way down south to Morocco driving a Beetle Volkswagen and listening to progressive rock. Just one more adventure in the artist's life,one more time looking for the One Thousand and One Nights magic or maybe,now that I come to think of it,looking for himself once again. One way or another this is going to be the second and the last time Antonio Pessoa visits northern Africa.Driving from Paris to Algeciras then from Tangier to Casablanca the three friends not yet fully satisfied decide to go further south to a fantastic charming little town on the coast called Essaouira.This place happens to be also one of the favourite retreats of people such as Keith Richards and Jimmy Hendrix years before. Eight weeks go by under the golden hot sun of the northern african zone till the three voyagers get back to central Europe in the same white Beetle but with a tan on their faces and some fullfilling magic in their hearts. Antonio Pessoa arrives in Amsterdam,snow white,lively as always but cold and now he faces the crossroads of what his futur is going to be like and where it's going to lead him to. He's back to his old friends,back to the Melkweg,once again back to music and theater,back to a long lasting feeling of lost and emptiness despite his spontaneous communication combustion,Antonio Pessoa is well aware there's definitely something missing in his emotional universe,something or someone,anyway life goes on and a strong heart keeps on pumping and providing enough energy to let not enthusiasm and excitement go down the drain just like that. He lives now with a dutch friend in Damrak,he writes a song called "Waterlooplein Market Blues" and he rehearsals with a dutch band in a huge basement within the bridge structure crossing the Vondelpark. It's Christmas time,the One Thousand and One Nights magic is gone and Antonio Pessoa lives the blues and feels rather lost in the city he loves the most. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Hieronymus Bosch - During winter,spring,summer and fall,Antonio Pessoa leads a very intensive life.His eventual love affairs are short-lived passions,lust based infatuations with young women he meets here and there although nothing really serious to be worth specific comments about it. With Gerard Meerman,the artist had been basically painting his own interpretations of the old Impressionism. Most of his artworks during that period were divided between Amsterdam cityscapes,portraits,peculiar still lives and nudes. Antonio Pessoa those days is studying Rembrant,Van Gogh,Renoir and Claude Monet. As a matter of fact it's going to take years before Antonio Pessoa becomes plenty satisfied with his Universal Art History knowledge and command in order to embrace contemporary Art solidly and cognitively skillfull and technically self-assured as indeed to enter the contemporary dimension and challenge provided with the inter- related absolute vision,concept and whole perspective of past,present and futur. His acquaintance with Nick and Darius,two artists from New York city living in Amsterdam,is going to take him to have his first worth mention definite important contact with american Expressionism and with twentieth century's Surrealism at the same time.He discovers the interesting possibilities of Salvador Dali,Yves Tanguy,Rene Magritte,Max Ernst and Man Ray and in the process of so doing Antonio Pessoa is once again taking a ride in the Time machine back to 15th century and Jheronimus van Aken,alias,Hieronymus Bosch. From then on Antonio Pessoa adopts and defends what from his deep belief becomes the undeniable theory that indeed after all Surrealism was born in Nederland with the skills and by the hands of a Great Master genius named Hieronymus Bosch. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - painting Live and feeling Alive - While Antonio Pessoa goes on wandering between Impressionism and Surrealism,music and theater,Art workshops and night life,Amsterdam's winter turns into springtime till Summer comes at last bringing new colors,new friends and new ideas into the young man's universe. Once again the artist visits Paris on a weekly basis,spending hours and hours in a row either in the Louvre Museum or at the Pompidou Center.He loves the amazing contrast between Amsterdam and Paris.Somehow it makes him feel rather complete jumping from one city to the other.He loves to live in Amsterdam and simply adores the Latin touch and smell of the french capital city. The Vondel Park goes on being one of his favourite Summer hangouts where he draws,paints and does sketches,meets new friends and furthermore grabs his thoughts together. He feels free and high in the city and in the country he loves the most.He plans to stay in Holland for the rest of his life,still far from knowing or even suspecting that fate had indeed reserved him a totally different direction. He loves to paint Live at the Vondel Park,enjoying people's reactions and enjoying the summertime weather as well. Every week he steps out of the train from Paris at the Amsterdam's woderful Central Station.He's back home fullfilled with the parisian poetry and anxious for the dutch way of living.Day after day,night after night,Antonio Pessoa quickly recovers from his winter's depression as if a rescue squad of new inspiration arrived promptly,leaving the pain behind and bringing him forward apparently to a bright and stainless optimistic futur. He's making a good living with portraits and painting Live with the hoped-for illusion that this Summer is going to last forever,with the hoped-for illusion that this feeling of hapiness and freedom will drag him throughout the years and through life with no more interferences of doubt and pain,blues,darkness and rain. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - a Last Goodbye Adventure - By the end of September,Antonio Pessoa has enough money to live comfortably for at least one year.The Summer is gone and gone is the golden sun and the lively afternoons in the Vondel Park.The artist goes back to the rainproof Melweg.He meets a french girl,Dominique and they hold on to eachother as two dreamers looking for a mutual dream.And that's what they're going to get. They pack their things and take the first train to Paris without a single care in the world,without even knowing where they're bound for.They do it on the train,they do it everywhere,they know they both need a break,a sweet desperate solution for the Summer's end. So from Paris to Venice and from Venice to the greek islands,sharing a love they both know it doesn't going to last forever,aware that the artist belongs to Nederland and Dominique is an actress about to move overseas right to Manhattan,New York city.Nevertheless in the meantime they stick to eachother making the most of it,enjoying the moment as well as the last goodbye. This is the first time in Greece for Antonio Pessoa but it's not going to be the last one.If this time now the greek islands are going to be Paradise,the next time things are going to turn out to be rather different. For two and a half months the two drifters indeed enjoy the last goodbye,back to Venice,from there to Barcelona,back to Paris and once again down south this time to Monaco. Antonio Pessoa is running out of money and Dominique is running out of passion.They already knew this was a kind of a last goodbye adventure from the very beginning but even so they also knew all goodbyes when the time comes seem to be the hardest moment. They kissed for the last time at La Gare du Nord in Paris both aware they hardly were going to stumble upon eachother ever again. That night Antonio Pessoa , once again on his own,took the train back to where he did belong. Amsterdam ! Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - back in business - Peter's place counts once again with the restless presence of this Jack of all trades sort of artist,fact which Peter starts seeing as a sign of an helpless immature bahavior and unformed character.This unripe fruit named Antonio Pessoa in Peter's perspective is into too many activities at once and by all means procrastinating the development of his best natural vocation and talent.Fine Arts. Living under pressure by the continuous Peter's friendly proposals that he should once and for all concentrate and commit himself and all his vital energy to Art and nothing else but Art,Antonio Pessoa once again gets back down to earth and to work starting by getting up in the morning and paint most of day therefore giving up night life and his inspiring hangout.The Melkweg. This constancy goes on for roughly six months.The artist brings his latest traveling memories onto the canvas,enjoying every single moment of it.In the meantime Peter van Dijk takes care of promoting and selling his artworks the best way he knows how,using his influences among the art loving intellectual friends of his wide social circle. Antonio Pessoa is once again more than glad to be systematically provided with this regular financial gain,an income they split fifty-fifty between the two of them,for Peter besides having assumed to bear the responsibility of being his agent,go-between,public relations and merchant is also taking good care of the productive artist now yielding artwork positive results,by hiring an indonesian house keeper who takes care of the laundry,hot meals and everything else related with proper comfort and home studio warmth in order to keep the artist fully concentrated in his trade's action. Peter van Dijk is now starting to set serious ambitious plans for Antonio Pessoa's futur,obviously due to the undeniable success he was having with the artist's oils sales. That could indeed have been the early big break for Antonio Pessoa's career. However,once again the oddish fate was one more time dancing together hand in hand with the whimsical young artist.And this time now Mr.Fate was indeed about to strike real hard,anyway,just for the record. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Dr. Gold Foot and the Bikini Machine - If Antonio Pessoa was by then an enthusiastic Art museums regular,the same was not applicable as far as Art galleries are concerned.Crazy and strange as it seems the artist wasn't bound for becoming by then or ever after an Art galleries worm.The reason why still remains unanswered making way to random conjecturing,more or less accurate speculation which may lead us to going about the possible inner reasons for this peculiar lack of interest. As a matter of fact Antonio Pessoa throughout the years is going to maintain a solid and unmovable posture about this issue which spontaneously is going to turn out to be his very own style of actually leading his career by working with independent art dealers,public relations mediators or even friends acting as links between parties. Peter van Dijk in Amsterdam back in the 80's was very probably becoming already fully aware of this pretty obvious reluctance in Antonio Pessoa to commit himself to the bureaucratic rules,long waiting energy spending scheduling,pseudoelitist harsh evaluations sessions,a ghastly universe he didn't feel the need to share let alone the urgency to belong to. Eventually years later Antonio Pessoa becomes a full-time professional wealthy artist without even going through a bit of struggle in the process.More likely as gradual changes through a series of pleasurable states. So that Summer's July morning when Peter takes him for an interview with a gallery director who kept Antonio Pessoa "patiently" waiting for more than one hour,Peter suddenly finds himself alone in the room as the artist opens the door,steps out on the street and fades away. That very same day life for the two friends is about to change drastically as drastically can be. That evening Antonio Pessoa is off to the United Kingdom with two english friends and an english lady singer. They were going to be Dr.Gold Foot and the Bikini Machine bound for a six months Pub gig playing in London town. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - London town - Antonio Pessoa and the three friends are now living in a three storey house in Askew Road,Hammersmith, London. London is something else,a different way of living,another concept of distance and a much more sober night life style than in the lively stimulating Amsterdam.So therefore from the very first day he misses Holland fully aware that his London stay on is just going to be a temporary hookup. During the daytime Antonio Pessoa paints and most of the evenings playing with Dr.Gold Foot and the Bikini Machine everywhere in London,old songs from the 50's and 60's with sexy Tracy in her peculiar Andrew Sisters style at the microphone. Meantime every week the artist can be found hurrying up along the Queens Walk and entering the Tate Modern,his ever favourite spare time hangout in downtown London. Also the National Gallery,Somerset House and the Victoria & Albert Museum are going to be number one priorities in his compulsory agendum. During these six months in London Antonio Pessoa comes to Amsterdam on a regular basis,taking with him his latest paintings and therefore passing them over to Peter's jurisdictional operating procedures.His dutch best friend can't help looking at him with mild reproachful eyes,expressing the silent reproof he feels about the way the artist is definitely postponing his success let alone the possibility of actually allowing his career going down the drain. The Askew Road's "pagoda" was a swarming cheerful party that never sleeps,the right place for the young ones to celebrate life,good- time,music,food and lust. However it was about Christmastime , time to turn off the loud amplifiers and tune in with the what to do next,when and where. That was no big headache,no complex existential equations required for the answer had always been laying in at the bottomland of the artist's heart. Amsterdam! Only fifteen years after was Antonio Pessoa going to step on the streets of London,England,U.K.,again. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - ambivalent crossroads - Peter van Dijk is becoming sadly aware that his series of actions advancing Antonio Pessoa's career toward a position of stability and reputation is turning out to be a frustrating campaign. On the other hand Antonio Pessoa feels to a moderately sufficient extent satisfied with his multiplex talent which is withholding the ultimate commitment of binding himself to a single course of action,in this particular instance,fine arts. No big deal,now that we look back at the past from the present times comfortable standpoint.However it was indeed going to take ten years before Antonio Pessoa gives up everythig else in order to fully commit himself entirely to a professional only fine arts assured mature attitude and performance. However it was definitely an awesome life perspective back then for an artist in the fascinating process of discovering the world,sexuality,art and himself. On the other hand Peter was growing more and more standoffish just by helplessly watching his marketing researches and time investments turn out to be a no way out alleyway,being money not at all his main priority or basic motivation,for fact is it was genuine his emotional involvement in Antonio Pessoa's artwork and furthermore specifically personal, in his upraised vital energy which inevitably was indeed the generator of such an amazing compulsive creative production capacity. As a matter of fact this very same inherent working potential energy,ten years later is one of the main qualities which markedly is going to pinpoint his ever growing reputation as a mass production high quality sort of artist. Anyway,anyhow,back to those days , the tense atmosphere between the two friends wasn't actually giving signs of getting any better,to say the least.If Peter was stubborn enough about his concept of how the artist's career should be managed and handled,Antonio Pessoa was tenaciously unwilling to exchange freedom and real time spontaneousness enjoying the moment without constraint, for a methodical orderliness based working discipline. And as there's always an end for everything in life,well,well,well, that sure actually did it. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - on the road again - That cold winter Antonio Pessoa once again gets a band together with three dutch musicians.The Horny Angel.Besides this band he plays everywhere in Holland with his english friend Martin Camp,just for the fun and obviously some little extra income couldn't do them no harm.From Amsterdam they drove with their instruments on the backseat to places like Delft,Hilversum,Tilburg,Arnhem,Den Haag,Haarlem,Alkmaar,Assen,Leeuwarden...and Groningen. By then,Antonio Pessoa was still far from knowing that Groningen was going to live and have a very special place in his memory forever after. Still living at Peter's place,Antonio had no longer any spare time for Art.And Peter van Dijk was running out of patience despite his good- natured tolerance and his profound admiration toward the artist. Antonio Pessoa meets Mona at Martin's place.Mona is Dutch,she's cheerful,sexy and bright and they stick together for a couple of weeks.Nothing serious thou,just easy going love and good-time rock n' roll.The young ones celebrating life. The artist introduces Mona to Peter and,surprise,surprise,it's hate at first sight.The situation was getting rather complex,apparently civilized,but just on the surface for inherently about to get out of control. That Monday everyone decides to take the whole week off.Martin splits to Manchester,U.K.,Mona goes to Rotterdam to be with her family and Antonio Pessoa takes off bound for Paris once again.Peter van Dijk stays in Amsterdam. One week later Antonio steps off the train at the Amsterdam's Central Station and takes a sit at the charming restaurant upstairs for a getting high-take your time continental breakfast. One hour goes by and the artist pacifistically goes-as-he-pleases through the drawings and sketches he had done that relaxing week in Montmartre. A blond young woman about his age sitting at the front table smile on her beautiful face gives him the signal to join him.And join him she did.She is crazy about Art,she declares,back home from London,the dutch girl tells him she's on her way to her hometown.Groningen. Two in the afternoon,she already has his adress,three in the afternoon they both feel this special something,this unspoken desire to see eachother again. They kiss goodbye,Antonio Pessoa far from knowing that his whole life was just about to turn upside down. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - the fine arts swindle - Peter van Dijk these days was watching Antonio Pessoa coming in and going out obviously enthusiastic about everything but Fine Arts. His dutch friend besides not being at all able to understand,let alone digest his behaviour, definitely wasn't accepting the arrogant indolance of someone so talented for arts and yet so immaturely driven by primitive-primary spontaneous impulsions and childish ephemeral infatuations. A few times he actually tryed to talk him back down to reason going to considerable trouble by ensure him observance of rules,mainly just with the particular purpose to make the artist admit once and for all he was indeed about to cross the line of the reasonable and about to jump over the edge. There were twenty oils on canvas hanging on the walls,like ghost spectrums of the past,dusty,silent and sullen,menacing visions brooding over his head all day long. Antonio Pessoa's supernatural powers were by now a dead legend,no more oil colorful charming incantations by the hands of a talented early rising hard working artist,the magical spell was broken and the illusory feats were now seen as an obnoxious swindle illustration. Face-saving was definitely out of question,now that the compromise was adulterated,going on keeping maintaining dignity or prestige would be a useless and pointless fake. The valuable ingredients of their relationship were being corrupted by the city itself.The lively Amsterdam's night life and its impure substances were taking his artist away from the productive dimension where he indeed did belong. Antonio Pessoa's recklessness was leading him along a very winding road and all Peter could possibly do right now was sit quietly and call up memories of the artist's golden days. His way of thinking was no longer reconcilable with the talented young man's perfunctory performance now. The recapitulation of the past was rather painful while the blind rebel one wasn't giving any signs of willing to even consider the lost at stake. It was a sad situation getting more and more absurd and it looked as if there was no way they could talk it over anymore. Those were the last days of Peter and Antonio Pessoa together,as Art lovers,as partners,as friends. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - lightning and thunder - Antonio Pessoa in his very early twenties is an outstanding guitar player,he sits at the piano for three hours in a row in a solo concert while people cheerfully gather around and he is indeed an amazing singer as well. That's why the "dilemma" is going to persist remaining for one decade yet before he finally stakes on the outcome of fine arts. He loves Amsterdam,he loves his freedom and he is enjoying being cheerful,loved and alive taking things as they come and celebrating life all the time. He believes he's living the time of his life with God by his side,the world at his feet and with the universe as his guide. He acquaints with Frank Zappa at the Rotterdam Ahoy. Antonio Pessoa invites him to rehearse at his father's farm in southern Portugal and the american musician invites him to L.A. Nevertheless they are not going to stumble eachother ever again because life is just about to pay Antonio Pessoa one of those tricks one is never supposed to forget. Surprise,surprise,Peter that evening can't hold it back any longer and surprise,surprise, he indeed let's it all out in the open. What was said in that house that night between the two of them it was something they both knew they had it coming.The heat is high and in the midst of the flames and smoke of the burning hearts,the combustion of inflammable feelings and aflame emotions words do come easy and harshly with the sudden lightning of thunder. So in that winter rainy night a raging Peter throws him out,the artist is already packing and sweating,the homeostatic process of when you don't know where to go,what do to,neither who to talk with. However what happened next,maybe it was a God's gift,maybe a Fate's yielding or even maybe one of those Devil's expensive presents. The door bell rings as the artist goes down the stairs on his last way out. The beautiful blond girl from Groningen is standing right over there,with a bright smile on her face saying Hello,holding the umbrella under the rain. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Yvonne Smit - Once upon a time they took a taxi to Mona's place.She was still in Rotterdam but one of the house keys was in Antonio Pessoa's pockets. They had left the baggage at the Central Station and had spent all night on a bar-hop- let's get to know eachother kind of ritual till the first morning light brought them back down to the so called real world. So by the time they got off the taxi in front of Mona's place they were already quite familiar with the taste and flavour of eachother's lips.Their hearts were pumping fast and their senses were running wild. They remained in bed for forty eight hours in a row while the home refrigerator's content was being systematically and quickly reduced till very little of it was left,to say the least. If it was a well verified fact that Antonio Pessoa hadn't specially been leading a life of the abstentious monk kind,it was also a fact that all his eventual multiple casual infatuations hadn't been indeed nothing more than just that.Up to now. The radio was on,the light was dim,the bodies were sticky as in the steamy tropics,moist with that undried perspiration of the appetites an passions of fleshly desire. The radio was on and by then,music the only sensual pleasure without vice. Over and over again they went through the sulfurous atmosphere preceding the orgasmic thunderstorm,resting their souls for short whiles in a daydreaming suspended sleep,gaining consciousness of eachothers heart beats,unspoken feelings,unsounded telepathy,that striking communication zone where no sensory perceptions are required,gaining consciousness of eachothers smells now an exciting intermixture of fluids slowly floating downstream on and along their bodies. The radio was on,the light was dim,the perfect stage for two of a kind souls to be sharing an everlasting procrastinating extravaganza as the hard rain kept on falling while in that cloudy vapor condensed atmosphere they stuck closer and closer with eachother definitely expecting some more and still much more flooding. The radio was on and the light was dim,once upon a time in Amsterdam,Nederland. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - a fair trial - Nevertheless,good things don't last forever,for when Mona got back from Rotterdam,the situation wasn't so funny anymore and the throwing out process went on and on for nearly twenty-four hours with all the required protocol either to give it the proper civilized appearance plus all the due diplomatic procedures or maybe as an excellent opportunity not only to break a little bit the boring routine but eventually to provide the throwing out ceremony with a little spicy drama although as I said,very civilized and very,very diplomatic. They did it the dutch way. For Yvonne Smit and Antonio Pessoa,the relocation program just about to take place came as a reluctant obligation they were under once again and therefore the social force binding them to find a new settlement,went on for hours and hours with Martin Camp now , wich presence had been urgently claimed,plus one of Mona's female friends who actually played the role of the one- citizen-committee jury.Tea was served and the judgement delivered. The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed everyone,very particularly Yvonne and the artist.The embezzlement at stake although taken lightly - for they were friends after all - was indeed worth having a fair trial court and as the two wrongdoers were respectfully listening to the indictment,more tea was served,cheese,cookies,cherry,marmalade and God knows what else. Antonio Pessoa most of the time during the fair trial,sat silent and quite making the most of the splendid nourishing food displayed on the table,while the Groningen girl seemed to be having the time of her life letting go her most eloquent verbal defence policy dazzling the audience with her expressive ready facile tongue. Nevertheless they all knew what the verdict was going to be.Guilty. So therefore Yvonne Smit and the artist that rainy afternoon were out on the street , happily homeless and helplessly so very much in love. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Prinsengracht - Springtime was already immersing Amsterdam in sunshine,bathing the flowering spring trees,the young lovery couple already living in a glamourous apartment,a third floor love nest,where they together celebrating all the best,more than ever,were throwing eachother promises of an ever lasting romance,like in a trance where they both profoundly believed nobody and nothing could possibly tear them apart. Antonio Pessoa was now in peace,totally convinced he had indeed made it for good.God was by his side after all , and as for the devil the hell with him. He was still playing with Martin Camp,still rehearsing with the Horny Angel and most important of all he had somehow managed to start painting again. Antonio Pessoa was more than ever truly fascinated by the life and work of Hieronymus Bosch.Masterpieces such as The Ship of Fools,The Seven Deadly Sins,Christ Crowned with Thorns,The Temptation of Saint Anthony,Witches and very particularly The Garden of Earthly Desires,were among his favourites. Yvonne Smit shared his interests with the same devotion. They went to see a Salvador Dali's exhibition and from that moment on Antonio Pessoa became more and more convinced that Hieronymus Bosch was indeed the Godfather of all modern surrealism. The cosy apartment in Prinsengracht became their uncorrupted paradise,while their bodies became more and more their main communication tools.Sex was fantastic and being so madly in love to such a degree as indeed it was a fact back in those days,was something which Antonio Pessoa had never felt before to that or to any extent whatsoever,for all that matters. That Springtime in Prinsengracht,their love relationship was reaching the dazzling heights of the vertigo,the whirling sensations of a magical dizzy spell,the pinnacle of all sexual possibilities.So far so good.Reaching the Nirvana through Kama Sutra. What else was an artist supposed to wish? Love,freedom,fullfillment,passion,music,Amsterdam and Art. Yvonne Smit tells him every sigle day,countless times,he is her miracle and that she definitely doesn't want to loose him.Never! Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Vincent Van Gogh - The artist not yet fully satisfied with his knowledgeability of the post-impressionism movement goes once again through Vincent Van Gogh's biography and in the process of so doing actually does a reasonable amount of study researches of the dutch artist paintings.However,taking from his personal perspective Van Gogh's Sunflowers doesn't seem to interest him much,on the other hand The Starry Nights has a magnetic effect on Antonio Pessoa's visual and emotional sensibility. For many years to come Antonio Pessoa goes systematically back and about Vincent Van Gogh's biography,supposedly trying to make out the real source of Van Gogh's eternal punishment on earth,the general stigma which made him live such a short and tragic life till his dramatic suicide. Years later,Antonio Pessoa going through Pablo Picasso's biography,besides discovering the unexpected convergence to his own ideas on how real life and artwork should be walking hand in hand,furthermore finds the personification of optimist as the ultimate antidote for the average depressive emotional stunning self-destructive kamikaze impulses of not only Van Gogh but indeed of so many artists of the twentieth century. Yvonne Smit follows his interests always with her up-to-dateness enthusiasm keeping him company twenty four hours a day and participating the best way she knows how. Antonio Pessoa tells her " I wish I could paint like Van Gogh,but I wouldn't like to live like he did".Yvonne Smit assures him,"Take my word for granted,you won't". Antonio Pessoa and his Van Gogh's obsession is going to be one of his Art History preoccupations which is going to last for quite a long while.He believes Vincent Van Gogh of all the post- impressionists is definitely the only one succeeding a true remarkable sight for art expression despite his sad hypochondriacal nature. The apartment in Prinsengracht is now a home studio,drawings,sketches and watercolors scattered all over the place,as fertilizers over the lawn,translating Antonio Pessoa's insatiable desire to reach the final authority on Art History and very particularly on Vincent Van Gogh's life and work. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - procrastinating - Antonio Pessoa is so happy in his Prinsengracht apartment and so very much in love with Yvonne Smit,between his Great Masters biographies reading,his drawings and watercolors,long strolls across the Vondel Park hand in hand with the woman of his dreams,that as days and weeks go by he begins to forget his music-biz commitments to the point of actually consigning those professional responsibilities to a remote confinement,to say the least. These days they are waking up late afternoon after long pleasurable nights love making,hooked on their wild sex endless experimental sessions,becoming two souls in one body,two bodies in one hallucinating overwhelming ecstasy,becoming more and more a compact uncontrolled delirious frantic mad whirl of pleasure,a high-voltage fleshly action togetherness. So therefore it is in this stage of delicious demented excess that Antonio Pessoa enters a period of exhaled divine procrastinating voluntary exile,enjoying and making the most,and beyond the most,of this luxurious epicurean banquet,the magnificent gratification of the senses,all night long in a love's nest in Prinsengracht with a wide panoramic window overlooking at the canal. Yvonne Smit,the ingenious "innocent bystander" was dragging him to the foxhole,the twilight zone,the so called trap where once you get in you soon going to learn how hard and painful is the process of getting out. So by the time the dutch musicians of the Horny Angel and Martin Camp started complaining,the artist and his muse were already to far away flying high up in the sky to even bother to come back down to earth,at least to respectfully give them a fair enough explanation. The awkward situation was created and it seemed there was no way back.From then on the dice are going to roll as never before,from then on fate is going to send Antonio Pessoa a "it's no good idea to be messing around with me" message and sure thing he is going to keep it in his mind,heart and soul for the rest of his life. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - out of the Garden of Earthly Desires - Just as in with the domino effect,the procrastinating ritual didn't have to wait too long before the unexpected inevitable consequences started to react and hit real hard playing his evil cards on the undercover of pressure.If Antonio Pessoa was caught by surprise it was crazy as it seems indeed,for he should have known all the way he had it coming,sooner or later,in fact just a matter of time - Yvonne Smit was indeed the first to stand still,tension all over her system,before the announcement of harsh reality once again promulgating a hard rain was about to fall.She was indeed the first to get up and out of the procrastinating after midnight idleness,the first to actually set up the situation table and the one who had enough guts - so to speak - to set boundaries as far as Antonio Pessoa's social and professional alienation was concerned. The Horny Angel's dutch musicians weren't counting on Antonio Pessoa anymore,as a matter of fact they were actually at the dangerous point of rupture,their minds basically made up for a definite break up in relations. As for Martin Camp,he was digesting the situation the british way.Antonio Pessoa pops by,Martin welcomes him at the entrance door with a wide open polite english smile,tea is relaxing served as they pleasantly talk about the weather.However they know eachother to well by then so as Antonio looks up into his eyes he sees and feels the unmistakable sullen resentful glistening glitter.While Martin serves them more tea with a shred of milk the tension is in the air and it weights a ton. Anyway,despite the love she feels for the artist,Yvonne Smit is once again the first red light to stop the procrastinating traffic and therefore to admit the oppressive feeling from the heavy force making the most to bow them down by the weight of responsibility. It's time to go to bed,this time just for sleeping,wake up in the morning for a cold shower,breakfast and a long long walk along the canal streets to talk things over. By the end of the day they both had to admit they had jumped off a cliff for a long long fall over to the Garden of Earthly Desires. They both admit they are helplessly hooked on eachother,by the end of the day they both admit it's just about time for a short holiday in northern Nederland. Groningen! Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Groningen - Yvonne Smit and the artist make love in the train's toilet on their way to Groningen.The hell with it,they are young lovers crazy about eachother.Making the most of every single moment and savoring the rules breaking,laughing at the world and taking the risk of the social status suicide kind. Yvonne Smit isn't by all means concerned about the futur and Antonio Pessoa has the ever-present supporting structure of his multiple talents,skills,trades command,his easy going communicative nature plus a wealthy family ready to eventually provide him with a financial and emotional rescue right on the spot,anywhere,anytime. They are going to stay in Groningen for one week. At the Grote Markt they visit the Drie Gezusters cafe which for the artist is love at first sight.He sits at the piano to get the feel of its touch while contemplating the great collection of oil paintings displayed on the walls.He simply adores it! Yvonne Smit's parents give them shelter and a comfortable familiar atmosphere with not to many questions to go with it. The dutch girl introduces him to Marguerite,her best friend who happens to be having a not particularly fullfilling affair with a young millionaire named Rick. Yvonne shows him around Groningen,telling him her childhood adventures,glory days and misfortunes.It's their first time away from Amsterdam and it sure feels like a refreshing change. However by midweek Antonio Pessoa is already missing Amsterdam and very specifically his Prinsengracht bird's nest.He misses the lively stimulating rhythm of the big city,the cosmopolitan ambience,the excitement influence,Melkweg and the Vondel Park. As he sits once again at the Drie Gezusters grand piano he's once again aware of an awkward feeling of lost,a strange unfullfilled vacuum chamber which he isn't quite able to define let alone get rid of it. He looks at Yvonne drinking a cup of coffee and smiling at him,pride and joy in her eyes,knowing he is helplessly in love with her,a sort of ceaseless emotional tumult he had never felt before,whatsoever. And for the first time in his life he was actually yet experiencing a feeling he hadn't come across so far. Fear! Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Love, Passion...or Lust ! - On their way back to Amsterdam , as the train speeds up,they both sit awkwardly quiet,somehow sullen and thoughtful,heedful of the consciousness warnings. Was Amsterdam the right place for them,after all?Were they still in love or just hooked on eachother?Yvonne Smit now begins to be fully aware that the artist was dropping all his interests behind for the lust's sake.Something was very wrong about this affair,the values didn't quite fit anymore,the wonderful whole was now beginning to look like a meteoritical feelings hard rain.Deep down inside,Antonio Pessoa knew he had it all,he could go anywhere,anytime and have a living and a life.However he begins to be aware that a stronger sickening overspread passion was gaining control upon his system.Lust! Mixed up feelings were beginning to quickly grow between the two of them.The only way out was to run away.However for the time being that was definitely out of question. Bewilderment and confusion were playing their cards,a cloudy perception of life was taking over as a gigantic wave of evil passions,awkward ambivalences. Antonio Pessoa this time had been caught off guard,this time mad love,passion...or lust , had been the big blow which caught him napping. The easy going infatuations were a dream of the past and now the artist felt himself like a fly trapped in a spider's web labyrinth. Loosing control upon the situation,the crossroads start feeling like a desperate anxious acute pain,an agony of doubt like the torments of the damned. Nevertheless the flavour of her lips,the warmth of her body,the touch of her hands let alone the climax in the flood tide of the contact supreme,was becoming the dangerous disease of the tearful embrace kind. However,Yvonne Smit was in no better emotional condition than he was. Two young helpless spellbound libidinous victims too arrogant to the point of going on feeding the belief they were two beautiful Gods having holidays on earth. But even well off beliefs need a true genuine and solid as a rock structure to back them up in order to let them go on living and survive! Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - sensitive topics stand - If Antonio Pessoa by then was already a skillfull musician and painter,let alone his extroverted communicative cheerful,charismatic,magnetic personality,a qualities confluence which is going to,shall we say,keep him company throughout his life so far,on the other hand his lack of patience,bad- natured tolerance of delay and very often incompetence,his rather childish chimerical spontaneousness,this restless untamed inner tendency to go through life without constraint...definitely has marked his destiny's course of conduct,either leading him apart from interesting professional opportunities or crazy as it seems preventing him from going through the unpleasurable trouble of face-to-face confrontations with unreasonable awkward situations. Nevertheless,one way or another this short and rather concise portrait of Antonio Pessoa's nature and contradictory aspects,might gives us an idea,explanation or interpretation tools,providing us with more solid ground references in order to better understand the reasons behind the artist's apparently complex reactions and eventually patent nonsense concerning specific situations or even the whole perspective of his adventurous life,a man always eager and willing to undertake or even seeking out new and daring enterprises,however always ready to give it all away at the first signs of distress,psychological damage,or the whole bunch of the general adversity kind. Once established these sensitive topics,we are now a lot closer to an accurate reproduction of the true and real motivations of the artist,the measurement of his personality certainly provides us with a good enough foundation for comparison,reference points or anything which can actually help us to evaluate Antonio Pessoa's maneuvers throughout his life. Furthermore,as far as his artwork is concerned,once again this global understanding of this ubiquitous man,sure comes up as a Must when it comes to the process of evaluating piece after piece of Antonio Pessoa's astronomical high quality artistic production up to now. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Rembrandt van Rijn - Back to Prinsengracht,Antonio Pessoa and Yvonne Smit once again settle down,this time on a delicate Let's See What Happens kind of atmosphere. The artist is postponing the inevitable confrontation with the dutch band,The Horny Angel and with Martin Camp as well.He is absolutely obsessed with Yvonne and real life commitments start to be digested as a persistent annoyance,a haunting obligation which he isn't in the mood to be indebted for anymore. On the beautiful days they spend their afternoons at the Vondel Park,hand in hand,playing with eachother like two teenagers living their first summer romance. Now they are visiting the Rijks Museum at Stadhouderskade on a weekly basis while Antonio Pessoa starts seriously focusing his attention and academic interest in Rembrandt van Rijn.They also pay frequent visits to the Rembrandt House at Jodenbreestraat.Antonio Pessoa becomes profoundly impressed with Rembrandt's etchings and drawings so next thing they knew their apartment of Prinsengracht is stocked with Rembrandt van Rijn's art books plus a countless number of studies and new versions Antonio Pessoa is doing inspired in the dutch Master's oils. Although the young artist is plenty aware that he is bound for the contemporary concept he feels desperately the urgency to do an intensive research concerning the Old Masters,a personal commitment and ritual Antonio Pessoa is going to establish as one of his academic priorities,by then and throughout most of his life till 2002,period when he apparently becomes respectfully satisfied at last.Satisfied with his Art History knowledge let alone all the valuable tutored technical tips and tricks he believes to be absolutely basic and fundamental,the essential tools he religiously believes to be crucial information to the completion of his contemporary art project. Therefore,Rembrandt van Rijn is going to be one of Antonio Pessoa's number one references and one of his favourite adored Masters ever. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - the Horny Angel's assembly - They were all sitting around the table at the huge basement where the Horny Angel had their rehearsal sessions within the Vondel Park's bridge.And sure they were there for no Poker game and by all means no one of them seemed to be holding the highest-ranking hand.The proceedings consisting of the examination of issues looking forward for the final determination of Antonio Pessoa's innocence or guilt was taking place. The defendant side by side with his lover- attorney looks bored,slightly spaced- out,impatiently looking at his wristwatch every five minutes anxiously waiting to get it over with and go home. After a very diplomatic chitchat indeed the jury presented the verdict which was very clear and straight to the point. Antonio Pessoa's latest attitude and behavioral profile was demonstrating no signs of genuine professional commitment whatsoever. Antonio Pessoa's beguiling and short speech showed the "supreme court" his admitted surrendering capitulation meantime Yvonne Smit,the reliable defense attorney standing on behalf of the sued defendant,claims and pledges that all Antonio Pessoa needs is a short break to sleep on it.And that was it.The pledge was signed with a toast of Heineken beer followed by several kisses and handshakes as to acknowledge the agreement. The Horny Angel's short break is going to turn out to be indeed an endless break,for they aren't going to play together anymore,ever again.Whether or not it was a bad decision making,a unfavorable combination of circumstances giving away a golden opportunity,that is something we will never know,although one thing seems to be a quite reasonable assumption.Antonio Pessoa's gulf between himself and the music scene might as well have been the beginning of the gradual increase of his total commitment to fine arts as indeed happened years later. As they left the Vondel Park hand in hand and strangely silent a piece of the past had just been left behind and somehow they were both slightly aware of it.They didn't look back over their shoulders not even once for deep down inside they also both knew it didn't matter much anymore. As a matter of fact they both were already feeling by then that even their love affair,it was a question of time before it had its turn on the down the hill go,the final countdown time slow. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - the american art dealer - One of the reasons why many years later a great amount of Antonio Pessoa's oils,drawings and watercolors were found in private collections in the U.S.A. in places such as New York city,Boston,Washington,DC,Chicago and Indianopolis,was the action role of an american art dealer living in Amsterdam,named Lee Roberts. Antonio Pessoa had met him at the Melkweg's Tea House years before and now they stumbled upon eachother once again this time at a restaurant called Egg Cream just off Dam square. Lee Roberts is a gay colored man,arrogant , with a big glittering smile and a Big Mouth to go with ,if you get my drift... From the very first moment-impact Lee Roberts and Yvonne Smit aren't going to stand eachother,not even a little bit,not then and never ever after.Nevertheless Lee Roberts as far as business was concerned was a straightforward man,serious and fast. He buys all Antonio Pessoa's latest production scattered all over the Prinsengracht apartment,lying strewn all over the floor.The artist is once again back in business and back down to work. Lee Roberts lives in a fancy mansion in Amsterdam North and every two months goes over to New York City for one week or two.Antonio Pessoa asks him no questions,not being at all the curious sort of person,besides his mind body and soul are a togetherness too much too busy with his artwork let alone his increasingly temperamental rebellious Yvonne Smit. Due to the wrong chemistry between the american playboy and the Groningen girl,the artist and the art dealer have their private business meetings in Amsterdam North. Lee Roberts seems to be fascinated with Antonio Pessoa's speed of action and very particularly with his striking creativity. In Lee Roberts opinion the artist has this unique natural inner instinct to give art lovers and art collectors what they want,so therefore the artwork sales pretty soon come to support his theory.Their partnership is based on pooling talent and money,fast and easy,the american way,no special beating about the bush pseudoscientific headaches required,just a plain hitting the big-time two partners association. Antonio Pessoa was back in art production and Lee Roberts producing a real stimulating good profit ! Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - as time goes by - Yvonne looks charming and beautiful with the springtime colors,smiling and delighted by witenessing Antonio's fast improvement as he enthusiastically paints on canvas bizarre unconventional neo-impressionist situations ,most of them with this uniqueness touch and feel about them , romantic,sensual and by all means autobiographic. Yvonne usually sits at the table by the window drinking coffee and watching the artist moving around the easel like a ballet dancer,enjoying every single moment of it.All distress between them is dissolved under the spell of fine arts magic. She could stay with him for the rest of her life,she had told him so many times "baby,I'm crazy about you,you're my miracle,I don't wanna loose you". They were two of a kind,passionate,stubborn,lustful,interactive, sexy,impulsive...and wild!They were too much too young as well,overbearing pride looking and valorously fragile.They were like two children playing with eachother and getting a great kick out of it,disdaining the tricky and depressing consequences,once again in the naive belief that virtue is of more moment than security. Public kissing was for them as natural as good conversation,just like their sex performances anywhere,anytime,in a pub's toilet,in the Park under the bushes, in the darkness of a cinema,savouring the excitement of the danger,the hank panky's thrill,the one they enjoyed the most,the swift release of the sexual forces,the quick rush sensation,the roar of their hearts engines as they indeed went on getting a big bang out of it. They were caught in a trap,they supposedly knew the risk at stake,they instinctively knew it,still they grabbed the temptation's flow,took the bait,bravely stuck with eachother,over the edge,jumping off a cliff straight over to divine madness,a boisterous knockabout winds and waves of fierce lust thunders roaring them their music. At a certain point of the love story they both knew they were on a delicious drawn-out,hooked on a weird mutual bondage but still the show had to go on for they had nothing to loose but their sanity,their sound powers of mind,body and soul. Totally barmy,as time goes by, they are both experiencing the most delirious affair of their lives,the mad whirl of pleasure and the painful madness of love. Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam - Denise and Valerie - Lee Roberts was a smart good-humoured jolly good fellow,an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin,meaning business but also goodtime.He was as gay as gay can be,bound for gay-lesbians bars almost everynight.So therefore after their business pleasurable meetings at his palace in Amsterdam North very often he drags Antonio Pessoa in to another gay bar-hop till morning light.And that particular night the artist was swept up by the events,acquainting with two english sweetheart lesbians from Liverpool and living in Amsterdam , south Herengracht. Valerie and Denise were two lesbian friends living together although nothing at all going on between them,but close friendship. Denise was the most boyish,male-like of the two and Valerie a cheerful kind roly-poly face gentle and sentimental young woman.They loved David Bowie and from that night on they got to love Antonio Pessoa. Lee Roberts had disappeared in the arms of a tall dutch leather dressed bear,Denise,Valerie and Antonio went on and on celebrating life the english way,meaning drinking and drinking,talking and laughing.By seven in the morning Denise and Valerie were holding Antonio Pessoa out on the empty street preventing him from falling stiff drunk down on the sidewalk. They called a taxi and brought him home with them. While they slept all day long,something very wrong was going on over in Prinsengracht.There stands a sleepless woman,smoking cigarette after cigarette with an explosive growing anger building up in her guts,body,mind and soul.Her heart is cold but her feelings are ablaze,lighted up by burning suspicious jealousy,distrustful by some definitely queer goings-on.She looks through the windows glass at the first morning light,shivering inside,replacing the few pink dreams left by a very ghostly nightmare. While Antonio Pessoa is sleeping like a log on the couch of the Herengracht house living room,Yvonne Smit is packing her things,quietly closing the entrance door and taking a taxi bound for the Central Station. From this day onward nothing is going to be quite the same for the artist and his muse.Destiny was once again playing his evil tricky cards and the innocence tree about to loose its roots and ready to disperse the springtime leaves across the fields of resentment,bitterness and emotional chaos.

Art Times

2008-02-15T08:01:00.001-08:00

2008-02-15T08:00:00.001-08:00

Antonio Pessoa

Art Times
Antonio Pessoa Night Gospel NIGHT GOSPEL,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa,2007,might be or turn out to be on a short- term or who knows maybe even on a long-term,a very,very important masterpiece of the artist's whole oeuvre. The fantastic very true special meaning of this painting evokes a nightly calling down the spirits of knowledge and wisdom from the subconscious mind,,from that intelligent,emotional,intuitive power station of plenty awareness,we all have within the hidden depth of our minds,although we just don't make much use of it most of the times or even never,indeed an unforgivable distraction or mistake,for the high price we therefore have to pay for the basical disrespect concerning this endless source of practical and philosophical accurate answers can and actually does make the difference between mediocre living and Life Supreme! Digesting NIGHT GOSPEL and what it actually involves,might turn out to be a great deal more complex and mysterious process than one would primarily assume,taking from the only natural idea that this particular painting is just another output among the large Antonio Pessoa's oeuvre. Not quite so,for all the given evidence and symptoms carefully and clearly point out enough areas where coincidence is not an option anymore,whatsoever,yet the strong probability that the artist is definitely getting seriously committed to a new phase of positive self- control,self-improvement, Mind-Body- lifestyle,attitude-outlook-perception synchronization,seems to be a much more valid,reliable and accurate overall conclusion. As in so many episodes of History,when the ultimate sense of urgency rings the bell and gathers enough will power substances to break through titanic solid cement barriers and immensely powerful faith to move mountains and cross ferocious ocean swells... Antonio Pessoa's NIGHT GOSPEL is bound to deliver a unmatched emotional intelligence,creative intuition optimization and acceleration,not only improving his artistic and living well-being quality but maybe most importantly turning out to become after all the most exclusive luxury personal investment anyone could eventually be desperately looking and hoping for. On the very,very overwhelming whole,NIGHT GOSPEL stands out as a unique masterpiece excelling in resistant symbolism,a basically abstract-oriented art expression representation of the subconscious Mind power phenomenon a pure science-based pursuit of the inner wisdom master secrets. NIGHT GOSPEL comes up as an historic self- hypnosis,psycho dynamic,mighty power of Mind Plus chronicle,generating a striking and exciting fluxus of revelations during sleep.A complete guide to effective thinking,high quality emotional intelligence performance and a successful lifestyle,fulfillment and happiness. After another day in life,another rewarding experience in the hyperconscious sparking reality zone,it's about time to call it a night,time to absorb the cosmic timelessness and enter the kingdom of stress-relieving nothingness. Beautiful in his emptiness the artist experiences the blessed nakedness,the perfect harmony of the vacuum,and after a few short minutes the dominant vocals of the NIGHT GOSPEL start whispering words of wisdom,multilingual,free and confidential,gently blowing the answers to his questions,a true life- transforming vital virtual ritual. Pessoa creates NIGHT GOSPEL in order to, after the great slowly fading out obliviousness,be able to be born again from the multicolored ashes,and in so doing the boomerang effect plays its role again,as the NIGHT GOSPEL celebration indigenous Masters of Universal Awareness come together for their own Creator's emotional rescue. So now,come,come,come together after midnight,all of you NIGHT GOSPEL Gurus,tonight come together and bring the Light,from the basic essentials steps up the spiral winding stairs to the highest level of total inner-peace and absolute awareness. Here is the place and the time is Now!Let the artist break on through to the other side and wake up in the day light ready to show the world how wonderful life is when Supreme Discernment has finally settled down in the resting faith of our hearts. Tonight NIGHT GOSPEL is celebrating new high- voltage vital energy transmission.Celebrate,pray and generate the Third Vision transplant,for tomorrow the top of the hill must be reached,the Summit where the landscapes of life must be the fidel reflection of the artist's gifts. Antonio Pessoa's Guardian Angel is after all himself,throughout this fascinating odyssey in which the first close encounters are slowly but clearly taking place,as the time sure seems to be rip for great Mind and emotional changes. Riveting inner new experiences coming up almost unexpectedly for the artist,now deliciously finding himself in a new ambitious mission,once again totally determined to solve a whole great deal of dilemmas once and for all. The priority desired effects is to delete all adverse reactions for good,therefore creating a wide receptive open field where fresh and surprising new conclusions shall dance freely in a wonderful gathering of enlightened Awareness! No fear,no anxiety,no doubts and no pain.No regrets,fake dreams,no cry,no thunder and rain.The Night Gospel's spirits,dressed up in fantasy or in fancy dinner party tuxedos are all up for the night shift conference gathering consulting and exchanging valuable enlightened information,coming up with amazing solid answers,positive thinking emotional transmittance,delivered hot as the bright morning good news instant messenger. Artist Antonio Pessoa sleeps tight,warm and protected throughout the night's seconds,minutes and hours,while the NIGHT GOSPEL logical,emotional,pragmatic experts move about up and down the stairs,exchanging valuable extra classified information,busy fast paced walking throughout the science fiction like corridors simultaneously to discover how many and how high quality wisdom treasures can be reached in the many specialized departments of the huge subconscious labyrinth. Men and women working in the E.I.S.,Emotional Intelligence Department,men and women working in the S.C.H.,Social Communication Hall,men and women working in the A.S.S.L.,Art Scene Solutions Laboratory,all of them doctors of the subconscious Twilight Zone providing the artist with well designed suggestions,solutions,tips,tricks and tweaks and sunny glittering bright conclusions. The NIGHT GOSPEL,the super Belief Generator analytical testing gigantic one thousand-storey Towerblock Cosmic Lab,manufacturing mentor written tutorials,explicit inner enlightenment coaching videos and recorded teleseminars through scientific research,experiments,well performed operations and well-calculated pecision-oriented procedures,in order to finally come up with the Morning Daily Discoveries Express,Antonio Pessoa's royal breakfast for a better present,a brighter future and fine art performance Supreme Divine! The power of a tiger hand in hand with the serene energy of an Angel turns out to be the perfect combination as the world shows its two faces,becoming more and more a cross between a racing jungle and a Planet where a new age of human understanding and peace-oriented communication is absolutely required. The NIGHT GOSPEL quality is focused on improving an infinite sense of self-control and furthermore a supreme psychological and intesively emotional control over life's circumstances.The nightly research should and shall bring every single day a higher degree of inner strength and significant increasing communication skills in order to solve every complex situation and every challenging obstacle with striking easy-to-do communication flow,infinite wisdom and solid knowledge. Improving productivity,social and artistic efficiency is a definite urgent issue,in which is absolutely required daily priority updates. So let the NIGHT GOSPEL Machine Orquestra play the ten hours symphony and let the award-winning artist get up everyday filled with a marvelous emotional intelligence composition,a stronger intuition,updated inspiration and the fine living Art Supreme! Calling the Master of the subconscious Universe power station,calling the expert spirits of Wisdom and absolute Knowledge. Calling the new revelations night magicians,bring the Power Supreme of absolute awareness,right timing know-how,the best of the miscellaneous eclectic hidden ultra positive resources. Bring the Sun in every morning and a new supply of magical effective togetherness! The World is here and we want it now,for the Show must go on,only this time under the spotlight of Divine Enlightenment in which we have been initiated by the hidden tradition of our inspired masters. Into the Light and into the Wonderland of secrets of emotional fire,the front page of Presence,the higher stage of creativity,the heavenly gift of cosmic intelligence and the flying wings of total awareness. NIGHT GOSPEL sings Getting Better all the Time,not just once in a while.NIGHT GOSPEL sings Here Comes the Sun,not the answer my friend is blowing in the wind.NIGHT GOSPEL sings We are the Champions of the World,We Won't get fooled Again and never "I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For". NIGHT GOSPEL sings and brings tons of New Bright Light every single sunny day! The body must be totally relaxed,preferably melted in a warm state of pleasurable nothingness,so Mind can enter the very same soft temperature absolute tensionless domain,consequently the high level of Universal Acceptance is finally accomplished now ready to allow the golden storehouse of the subconscious Mind open its doors and windows letting the concentrated source of unlimited awareness start reprogramming the Body-Mind system through a Cul de Sac molecular cable filling the whole living- perception with valuable key answers,keynotes,wisdom and sharp intuition meta tags,high knowledge solid references and in so doing providing an oceanic wave flow of powerful positive energy coming in,slowly but efficiently creating and enhancing a fulfilling ecosystem from which a new perspective of life takes off in the jet-plane of absolute control upon the real world,creativity, global discernment and cosmic cognition. Antonio Pessoa during the making of NIGHT GOSPEL was fully aware of all this wonderful fulfilling process,actually an easy-to-do prophecy and more than predicting,absolutely convinced that this awesome method had indeed the whole potential to make it possible for him to achieve an incredible high level of emotional intelligence combustion. Antonio Pessoa Teen Times This young boy was saucy and mischievous in school,naughty and annoyingly playful,systematically teasing and worrying with impish laughter. If you have watched,seen the incredible story of Mozart,told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri,Amadeus,a 1984 film directed by Milos Forman,you might as well assume it was meant to have the main features of a wild child young boy named Antonio Pessoa.Do you get the picture? The cards were thrown,and the radio was on,modulation of electromagnetic waves releasing the last waterhole of progressive rock,the music of King Crimson,Genesis,Emerson Lake and Palmer,Jethro Tull and Yes,were incorporated elements wild and wide-ranging influencing the teenager's moody blues. As young Antonio Pessoa reached the peak of his obscure high school unpopularity,the seeds of Rock n' Roll were plucking him from the unfair trench warfare of recycled misery,lack of motivation and other grey hobgoblins playing average teachers. The mediocre teacher tells,the good teacher explains and the superior teacher demonstrates.That philosophical much was something young Antonio Pessoa was defenitely well aware of. Now the big question at stake was indeed,where for Heaven's sake was the superior master? While Roger Daltrey,through the record player hi-fi speakers kept shouting "We won't get fooled again" and the Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger went on whispering in the young boys ears"time waits for no one and no one waits for me ",Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven receiving more radio airplay than any other song in history,Antonio Pessoa grabbed his precious treasure,the secret,his perception of urgency,feeling and knowing deep down inside that hours are like diamonds,don't let them waste. The big city atmosphere was bound and just about to take him out on the racing rushing streets and avenues,with soul mates or even as a lonesome wanderer,safely away from his dreadful tyrannic teachers' captivity. Suddenly,one late afternoon he stopped by a shop window where there was a TV Set on and loud and an old band named The Beatles filling up the screen when a seat chilling voice cut through his ears claiming " I wanna hold your hand ". That did it ! Antonio Pessoa buys his first acoustic guitar at the age of twelve. Only music could protect the young lad from life's bumps and bruises. He stalked out of the music shop's door with his brand-new toy,his new chance at life in his hands. All his troubles and doubts were gone and his daydreaming nightmares all packed away. The guitar became his closest confidant for the next three years.It was only natural that he would turn to music to see that after all life wasn't supposed to be so harsh,boring and dull. The artist was no longer panic-stricken,for another flash of light called Rock n' Roll Music was holding his hand.Antonio Pessoa bought that old single." I Wanna Hold Your Hand ". The future was now transparent! By the age of fourteen he had an interview with the manager of a professional rock band.By the end of the demo session Antonio Pessoa had him broad smiling at him.Speechless. The young lad told him:"So let me know what you want me to play more". He was hired and next thing he knew he was the leader of the band! Pessoa inherits from his father his taste for classical music long before his 10th birthday,by then the lad was already a great connoisseur of the great composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach,Ludwig van Beethoven,Johannes Brahms,Claude Debussy,George Frideric Handel,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Giuseppe Verdi,Antonio Vivaldi,Pablo Luna,Achille-Claude Debussy and Giacomo Puccini. Another music genius,modern composer of his fancy,Igor Stravinsky,strange as it seems,comes only a few years later when the fourteen years old boy discovers him through Frank Zappa influence.Antonio Pessoa's obsession by the american musician is going to last a very,verylong time,becoming one of his contemporary composers and performers in the show biz scene ever. Pessoa enters Music Academy,becoming an average piano player before he is fifteen years old.Nevertheless he drops the Academy classes to travel all over Europe,taking him to new fascinating adventures and get well acquainted with Amsterdam,Paris,Brussels and in addition further south with Barcelona and sunny lively magical Ibiza. The crossroads concerning his future in a way were manifesting a whole general interest,leading him to so many different options and activities apart from music and his promising first steps and academic attempts in the drawing,sketching and fine art function,such as Raja Yoga,Pop Culture,traveling,History,languages,ethnic cultures,multicultural perception and awareness,motion pictures,literature and later on even martial arts. Nevertheless,on the other hand all these exciting propositions were bringing his teenage times a whole lot of ideals dispersion and consequently a reasonable amount of distortion,preventing him from focusing his attention on a specific life picture,model and a steady working routine. Despite his Raja Yoga first serious commitment and experiences,his restlessness was going to ensure him a long lasting risky exposure to endure his breathless vivid dreams and wild child adventures plus his continuous wandering- exploring throughout Europe and across the Mediterranean toward the One Thousand and One Nights north african magical exotic space. Young man Antonio Pessoa worships London,loves Paris and simply adores living in Holland,particularly in Amsterdam. It's far too evident that throughout his whole artistic career he idolizes Nederland both in the intensity of his paintings subjects with which he systematically recalls his crazy,wild lively days and promiscuous nightly promenades and in the stimulating cultural diversity he found in Amsterdam during his mid, late teens and early twenties. The dutch background, experience and influences have been clearly proving to be widely generous in the contribution they have given to the brave inspiration and fine art making specifically in his astonishing production of the nineties known as The Romantic Period. Suffice is to say that Antonio Pessoa's teenage golden years have been a product of his wealthy,aristocratic,christian,privileged and extremely well-educated and too overprotected childhood and family background. This social origin heritability,however,involves a controversial feedback causing the effect of the typical spoiled brat,which in his early teens has strongly influenced the by then scandalous impact of the artist's dropping out of high school. Novelty disturbs and repels,and the young boy's originality,playful bahavior and pro New Wave generation appearance and Look,were elements and factors enough,therefore supposed to helplessly make him definitely no exception to the rule. Antonio Pessoa's actions and reactions after a short and unconventional observational sessions period the ultimate ingredients of matter of what it is and how to change it,was gradually dropped,archived and forgotten as in the Common Prayer quote,ashes to ashes,dust to dust. The young boy's yielding tendency was no big deal either,so there it is,his destiny was now being drastically manufactured by an impressive abstract perverted engineer not a bit affected by what would make sense let alone the traditional concept of reasoning responsibility. Pessoa discovers The Beatles long after the band broke up,an objective observer enthusiastically excited about a british phenomenon that no longer existed as a musical ensemble.However the teenager starts collecting all the albums of the worlwide popular four from Liverpool,plus the old singles he grabs on the sly from his two older sisters forgotten idols under the bed overstocked storage dusty piles. The boy besides starting coming up with his own updated versions of songs such as,Back in the U.S.S.R.,Dizzy Miss Lizzy,With a Little Help from my Friends,When I'm Sixty- Four,Yesterday,Come Together,I am The Walrus,Don't Let me Down,Let it Be,Octupus' Garden,Here Comes the Sun,and so on...his first watercolors were also illustrations of The Beatles tunes,five of them actually still belonging to the artist's private collection. With the sound of his twelve strings acoustic guitar he manages to survive quite well and sometimes live pretty well off whenever he rans out of money his family sends him on a regular basis,and in the meantime getting spoiled and used to the idea of having always a crowd of admirers cheering him up,willing to get acquainted with the good looking talented kid...therefore enjoying life with the talismanic euphoric electrifying joy,the apparent ecstatic Gladness,witnessing,feeling and loving the smell,eroticism and rhythm of a young God living the time of his life! The great intense rapture and delight of Antonio Pessoa's Europe trotting mighty performance were crucial for the development of his easy going social communication open-minded extroverted mastery and most importantly an endless huge source of cultural references plus personal experiences he is going to put down in oil on canvas much later on with the striking fine art expression empirical command we all are aware of,and well familiarized with by now. At the premature age of fifteen he lives for the first time with an older woman in the sunny,lively,cosmopolitan,charming island Ibiza,southern Spain,his very first experience with a beautiful spanish girl on a marital like life adjustment,a new performing stage where he quicly learns how to handle the situation,how to act the proper way and most importantly experience the flavour of falling in love,sharing,happiness,glory,fulfillment and overwhelming excitement. In the meantime,young Pessoa was about to define the foundation from which his lifestyle,love affairs,art and everything else was going to be built. Without even knowing or even slightly aware of it he was actually creating the "blueprint" of the life of his dreams.The visualization of tropical fun sunny southern Spain as the perfect ideal was taking shape in his mind,heart and soul as a subliminal messaging recommending the perfect living program right there in the right place at the right time. By now he was able to see so many solid changes start to happen,feeling a shift in his inner world and listening to a voice telling him out loud "Go for it young man"! His heart his in a flurry of activity flooded with colorful and powerful images of the way he wants his life to be. The price Antonio Pessoa had to pay for it,well that's indeed something else,the other side of the coin,or if you wish,The Dark Side of the Moon! The price Antonio Pessoa had to pay in order to keep on leading such a cinematic breathtaking exciting and fabulous adventurous life has been equally proportional to the heat of the magnetic heart beat acceleration filled with romanticism,adrenal ecstasy,breathtaking stimulus and unspeakable eroticism. The price the artist had to pay in order to live up to such a motion picture like dynamic play,exploding with creative spontaneous intensity,was after all a continuous display of troubled moments and painful periods,falling cold hard rain,envy,defamation and so very often compulsory forced constrain. However like in the happy ending fairy tales,the artist,dressed up as a modern times Knight in a Shiny Armor,Pessoa metamorphically creates a remarkable immune system which to some degree and extent,became his Guardian Angel and master protector throughout the years and very particularly whenever the sign said "if you're looking for trouble you came to the right place". Nevertheless,Pessoa wasn't definitely looking for trouble,no way,but rather aiming to let his deep beliefs all out in the open and make a magical mystery tour out of his life. Antonio Pessoa,a steady regular of the Louvre Museum and of the Centre Pompidou during his countless visits to Paris,,is basically fascinated by the impressionists,namely Pierre- Auguste Renoir,Paul Cézanne,Alfred Sisley,Camille Pissaro,Édouard Manet,Edgar Degas,Monet,Bazille,etc...visits for the first time at the age of sixteen,the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueras. If Pablo Picasso - apart from his Blue Period masterpieces - didn't succeed awakening Pessoa's special interest for his oeuvre back then,on the contrary,Salvador Dali's surrealistic paintings caused an immediate impact on the young man's emotions and subjective personal criticism.However,anyway,still not yet to such a degree of love at first sight worth mention it. Only four years later was Antonio Pessoa going to have the opportunity to approach Dali's work and biography with a different perspective and this time now at last with an increasing particular interest,after several visits to a Dali's retrospective exhibition downtown Amsterdam. As for Pablo Picasso,it was going to take a whole lot longer,before Pessoa actually discovers in the spanish master's life and work,enough substantial interesting content to grab his attention and even so,only during the nineties,finally accepts Picasso not just only as a modern art pioneer and a genius unique,but also as an art action working phenomenon lifestyle model. During his late teens,Antonio Pessoa remains totally devoted and genuinely faithful to the impressionism,neo-impressionism and even fauvism. André Derain,Henri Matisse,Paul Gauguin,this one his favorite modern master ever,and even Maurice Vlaminck. Pessoa attends his first art workshops in Amsterdam at the age of seventeen,arousing the teachers curiosity first and after a short while even their astonishment at his drawing skills and very particularly at his unusual action speed. Despite his obvious growing interest in Fine Art,Antonio Pessoa's priority is still music.He enjoys playing Live with bands but on the other hand playing solo provides him with a much higher daily-weekly income plus the absolute freedom he feels,enjoys and relishes,with his new Fender acoustic guitar always by his side to keep him company and keep the show going on. By the age of seventeen,Pessoa has indeed become a very interesting,vigorous and enthusiastic piano player,a rather eclectic singer with a powerful and now well trained voice,a guitar player with a very spontaneous improvising flow plus a highly developed technical quality now which naturally gives him always the privilege of being accepted and hired right on the spot by some of the best New Wave rock and Jazz bands in the dutch-british Amsterdam's music biz scene. Back and forth from southern Europe to the magical northern Triangle,London,Paris and Amsterdam,Antonio Pessoa now an eighteen years old busy,extroverted,dynamic lad,is finally experiencing something close to a nervous breakdown. Too many night Live music gigging around,footloose and fancy-free short-term love affairs,spectacular Live Painting and too much on the road Europe up and down sleepless nights and frantic days,celebrating life,youth and that special take it as it comes sort of breathless allucinating living rhythm,a physical and emotional earthquake which was at last coming up with a rather harsh verdict,ruthless and inevitable,stating that the glittering fast heavy speedy trunk was running out of fuel,meaning the young man needed urgently a God-forsaken break,energy was fading away,over and out! That actually did it and the Final Countdown was online like a boomerang feedback effect warning. Antonio Pessoa drops everything in a wise hurry and after randomly pack his backpack,he takes off in the first available plane and yes,next thing he knew he was landing at Casablanca airport. Exoctic,magical and new,like being in another far away Planet,another cultural twilight zone he had been reading about in books and by watching old Golden Years Hollywood motion pictures. However he was no veteran brave Lawrence of Arabia,nor dressed up like Peter O'Toole neither that was a cinema silver screen opening widely making way for a CinemaScope Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor great adventure. This time it was for real,useless start playing Indiana Jones,Valentino or even Humphrey Bogart,for now this daring young man knew right away he was on his own in a strange new world,where learning how to play by the rules was just about the same as starting from the scratch. Wandering around Casablanca was definitely really something,fascinating,that puzzling feeling of weird excitement,on the other hand there were to many resemblances in the superficial details with the modern European metropolis. That wasn't his idea of breaking on through to the One Thousand and One Nights incense smelling,colorful marketplaces established in mysterious narrow streets,where anything can happen,even oblivion. Pessoa entered Casablanca's bus Station and after one hour map researching he found his index finger pointing at one specific spot by the sea.Essaouira! The Rolling Stones lead guitarist Keith Richards, and Jimi Hendrix favorite Moroccan hangout. Also the place where in the early fifties Orson Welles stayed during the filming of his classic version of Othello.Also legend has it that during Welles sojourn in the town he met Winston Churchill.Anyway,what do you know! The long,long bus trip to Essaouira supposed to take seven hours,after all turned out to be a fifteen hours noisy,shaking endless voyage across a mysterious outstretched display of strangely silent exoctic small towns where the screechy bus came to a long waiting stop during which scruffy looking and shabby dressed folks slowly came to board carrying dusty straw bags,rabbits,chickens and the round eight inch diameter moroccan loaves and titanic goat cheeses they gently shared with everyone in the Noah's Ark looking bus,with some mint tea to go with it. If the heat in the Moroccan Doodle Dandy bus running at its made in the fourties full running speed was basically unbearable,the long motionless wait times became a beyond imagination burning overcrowded concentration Purgatory. Nevertheless,the loud crying children and resigned happy moroccan adults didn't seem to be suffering much,calmly and patiently putting their concerns into a slow low-pitched voice conversation as if the time concept hadn't yet arrived to those fairly backdropped remote villages of the northwestern Africa's semi-arid landscapes. Antonio Pessoa is going to keep these images,impressions,smells and sensations in his system,slowly cooking a cultural recipes collection he is going to print on canvas with rich imagery and captivating fine art narrative,a visible indicator how the extent of these arabian adventures provided a great influence upon his later artistic performances during his mid- twenties. During those six weeks in Essaouira and it's sandy,sunny,soporific outskirts,the young artist pulls himself up the dunes diving into the hot sand,running to the beach watching the sun tumble red beyond the oceans skyline.He scans his daydream searching for the new meaning of all related to life,spirit,culture,awareness and imagination,chasing the magic's wild horses running after a mirage just about to become real. No,that wasn't a dream,rather a high quality revelation as he by raising his head could make out diamond designs as sensual erotic pleasures,now with his hands in the sea water and feet in the air smiling at friendly upside down angel faces dancing to a sound of an old arabian music he couldn't explain,only hold that vision,feeling and thought and keep it forever as a knowledge private treasure,a universal religious arrangement he could only entirely confess in the privacy of his later fine art sessions. No more searching in vain was the final conclusion as the flying angels kept on getting back to him,as the african red sun went on falling behind a great distance. The young man only felt a pleasurable tiredness after receiving the unexpected instructions,finally falling asleep behind a soft tender dune under the One Thousand and One Nights stars,knowing that from then on he could live forever in harmony with the universe and that all his efforts should be directed towards the realisation of the Truth,goodness and beauty in love,heart,life and Art! Antonio Pessoa leaves Morocco with a new outlook of life and very particularly with a new perspective of Old Christian Europe. After a few summertime weeks in is dear Nederland,he returns to his family nest. He goes back to his Raja Yoga and Meditation sessions and rituals and becomes a seriously commited disciple of the oriental martial arts high values principles and philosophy. With nineteen years old he has a daughter,Paula,with his first official wife,Helen. For a few years he dedicated his time to live music,fine arts and his family. However it wasn't going to take long before Pessoa hits the road again,playing live and developing his art technique,expression and performance wherever he is and most importantly accepting new influences,such as Wassily Kandinsky,Joan Miró,René Magritte,Tanguy,Man Ray,Vieira da Silva,Marc Chagall,Andy Warhol,David Hockney,just to mention a few.He becomes for some time a true eclectic artistic tendencies researcher. Nevertheless yet ten years still have to go by before Pessoa drops music professionally to become a steadily full commited art studio worm and on a surprising short-term,a unquestionable experienced art studio veteran,working on a daily basis, almost as a religious ritual,a solid lifestyle prospect he's actually going to develop and cherish with a unique enthusiastic endeavour,maintaining it with increasing passion,devotion and an amazing fast improving determination,learning eagerness,method and discipline,a validated procedure which is going to become the basic essentials of his worldwide artistic professional reliability reputation and at last but not the least the very power source of dynamic art action remarkable studio performance naturally and inevitably turning out to be the creative energy fluxus which after all gave birth to one of the largest high quality solo artist fine art collections of the last decade of the Twentieth Century! THE BELIEF GENERATOR,oil and acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa,2007,is paradigmatic enough of how the artist is stubbornly committed to his wonderful plan of self-assurance and certainty by continuously administrating his primary beliefs regarding the wisdom he is already being rewarded with and inevitably by translating it into contemporary fine art expression,more and more able to reflect the spreading of supreme awareness elements,persistently fertile,clear signals of a new age of higher artistic values propositions surprisingly concise despite the colorful illustration of the running symbols plus the elite drawing description,obviously a still remaining aesthetics conceptual principle and traditional consensus of his huge oeuvre's different periods. Ready,Steady...GO! This could be an intro for a cool running marathon,a racing start being broadcasted all over the Planet. However,this new breeze marathon has no special schedules nor a beginning and end. In short,to make it properly stated,it's more about an enjoyable Mystery Tour,where artist Antonio Pessoa takes the leading role,not because he obssessively wishes to,but just because one way or another the Show must goon,and the artist,like it or not,has got to take the leading role of this motion picture making,Antonio Pessoa contemporary Fine Art! Cool as cool can be,the modern master enjoys life over career struggle,self-satisfied in his comfostable lifestyle,making the most of every single moment and social meeting,an attitude which only a high level of wisdom can afford right there,in the kitchen's heat,in the middle of today's art scene traffic jam. No need fo more reference guides,exhausting analysis or nail-biting volcanic information,even thrilling adrenaline last minute think things through rally time emergency episodes,some kind of "help me God this is driving me crazy" sort of B Movie like,bad TV soap drama sinking one's soul fast into an abyss of awfulness.No Sir,I say,definitely,no way. As I put down in words what's happening in Antonio Pessoa's life,I love to admit what I suppose I already knew.The artist paints and does it with the amazing and amusing serene emotions of a true art studio veteran. His command of the contemporary fine art language has unquestionably reached its highest level up to now. Regardless the multiple projects he is involved with,plus his systematic and deserved spare times of adorable procrastination,he manages to develop his oeuvre program with the easy-to-do quick and cool flow of the experienced Modern Master,an almost exotic performance,resizing an endless selection of ideas onto the canvas,downloading already invented framed pictures and sketches wandering for the past few days across his mind,with the high technical precision of his striking painting brush caresses. Great achievements occur when an artist has something original to say,art at home and abroad,here he goes once again,the contemporary dancer for some moments let us suppose that instead of painting he is in an Edgar Degas Ballet rehearsal,exhibiting a harmonious serene emotional flow,voilà,a gentle and sentimental gentleman excelling by doing pure contemporary marvel! Too much for one day sometimes in Antonio Pessoa's life.The phone doesn't stop ringing,the artist has already been talking to a whole lot of collaborators,art dealers,friends,family,art critics,web designers,to a point of feeling overwhelmed by the interferences rush,good news,bad news,problems,urgent decision taking situations,you name it. Nevertheless the modern master gets back down to work,in his devoted art action intimacy,writing his own diary on canvas with the steady punctual recording reliability of a life reporter. The Fine Art synopsis gains more and more expression as the artist solves the composition puzzle,through his own interpretation of his thoughts,feelings,emotions,beliefs and conclusions. Tomorrow will be another day,another adventure,very probably another artwork,ready for the viewers eyes and public opinion. His art well expressed diary shall be always the mirror of his most intimate perceptions,as the world keeps going round and round and life proves to be a magical box of unexpected surprises,a complex fascinating interconnecting forum in which a great communicator such as Pessoa definitely will have a word to say,something to share,a message to herald and an interesting role to perform. Mr.Vicente Fernandez Lago,Antonio Pessoa's closest friend,partner,public relations in Spain,Miami,southern California and Latin America,and the artist's most reliable and steady collaborator for the past ten years up to now,is the unmovable solid as a rock structure which proves to be the most effective support mainly in south western Europe,entirely involved,excited,enthusiastically motivated and focused in the modern master's worldwide Project.Fact. In today's growing selfishness- oriented racing world,a strong partnership such as this seems to be a rather royal priviledge both for the artist and Mr.Lago. Anyway,in the meantime,Antonio Pessoa lives up to his lifestyle concept,the sort of life he actually wishes to lead and also the glamorous social,dynamic and creative daily routine which better fits his unique,contemplative,even controversial personality,perception of space and time,art performance,living aesthetics,roots and traditions,deep beliefs and general interests. Right now,owning four art studios he calls home,Pessoa paints as he prays,actually by using a very sophisticated method of Mind Power improvement and enhancement,thereby systematically downloading inner philosophical and pragmatic links,providing him with a true substancial existential amount of references possibilities and daily sunny new solutions in order to face art action,public communication,social meetings,art scene unexpected puzzles and real life challenges...with the easy going decisions taking and making expertise and in so doing obviously getting the work done,so to speak. On the whole the art scene and art market practical matters demand a well defined matter-of- fact positive thinking,plus a master approach to each and every complex issue,crossroads,task accomplishment oriented processes and a healthy straightforwardness to manage and deal with urgent action-based rough sledding situations. Antonio Pessoa more himself than ever before,seems to have dismissed most of the old specif and too obvious influences and in so doing,his today's art expression definitely gained a wonderful and charming miscellaneous New Look,with a new original togetherness about it. Nevertheless it's good to be able to observe that his favorite old and modern Great Masters still have a very special place in his heart,in his art and most importantly still have the power of the wise advice providing,plus the honour of being consulted now and then,once in a while,most of the the time or even maybe on a daily basis. Let alone the so many very interesting contemporary emerging artists from all over the world Pessoa admires,unquestionably an excellent source of new ideas,concepts,aesthetics and tendencies definitely not to be ignored...the Twentieth Century Modern Masters live on forever in Pessoa's Temple of the Great Masters,where the flame of genius keep on burning and sparking,sheltering and fuelling Antonio Pessoa's inspiration with their eternal teaching,foresight and veteran experience. THE BELIEF GENERATOR is a good example of why,how and where the Great Masters come back alive and live together again celebrating and surely congratulating the talent,skills and mastery of one of the most relevant contemporary artists in today's art scene. Antonio Pessoa Spiritual Light SPIRITUAL LIGHT , acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,describes a lengthy experience of Divine Spark,a five star self-education manifesting itself as a out of the darkness process and resolution,predicting a sudden and intensely bright relationship with life itself,the immediate awakening to a new outlook of existence,peace of mind,global perception,universal understanding and Art Supreme. Many questions arise concerning Antonio Pessoa's latest changes,although to many arguments entitled to make this magical resurrection unecessarrily more complex and unbearably annoying,might be an utterly useless waste of time and energy. Suffice is to say,though,that all this wonderful phenomenon is indeed a far more simple and tangible spiritual accomplishment,and I don't think it involves some kind of Buddhist etiquette to achieve this rewarding self-realization level.Fact. There's a time and a place for everything,now was the time for artist Pessoa to exorcize the leftovers from his enfant terrible recent past,and the place is an open to the universe New World,a holy planet where the unclean poor devils and perverted demons have no more connection with roleplaying in the awesome marvelous motion picture titled Antonio Pessoa Fine Art. The Show must go on,however this time now,once and for all and for good,under the Spiritual spotlight,a bridge over troubled waters where the good men and women can picture the presence of the accredited broad range of positive thinking,follow the true easy- to-do higher beliefs,a magnificent model rooted in living out loud in the moment,in the Temple of Love and eternity! With the Spiritual Light guidance and universal perspective,for artist Antonio Pessoa art career urgent issues,daily weekly stress and rush hours social traffic,is not a problem anymore even when the weight of pressure begins to fall and there he is standing in a crowded solo art show opening stuck in a conversation nobody seems to hear and not a single care in the world but the supreme sensation of being alive experiencing the motionless pleasure of cosmic awareness. Just like the Sun,Art through the Spiritual Light seems to fly upon the wings of the new revelation,the creative rainbow rise as the wisdom everlasting breeze softly and gently blow deep into the artist's wide inner acceptance providing inspiration,genius,invention and in so doing everything comes out generating art action spontaneity ,art expression command and flow in every stroke of the painting brush. With the simple notion "I am the Light",Antonio Pessoa becomes more artist and great communicator than ever before. He is now in a far higher level of contemporary fine art making supreme because by now he already knows the most natural,reliable,healthy and powerful way to achieve all his desires as an artist and a human being.His Mind! Whatever his desire or dream,Antonio Pessoa has now the easy-to-do ability to realize it and release it.Thanks to Spiritual Light it's all truly within his reach TODAY! The artist starts his daily art performance journey and over the next few minutes he is going to find out how to take the next step,the step that shows him to unlock his full potential and realize all of his dreams as an art communicator. His subconscious Mind takes control and drives the artistic intuition while his conscious Mind is well focused on absolute art action. Believe it,that's exactly how it happens in Antonio Pessoa's life today. All of his desires are just a step away.Changing his subconscious,Antonio Pessoa is now delivering into his art ritual and artistic productions,all of his potential almost instantaneously. He has unearthed a method that within a few short while,will have his current subconscious destination falling to the canvas space,allowing his new artistic destination to take its place. Suddenly amazingly fine art possibilities and new opportunities appear where nothing existed before. Antonio Pessoa,more than ever feels the art making friction begin to turn in his favour. After weeks and even several months of personal research and exhaustive concentration,Pessoa finally found the secret to changing his artistic destination the easy way,his life and art performance is now filled with joy and happiness. Antonio Pessoa today has increased the depth and intensity of true and effective art communication,public voice,worldwide reputation and without special effort.Spiritual darkness is a thing of the past. With doubt,anxiety,and fear of confrontation behind,the artist,studio veteran,art expert and communicator,Pessoa now wins at all things and artistic challenges he takes on. No wonder so many friends and artists from all over the world are in awe of his ability to actually achieve against all odds! Flying answers overflow as in Dylan's song "Blowing in the Wind",flooding the canvas atmosphere,a dim lighted dawn where passaging bright undefined icons expand across the narrative field,conducting feelings and sensations through a super motion range of tones.Cubist style windows stand as the puzzling background providing light,as a temperamental spiritual heating,as a supreme emotional ventilating system. More than storytelling,Antonio Pessoa reveals spiritual graphics,magical verse words of wisdom through some playful fine art fiction. He dares to be different while pleasing the viewers eyes and senses,and in so doing also letting them discover the epicyclical relations within their hearts,over the Moon and straight back down to Earth for a new mystical existence and freedom enhancement. The Timeless Time concept is now a well integrated attitude in the artist's practicalities of Living,as Spiritual Light generates true liberty,counseling and soul's spring guiding. The Timeless Time concept thereby becomes the interpretation of life in a new edition of universal appreciation and meaning and so therefore establishing a fundamental new equation of contemporary art,a timeless time transpersonal relativity in his everyday fine art making life function,creating and maintaining this private meditation well-being high above to receive continuous Spiritual Growth,tangible artistic objectives plus the wonderful nature of infinity as the next and most reliable unifying point between nothingness and eternity. The Big Thrill as for right now is indeed what future attitude is the artist going to faithfully adopt and by which endless road is the Spiritual Light going to lead him. Once established that his art career is just another alternative creative support-not financial whatsoever,given Pessoa's privileged circumstances-the general perspective seems to be deliciously abstract to say the least. Antonio Pessoa becomes more than ever a quality Living arquitect,a global entrepeneur and ironically a new sort of emotional-intelligence Guru,definitely a new format of spiritual designer. The Big Time artist now possesses and fully enjoys this universal unmovable faith.Not an ephemeral daydream that lacks maturity and understanding,but a genuine attitude of deep belief in himself and in his growing worldwide community of followers and soul mates. More than ever before,in tune with his amazing skills,talents and now the new abilities to see the unseen and to create the uncreatable,Antonio Pessoa besides going on and on producing quality contemporary masterpieces, also by steadfastly bringing out all it takes to make the most of his unstoppable beliefs and high-faith...becomes a leader-believer sharing,expanding,promoting the valuable vision of lifelight welcoming friends,artists,writers,art curators to explore the rewarding possibilities of spiritual power,of purpose and impact in order to provide contemporary expression with a far much stronger worldwide Voice,involving media,the new generation of modern masters,art gallery managers,art collectors and obviously the international art loving public. A wonderful project thanks to a new outlook of life,basic meaning perception and the Spiritual Light as the latest and most reliable supreme energy and human belief generator. Viewing and observing Spiritual Light,one thereby witnesses that what makes this charming painting worth being exhibited to the world's art lovers and the sensitive educated art collectors judgement and opinion,is its eclectic identity regardless the original competency and unique quality stamp of the masterpiece. However,Pessoa's multiple influences on this particular canvas development,may take us directly to recall Wassily Kandinsky,not only for its colors and abstract iconographic metamorphosis but also concerning the global conception of the whole artwork,where sensorial magnificence,inventive richness and emotional eclipses are exposed with the highest precision and clarity,plus with the spiritual lyricism of linear forms and of course the inevitable figurative-abstract art expression interesting opposite visual forces. As for Jackson Pollock,that's something else indeed,as far as Antonio Pessoa's latest oeuvre is concerned.The unmistakable influence of the controversial american painter is well illustrated not only in Spiritual Light,but actually in most of the artist's artworks from 2006 up to now. Maybe it's just a necessary period of experiments,maybe unwrapping Pollock's magical box in order to solve the mystery and in so doing creating a wisely updated version of his style mixing it with other plastic formulas bound to get the required togetherness whole combination,which in fact has always been somehow one of Antonio Pessoa's traditional methods plus one of his most honorable manners to pay tributes to his favorite renowned Great Masters,consequently even sometimes surpassing them excelling in such a daring performance not only as an artist but also inevitably as a notable art historian. The general idea after all,gives us enough accurate perspective and solid ground to assume that Spiritual Light,much more than another excellent painting among the huge Antonio Pessoa's private Art Collection,is a rather sufficient evidence of the current global emotional and positive thinking climate changes within the artist inner atmosphere,and inevitably in his lifestyle,social life,professional status,art career and most importantly in his personal well-being generating a stronger art expression impact and empathic communication skills. Getting rid,step by step,and finally once and for all of the old patterned prototypical misguiding concepts,the artists breaks out of the stereotyped shell and in a wink of an eye he wakes up to a new sunny journey of imaginative individuality,gracefully protected by the rewarding Divine density of Spiritual Light bound to self-perfection. This essential advice has given Antonio Pessoa the keyanswers to achieve brilliant awareness and brightness,the highest level towards creative quality art and living transcendance. Embracing the enlighted living,not only the artist is by now discovering latent abilities but also higher standards of emotional interaction introducing him to a surprising legitimate artistic authority which,as it is,contains the timelessness vital space where art expression and effective communication performance are at last able to find all the tools to accomplish total freedom,happiness and very probably on very short- terms the justifiable pertinent possibility to finally achieve Nirvana! Antonio Pessoa Art Times Antonio Pessoa Lifestyle As we all know,life sometimes can be very stimulating and rewarding,although unexpected changes and unpredictable surprises may sometimes turn everything upside down in such a frantic manner that next thing you know one might as well start having the strange sensation of being living in another life. That actually happens quite often,despite our daily efforts to organize our routine and shape it into a life style model we've been dreaming of for quite a long time.fair enough. Nevertheless destiny or fate have a weird way to continuously show us we should be always ready to be born again in a new dimension of perception,emotions and philosophy. And that's what happened with Antonio Pessoa,a far too long display of adventures,relationships, art style changes,love affairs,a broken marriage,more last minute made up decisions leading too yet another frantic new adventures,falling down and stepping up again...and suddenly waking up in a new universe of wisdom,peace,emotional rescue and maturity responding to the circumstances in the appropriate manner of a wise artist,person and citizen,now acting more out of a learned intuition rather than the impulsive associations of a few years ago. Most important of all,amazing as it actually is,Pessoa somehow managed to keep his life style intact, maintaining his powerful strong beliefs in complete form and function,an entire integrity towards himself,art,friends,partners and life in general. Unquestionably we are indeed facing and witnessing a high quality inner motivation source,a sustaining inspiration definitely related to skills,talent,artistic performance,commitment and an absolute striking positive thinking and energy. In the contemporary fine art field it has been always genuinely spontaneous and heartfelt the way Antonio Pessoa managed to share and also promote his faith,heart and soul both with the worldwide public and with his fellow artists as well. This apparently basic overview of Pessoa's proven solid principles provides us with enough high ranking common-sense when it comes to accept once and for all this artist and art expert,as a unique and gifted excellent example of a true remarkable paradigmatic manifestation of a continuous urgency to turn daily routine into a supreme positive and productive lifestyle. I would say that maybe one of the secrets for Antonio Pessoa's lack of anxiety concerning his artistic career,lies on his general perspective of life,in his particular case a huge endless universe of possibilities,obviously in direct relation to his eclectic multifacetic skills,his high cultured,educated background,plus an outstanding hyperactive intuition and intelligence providing him with an impressive selection of options and several dimensions of identity ,life approach and striking performance. Antonio Pessoa's global cognitive and abstract relational functions allow him a continuous easy- going life leading just by sharp instinct and highly developed emotional intelligence. An IQ also playing a very important role in today's contemporary art scene as we all know by now. To assess Pessoa's relationship between art production-invention and his always glamourous,original lifestyle,we should be able and capable to actually examine a great deal of his stimulating and almost Hollywood-like biography,the most reliable form to bring enough discernment of the essential motivations of the artist and art expert,for,let's face it,indeed an artistic performance of Antonio Pessoa's caliber is definitely the blending of intelligent intuition and some hard work to go with,naturally. One of the great aspects of Pessoa's lifestyle is,from my personal perspective- a reliable view considering my already ten years as one of his closest collaborators and friends- actutually his tremendous capacity to disconnect from the pointless pursuit racing crowd and by choosing the withdrawal back to his unique spiritual universe,quickly recovering the vision of soul,matter and self,exploring new existences of thought,space and art expression,a gathering place for truth,creativity,self-improvement and usually the results of all this fascinating process come up as the art science necessarily starting with new propositions of true amazing contemporary communication,by dissecting and interpreting all the philosophical conclusions.Lovely! Antonio Pessoa as a contemporary art programming languages wizard,continuously researching areas related to pure fine art high performance,provides us simple,affordable and almost familiar contemporary art codes and references,the true colors of existence we all feel commited to and helplessly inclined to pleasantly absorb. No wonder Antonio Pessoa keeps on showing the world how wonderful is to create,make art to amuse,delight and give genuine enjoyment to his growing faithful public,followers,art lovers and art collectors. Pessoa,much more than an artist,art expert and art curator,is an art scene observer,watching the fascinating universal out and about of contemporary art opera with the scientific patience of a well absolute focused examiner's mind,gaining day after day,step by step the solid experience and updated information required in order to esteblish a self-trained ready for action know-how. Antonio Pessoa,reloaded with a new outlook of the international art stage,with a great help from his closest collaborators recruits young art critics at the same time that he is indeed entirely commited in the process of organizing an impressive list of contacts of some of the major art collectors worldwide. Great expectations for this young man and his team,plus a great luck and privilege for art galleries directors,curators,artists and art collectors to know they can count on the multifacetic skills of an artist who decided to become one of the most promising and reliable art experts of today's contemporary art scene. However,Pessoa's secret has nothing to do with magic.Actually just a more accurately measured announcement heralding a new performing attitude directly related with the rushing,growing,expanding today's worldwide contemporary art ring. Antonio Pessoa shows this genuine interest and spontaneous tendency,I would say and bet,out of a conscious urgency to fully understand the global art world atmosphere and therefore enjoy the deserved feeling of growing up and improve as an artist,as a mediator and most importantly as a responsible professional all the way,hungry for knowledge and updated information. This well planned and already performing project provides Pessoa with effective oversight,a vault of new ideas,thoughts,visions ans references,acquired art market leteracy and a rich delivering fluid of new solutions,a fresh new art scene guide,the new fundamental assessment tools for artists,curators,art gallery managers and of course,art collectors. The big challenge is aiready an on-going fact and in so doing new devices are already allowing Antonio Pessoa to communicate and share information faster and better than ever. Mr.Pessoa,we all surely shall be looking forward for more! Antonio Pessoa . Winds of Changes Through the winds of changes,artist,art curator Antonio Pessoa,searches for new solutions for his personal life and inevitably for his career as well. A great communicator,Pessoa might find himself at times rather distressed,experiencing doubts,a dangerous field of emotions and unsolved priorities coming and going in a sort of magnetic resonance.Overwhelmed by a ruthless hurricane of contradictory ambivalences which structure seldom turns out to be not as solid as it should,however striking hard enough to create a state of fragility involving lack of interest in the art scene and therefore involving an immediate urgency calling out a new resuscitation of perception and life style. Obviously,this sort of emotional overflow happened so many times in Antonio Pessoa's adventurous life and artistic career involving personal and professional relationships,somehow making him carving his destiny with the unpredictable manner of the ones who never surrender to mediocrity,no matter what's at stake and very often taking the most apparently unthinkable options. Pessoa continues renewing his conclusions,leading him to new values,obviously the necessary Winds of Changes,brand-new updated solutions focusing their positive energy and wisdom on a more solid,self-sactisfying and rewarding life style. This isn't supposed to mean a switch of direction but more likely a fresh new take of perception,self-improvement and therefore happiness and character enhancement step by step method and program. Antonio Pessoa,the artist,Pessoa,I would claim a new sort of art expert,keeps on living and systematically goes on rearranging his inner relations paradigms and beliefs accurately representing reality as a matter of discovery on a daily basis. His personal and always unique life style and posture in the frantic world of today's art scene very probably on very short terms are going to be projected inevitably in his always surprising and tremendously innovative artworks. Unquestionably it has been this unbreakable enthusiasm for the things in life as a whole which has been interesting the public,art lovers and art collectors,somehow turning Antonio Pessoa's life to become even more exciting and thrilling than his artwork. Despite all the ups and downs,ins and outs,Pessoa has always been proving to be and to live at the highest level elegantly faithful to his living and emotional values,no matter what was at stake,let alone his artistic career. Knowing Pessoa as I do know him I can easy and certainly bet that these blowing winds of changes are once again part of a yet another splendid metamorphosic process making way for a new outlook of life,emotional level,life style,perception,happiness and surely a new stage of contemporary fine art performance hopefully coming soon. Nevertheless,one way or another,with more or less art production,Antonio Pessoa seems to be going through a period in which one dozen of stimulating activities seem to come up almost at the same time,involving the artist in a breathtaking overflow of mental energy spending,plus a lot of pressure from the ones who only expect him to act and produce like the average art making commited artist. The apparent effortless manner of leading his life alongside his artistic career,turns Pessoa into one of the most original personalities in today's contemporary art scene,stamped with the uniqueness of distinction,I would even go further and suggest,actually very suitable for a Hollywood production leanding role. Mitigated by the undeniable fact that his artwork is worldwide friendly accepted,admired and cherished,the crash point comes alive time after time when Pessoa runs out of patience or legitimate interest for a specific situation and consequently next thing we know, Antonio Pessoa is driving every of his closest friends and colaborators ,crazy and near desperation filtering through the screen of real life in a splash of emotional storm,freezing flames and God knows what else. And,yes sir,that's when everyone around him starts hating to admit that maybe,well,just maybe,a hard rain is about to fall. Well,art lovers,please do keep these images in your head because according to my ten years of experience,as an art critic and close friend of Pessoa,usually all this on-going Commedia dell'Arte turns out to bring a new breeze of fresh air,well,well,then everything goes back to smooth routine,even against all odds. Anyway,let's face it,an intense,talented,creative one such as Antonio Pessoa,artist,musician,art expert,mediator,couldn't be expected to always react like a John Doe,so to speak.However,despite the amount of good reasons he might eventually think he has to react or overreact,Pessoa at least always seems to dress with the common sense enough to eventually apologize or at least keep in mind in order to be a bit more cool next time social life's weather report isn't favorable to his peculiar and very personal tastes. Sala Panaderas - Antonio Pessoa http://www.galeria- arte.es/antonio- pessoa/2-30-2-30.htm Sala Panaderas in La Coruña,northern Spain,seems to have adopted one of the most promising artists of the international art scene right now,Antonio Pessoa,showing some of his best series of the worlwide known Romantic Period. A very wise choice unquestionably,considering the place and the time when this actually happens. Together with some of the most interesting emerging artists from Galaecia,Pessoa returns to this wonderful region of Spain and in one of its largest cities,La Coruña.This could be the very beginning of a close and expanding partnership,between the artist and Sala Panaderas,in order to give worldwide voice to a culture and a region yet not so much known among europeans and the United States art lovers and art collectors. Looking through the windows of Sala Panaderas front door,we immediately become aware of Pessoa's unmistakable style,the very remarkable stamp of his Romantic Period excellent productions. On a short term this could turn out to be a brilliant and bombastic opportunity and possibility just to break on through to the other side,for them both Sala Panaderas and artist Antonio Pessoa. Precisely just about now when Pessoa is getting ready to take off for the New York art adventure,it's good to find out that an important piece of his most amazing and striking working periods remains in the wise hands of an art gallery which seems to know its way around today's competitive segments of the global art market,despite the fact of Sala Panaderas local environment out and about on-going expanding art vision. Specifically in a region of Europe far from being among the art merchandise leaders,Sala Panaderas swings about obviously with the connoisseur operating knowledge,intuition,wisdom and savoir-faire,managing artistic combinations,style schemes and recipes plus with the punctual layout of elegant and snappy informed conduct aiming and focusing on a relevant qualified performance of a label,product,artists and artworks,providing local art collectors with the comprehensive taste and flavour of quality. Focusing on essential techniques,so it seems,Sala Panaderas or galeria- arte,presents us with a stimulating improvement and Know- How,stepping further ahead and definitely not far from actually taking the leadership of northern Spain's art market monopoly stage. Antonio Pessoa's career,unpredictable has it has always been,leaves us a whole lot of open field to imagine,dream and speculate,however when it comes a time when an artist reaches the point of public under falling burning acceptance and admiration,the synonyms of all these undeniable facts leaves us no much more ground to consider let alone doubt. Pessoa's systematic working method in order to make this wonderful project available to the world is already conceiving interesting results to say the least. Therefore,Sala Panaderas galeria-art,sure deserves our most excited and cheerful applause,definitely our infinite respect for the outstanding enthusiastic passion for your artists plus all upcoming new initiatives in order to expand what is already beginning to look like an impressive and great teaching of art gallery management. As for Antonio Pessoa and Sala Panaderas we are truly lucky to have you both in the recognition club and surely in the spotlight of the international contemporary art scene! Antonio Pessoa Fine Art From now on,anything is possible concerning Antonio Pessoa's professional career,personal life,art production and lifestyle.If all depended on luck then we could sit back,still and quite and wait for the Lucky Stars to do the job.Let's be realistic,things don't actually happen that waymost of the times. So what's the catch? Definitely not a fishing trip.More likely an investment of energy,talent,intuition and public relations common sense. With all the differenceof opinions from the so called "experts" on how to be a top artist in twenty four hours,the on-going process sure requires a extreme high level of human potential,let alone an experienced background in the art studio,art making,talent,art expression,technique and skills.This is something which doesn't seem to worry an art wizard such as Pessoa. In today's worldwide art scene,clearly on the verge of erupting into hundreds of thousands of artists,the art planet on the other hand is quickly loosing the genuine talented species such as Botero,Andy Warhol,Picasso,Georg Baselitz,Pollock,Man Ray,Frank Stella,Thomas Baumgärtel,Antoni Tàpies,Dale Chihuly,Will Ryman,Michael Anderson and at last but not the least Antonio Pessoa,one of the most promising talents of the contemporary new generation. Antonio Pessoa's outstanding artistic achievements,art studio and public performances so far have been showing and providing us with some of the most prolific series of amazing diversity contemporary avant-garde results. For the past ten years Pessoa has been responsible for one of the largest fine art encyclopedias on canvas,shining in his brilliance as an inventor,sketcher,mixing and matching manipulator,new age fine art dancer,an art expression boundaries breaker,daring projects generator,his wonderful spontaneous inventiveness daily updated,successfully acomplishing a high quality innovative artflow identified and recognized as a top contemporary artistic phenomenon.Fact. Reasons enough so it seems,for the world start betting on a sudden explosion of a mythical contemporary art new wave worldwide label titled Antonio Pessoa. Et Voilà!That's the good news.The bad news,perhaps,is Pessoa's comfortable procrastinating attitude,as if life should be an endless leisure contemplative time,despite the artist's natural capacity to sustain a fierce lasting motivation when it comes to sudio artworking,however mitigated by a long term home seet home hypnosis which in a way has been feeding deep relationship with his inner self,on the other hand also the source of the unfair delay of his international reputation. Antonio Pessoa's communication skills,the great artist specialized in visual problem solving and artistic storytelling,exchanges what it could be his pwn version of a top artist for a environmental easy solutions,at home or at the country club,happily following his spiritual stabilization network,as an excuse and also a bad example for the struggling artists from all over the world. I would say,without being much far from the truth,that Antonio Pessoa since the very beginning of his art odissey became fully aware of how much public projection would always determine the voice power and communication strengh ans flow of art expression. However his luck strike in the early 90'sturning him into the most wealthy and productive emerging artists of western Europe,didn't actually change his perceptions of how little art does matter for the public in general without a projection backup to make it enough interesting and charismatic for the art lovers and art collectors. Antonio Pessoa kept on playing his cards,although plenty aware that like beauty,luck and social position,artistic charisma could indeed open many doors in the art scene world. Pessoa's intuitive circuits entirely adapted to the modern times,prevented him from taking himself too seriously and become an artist all the way without experiencing the down-side of the trade,always somehoe protected by his solid rational viewing of art scene community and public. Throughout the years Pessoa's emotional rescue came mainly from his own inner self intuition and wisdom,allowing him to set a stage of favorable situations in which it was possible for him to accomplish a remarkable fine art collection of artworks generating an unquestionable intensive fine art research program,an endless list of art pieces all of them reflecting a live a life you love sort of inspiration status,dream and attitude. All this studio fine art performance took the artist to such a technical degree in which Pessoa at a certain point had indeed constructed a well developed method of easy going power of invention and real time art action on canvas. Recently,Antonio Pessoa,always faithful to his deepprinciples and beliefs,breaks up with the old tendencies and model references,embracing entirely the contemporary speech,despite his collaborators and friends pressure to make him go on with the same old figurative stamp. The recent series of contemporary art reports,show us clearly a great innovative change of his traditional art communication concept,aiming and achieving a brand-new philosophical range,world and lifesyle general perspective and outlook and of course his personal life dimension as well. Antonio Pessoa looks at the international art scene as a wonderful fascinating huge monster,a great amount of art galleries concentrated in the world's largest cities downtown,precisely the sort of noisy,tremblong,erupting,rushing,racing cement jungle,the artist tries to avoid sometimes at any cost,even aware his artistic career depends a whole lot on those top galleries stuck in the middle of the breathtaking metropolitan atmosphere. More and more comfortable in sunny small cosmopolitan spots such as Ibiza,Mallorca,southern France and southern Portugal,Pessoa goes on helplessly postponing his big break and at the same time building up the sort of lifestyle which suits his deep and real nature and conceptual perception of time and life. This contradictory system and situation seems to have gained a great deal of control upon Pessoa's decisions and definitely upon the way he leads his life and lets his artistic career follow behind as if some higher and much more powerful voice keeps on calling alomg the day after day essence of truth to an idyllic perfect combination of pleasures of pure philosophical excellent and delightful easy going glamour. Nevertheless Antonio Pessoa's fine art goes on inevitably despite his obvious production slowdown. Unpredictable as the weather report,Pessoa's personal and professional artistic life one more time remains in God's classified information department.This seems to be so far all the planning tips I can actually come up with and provide the readers,despite the proven reliable Antonio Pessoa's painting machine reputation,his specific and unique energy,cultural heritage and contemporary fine art skills . Private,personal and inner issues always have seemed to be playing the vindicatory role,have always sustained a far more expanding range of influence,than simple matters os position,social status or regular income in Antonio Pessoa's life,for all that matters,and it sure does matter at least what concerns and might affect one way or another one of the most controversial,stimulating artisys of today's art scene. I wish I had a hunch that one line would be enough to state a reliable prognostic,a more consensus panel to clarify,report,solve,reveal,the hidden secrets of the remarkable contemporary art acrobat named Antonio Pessoa. Communication,mixed media on watercolor paper,Antonio Pessoa 2007,could be seen as just another artwork by the artist,however the title leaves enough suggestions, loose ends,arrow keys to navigate related to the frequently asked questions,a dimension of legitimate curiosity where the public,local or worldwide,wishes to know more and more about an artist project,syatematically updated,collecting a punctual interesting selection of information,the classic guide for art lovers,art collectors,art gallery managers,art curators and public in general,providing them with substantial lines to be and being kept informed about what's happening with Pessoa's life,career,work and events. Since 2003,Antonio Pessoa already living in Barcelona,Spain,the internet oviously came up and turned out to be another magical and powerful communication tool,providing the artist's closest collaborators with a rather interesting and direct way to tell the world about Pessoa's on- going events and all sort of valuable information concerning his artitic and even personal life. Antonio Pessoa at the beginning clearly not particularly interested,to say the least,in the internet scene,step by step became convinced of the wonderful communication stream of the cyberspace nowadays. If Antonio Pessoa wasn't after all destined to paint live,as it was his primary purpose at the very beginning of his career,at least now he could be in contact with a great amount of public,mainly in Google,as we all know the most consulted and popular search engine in the internet world so far. Therefore,from then on,Google,Yahoo and Msn indeed helped tominimize the time required to find information about Antonio Pessoa out and abouts. When this internet exploring firat experiences took place,Pessoa was going through a rather complicated and complex emotional period due to his personal life,to such an extent that at a certain given point he could hardly manage and handle his studio work on his traditional daily basis,actually slowing down his art production almost to a dangerous situation of total paralysis. For the first time in ten years,Antonio Pessoa was clearly showing signs of obvious lack of interest in art making,proportionally to the great action time golden years of his remarkable Romantic Period fine art performance. Nevertheless,the show had to go on,and despite the emotional whirlwind,Antonio Pessoa had to make a supreme effort and get rid of a great deal of inner contradictory forces in order to get back up on the road again and start from the scratch,one way or another,anything but surrendering to the evil powers of negative thinking up to cripple his fierce creative spirit. In order to star dealing effectively with the stressful rhythm of the big city and the contemporary art scene life,Antonio Pessoa definitely needed a nice warm bath of courage and at the same time an urgent immersion in the stimulating positive bubbles of daily art working time. Antonio Pessoa got back down to work,back down to earth,with the will power of someone determined to create a new version of his unique lifestyle. While the internet communication and information operation began his close encounters with the contemporary art scene world,Pessoa kept on overcoming his painful emotional blackout the best way he knew how,defeating his inner ghosts with the sword of a remarkable straightforwardness,at last dealing with the infirmity quite successfully. Only two years later the artist finally broke up with the old masters persistent influences giving birth to a brand-new stamp in his oeuvre.The New Era ! By this time the online communication flow had already gone a long way with the talented collaboration of several web designers,young emerging art critics and a new vision of interesting possibilities in the art information field. Antonio Pessoa was coming out of the dark shadows of his studio to the limelight of the cyberspace and therefore exhibiting his life and artwork to a much wider and eclectic educated crowd of art lovers and public. That's the least we can do for all simply adore contemporary art,provide them with all information available,building up a system of online communication,a labor of global sharing just to be rewarded by witnessing with great satisfaction how art lovers get deep enjoyment from knowing more and more about an open book sort of artist,Antonio Pessoa , a man who truly understands that art expression nowadays and more than ever must go beyond the framed canvas and galleries walls,straight into the worldwide public awareness,judgement and criticism,a flying satellite equipped with update art life information reliable reports. Internet allowing fine art and even the artist's personal life as a whole connecting with the world,seems to be unquestionably a healthy and supreme attitude towards the thousands and millions of all of them art lovers,after all the ones who actually make possible and a fact the increasing fluxus of the contemporary art scene. Antonio Pessoa The Picasso's affair Pablo Picasso portrait,oil on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 1999,a tribute to the great twentieth century's spanish master by the artist in the late nineties Romantic Period apotheosis,has survived in Pessoa's private collection throughout the years,one of the main reasons due to his high price,but not quite so... The hidden reasons concerning Pablo Picasso portrait high rating has been so far Antonio Pessoa's unwillingness to sell an excellent oeuvre representing one of the great masters he most admires. In the picture above,Vicente Fernandez Lago,Antonio Pessoa's friend,partmer,collaborator,manager and public relations in Spain and Latin America,stands side by side with the magnificent Pessoa's Pablo Picasso portrait,clearly happy and proud and expanding joy with a broad smile on his face,due to the fact that this summer Antonio Pessoa's Pablo Picasso portrait has indeed been hitting the big time,due to the unexpected countless offers from several top art collectors from all over Spain and also Germany. Crazy as it seems,despite all this rather tempting offers,the jubilant Mr.Fernandez Lago had to turn them all down,one by one,due to the fact that artist Antonio Pessoa simply doesn't seem to be yet quite prepared to say goodbye to one of his private collection's favorite masterpieces.Pablo Picasso portrait. Naturally as the ceaseless offers kept on coming,the painting's price kept on striving higher and higher toward the shinning pinnacle of ninety five thousand dollars! What do you know! Even so,despite the daily continuous pressure from Mr.Lagos,Antonio Pessoa was stubbornly determined to refuse the frantic maddening traffic jam of offers arriving everyday at Mr.Lagos office,either by fax,mail or phone calls. The reason for all this unexpected rushing race after Pessoa's Pablo Picasso portrait,as for the time being still remains quite an unsolved mystery,despite Mr.Lagos helpless efforts in order to actually find out the source of all this sudden summertime fever over one of Antonio Pessoa's Romantic Period private collection favorite masterpieces. Art news travel fast,so it seems,however as nothing can be done against the artist's last word,Pessoa's private collection remains intact just as it was eleven months ago when the artist decided to sell,for a very reasonable price so I've been told,also one of his favorite paintings,titled "Lovers Union",a mixed media on canvas from 1998,delivered to a french art collector who,lucky him,happens to be one of the artist's new friends in the glamorous parisien Jet Set circuit,le beau monde of the french capital city Antonio Pessoa simply adores. It's never enough to mention,Antonio Pessoa's outstanding art studio performance during the nineties and the first two years of the new Millennium,worldwide known as The Romantic Period. It's also quite obvious that Pessoa at a certain point of his feverish hard working studio odyssey,used Picasso as a model and a reference,not necessarily by adopting some of his art expression style but more accurately by leaning on Picasso's working method and discipline. During that time in which Antonio Pessoa could hardly get proper stimulus let alone inspiration from the social circle of local procrastinating and rather démodé artists, surrounded by a bunch of mediocre art dealers whom by fate,culture and circumstances, settled down in a local short vision and small range of art merchandise sort of entrenchment,Pablo Picasso working method comes up as the perfect paradigmatic support for Pessoa,in order to obtain a better focused labor system,the art action process taking the right course of intensiveness,invention and art production. This art action-oriented programming,maintained this powerful model named Picasso well linked with the talented emerging artist named Antonio Pessoa,providing him with a substantial positivism and unquestionably with a great amount of potential energy and motivation. Knowing these facts and once we actually become aware of the great contribution Picasso gave him during times of doubt and lack of references,it's at last understood the clear picture of Antonio Pessoa now and then creating a lasting remembrance with a tribute to the spanish master.Thereby this meaningful attachment between the artist and Pablo Picasso portrait,can be easily interpreted as a touching symbolic gesture of gratitude not only for the supply of psychological support but also as a sign of respect for one of the greatest creators ever! Antonio Pessoa Fine Arts Fine Arts,mixed media-collage on canvas,Antonio Pessoa,2007,projects a clear new art expression and communication attitude and of course a personal option in which the artist obviously signs up a definite commitment to the latest contemporary fine art tendencies,plus a steady purpose to be entirely involved in optimizing new versions of the progressive art langusge of nowadays. This new time and talent updated art action will now be expected to demonstrate Pessoa's increasing quality as a communicator through his classic and traditional fast-paced art action capacity and technical skills. However,the title Fine Arts suggests clearly Antonio Pessoa's personal artistic plans,revealing both his identification with the traditional fine art school and his unquestionable contemporary advanced vision,which may be seen and entirely digested as the artist's specific project right now and also in the long term future,so it seems.Fact! Fine Arts,this assemblage of interesting different forms creating a new whole yet maintaining not only the appearance but also a deep concept of the old masters oil paintings. Agreat admirer of contemporary installations,sculpture,photography and even video and architecture,Antonio Pessoa isn't however quite yet focused on starting transposing his artistic productions into experiencing and experimenting these other fields of contemporary visual arts. Nevertheless as an art expert and full-time art scene observer,Pessoa is inevitably by now highly influenced by all sorts of new avant-garde manifestations as an important redefinition of our times,thereby systematically following and absorbing the whole context of today's artistic innovations thematic features,with the expertise eye on this fascinating contemporary art science and wonderful miscellaneous aesthetic forms of expression. Consequently,Antonio Pessoa's new artworks generally grow significantly aware and motivated by this impressive variety of techniques and media,inspiring him to use this valuable information and natural influences in his latest and upcoming oeuvre. Most importantly,Pessoa strongly believes that any artist should remain faithful to his own convictions,after all the most honorable challenge for any well settled down creative process. Therefore,Antonio Pessoa by building his self- instruction around his own solid convictions,keeps on stumbling upon outstanding lucky artistic discoveries and visual results throughout his passionate art action life and times.Wisely managing his own development and thought,Pessoa persists in the only possible situation.Absolute artistic faithfulness! In a world overloaded with sports and politics,Antonio Pessoa has always been wide aware that art must be definitely emphasised with the public's cumplicity support,as a huge partner in the complex procedure focused on the systematic purpose and effort to give contemporary art a powerful voice worldwide. Pessoa,the artist and always the standing communication fan,leads his lifestyle and manages his energy,expecting something like a brad art boom among the world's population,as just another and yet fantastic tool to provide people with the visual poetry and sense making philosophical items,that interactive dimension which one way or another we all so desperately need in order to keep on going across this mysterious correlation of existence,meaning,freedom and happiness. By thatmeans,Fine Arts - Antonio Pessoa,much more than a painting,a title or even a tandard definition,it's a deep meaningful attitude towards a global project,a new usage,pronunciation,vision and concept of the important role contemporary art should and actually is able to play,as a powerful universal language,an international idiom full of positive.thinking icomic phrases,a whirlwind of true metaphysical substance and genuine humanitarian content and potential. I'm positive it is by now worldwide understood that Antonio Pessoa's project has long ago made its way through the studio walls out into the global concept of a fascinating visionary and humanitarian-minded job. Pessoa's entrepreneurial spirit through the creation of contemporary art operating as a global union and shared motivation mediator,it is after all the real and very true soul of the artist's daily persistent action and efforts. Much more can be siad and it will,a whole lot more can be done and it sure will.Meantime,Antonio Pessoa's Fine Arts project keeps on going as one of the strongest contemporary voices today. It's a given fact and thereby a logical conclusion that the artist's lifestyle is more than ever focused on setting up a stage in which,artists,gallery managers,art collectors and public in general can meet and celebrate one of the most wonderful visions of a new age of art expression supremacy and most importantly fine arts at the service of the dream for a better world,hopefully coming soon. Cheers,Mr.Pessoa! Antonio Pessoa The Black and White album The Black and White album,Antonio Pessoa,1997- 1998,is a must,a historical period in the artist's career and oeuvre,a unique series of charcoal and graphite on paper drawings and sketches,examining and exploring an impressive amount of subjects,from portraits to eroticism,from social caricature to neo surrealism pure automatism,from fantasy art to local cultural traditions,well,you name it. Antonio Pessoa between 1997 and 1998 accomplishes a gigantic something like one thousand drawings,indeed a huge collection,most importantly,a high quality collection,an absolute eclectic display of ideas,memories,visions and inventions,let alone the sharp technical skills the artist once and for all demonstrates leaving no doubts concerning both his talent and drawing technical level. Published in Spain in the year 1999,Pessoa's Black and White album,is a carefully chosen selection of three hundred drawings,by the time of its edition actually intriguing the conceptual and analytical view,senses and sensibility of art critics and public,for its unusual gripping,riveting and even provocative visual content let alone the daring sexual and erotic clear suggestions too far gone explicit in the whole collection. Despite the public embarrassment,Antonio Pessoa's Black and White album,quickly achieved a growing acceptance,enthusiasm,admiration and at last a global positive reputation as one of the most striking art performances of the late nineties in western Europe. In his uniqueness as always,Antonio Pessoa was proving to himself several theories at the same time,during the intensive days of the making of the Black and White album. One,his grand final like self- assurance he had enoughmastery and art action speed for live art performance.Two,the urgency to improve his capability to invent and creat without models,that sum of drawing expertise of a Salvador Dali,Picasso or Leonardo Da Vinci,just to mention a few.And at last,very probably the basic instinct telling him it was about time to explore the freedom of a great adventure across the universe of pure automatism,his deepest unconscious aesthetics and inner complexity,a voluntary sleepwalking sketching performance odyssey. By the time of the making of the Black and White album ,Antonio Pessoa was living in Vigo,the lively charming city in northern Spain,where the artist indeed had the time of his life. Living and working in his gigantic home studio named Atlantis,Pessoa was back then feeling himself rather comfortable and happy with his daily routine and night life as well. Vigo,a five thousand population city on the spanish atlantic coast,provided the artist with a plenty of inspiration atmosphere,plus a stimulating social and artistic circle. Pessoa's Atlantis studio turned out to be his private wonderland,slightly Art Deco decorated,was indeed by then the perfect stage for such a stunning art action performance such as Pessoa's Romantic Period and this particular case related with the unique collection of drawings and sketches titled The Black and White album. After all these years the whole collection of three hundred drawings published in 1999 under the title The Black and White album,still remain in the artist's private collection. Why?That's quite a general mystery,although the main possible reasons point out to the endless display of artworks on canvas Antonio Pessoa accomplished between 1997 and 2002,The Romantic Period,systematically in circulation in the spanish art market providing the artist with more than enough income to live like a king and thereby enjoy life and studio work without the stress of finantial anxiety. The Romantic Period actually gave birth to something like four thousand oeuvres,namely oils on canvas,acrylics on canvas,mixed media on canvas,watercolors,mixed media on paper and as we know,something like two thousand sketches and drawings.Far out! The nineties and the first two years of the New Millennium are so far the most productive period of Pessoa's career. What has been the inner force and motivation making Pessoa get down to work in such a fierce labor activity manner,a pure and genuine art performance without competitive or selfish goals,is indeed a subject which requires a whole lot of examining research and definitely a great deal of time spending in so doing,just to try to figure out the true reasons,motivation and stimulus that made possible the proven accomplishment of one of the most astonishing art studio performances of the nineties in the western world. Antonio Pessoa Living Joy Another dimension of life and perception,a twilight zone of universal peace,inner enlightment and cosmic understanding allows artist Antonio Pessoa to face personal and professional life from a very special perspective,swimming with the wave of interior freedom and self-transcendance,an experience which marks his whole present life and thought,this wonderful emptiness is the dance and the soul of his spiritual development,a magical practice aiming the total equilibrium and the ecstasy of true peace and happiness. In a world globally motivated by money,status and competitiveness,Antonio Pessoa gets a good supply of inner peace and solid structure by the usage of the traditional methods of relaxation,meditation and self- improvement,transforming hard constraints into easy stress relief,body and mind recovering from the everyday art scene rush and thereby providing him with a range of positive states of mind and substantial energy potential in order to reduce,even entirely delete pressure and consequently perform more effectively in his personal,social and professional life. This inner life gift acceptance brings Antonio Pessoa the living joy he's so fond of.Regardless the fact this heavenly state of mind and body download might be a slow process,the happiness and lasting satisfaction upload turns out to be the ultimately rewarding experience,the aspect of spiritual perfection becoming more and more tempting and an increasing pleasurable ritual,as the material world values relevance fade out and away,as the Universe becomes our global perception,so does eternity,peace,love,understanding,acceptance and happiness. What is happening is indeed quite easy to explain.Antonio Pessoa,as always,takes the road of his deepest beliefs and consequently the wise option of maintaining his inner peace and equilibrium as the most important task and achievement in his life,over artistic career ambitions and goals,finantial status,public recognition,press coverage,worldwide reputation and so on. Pessoa's existence optimization succeeds assessing the quality approximation of a junction point of emotional freedom,peace and togetherness,where anything related to greed,struggle,fear,anxiety,let alone career ambition and competitiveness stress,is absolutely dismissed. This self-improving development for higher knowledge,universal wisdom and cosmic awareness well-being is for Antonio Pessoa,man and artist,the best and most important,even urgent qualification over everything else,including his artistic career,naturally. Stairway to Heaven Antonio Pessoa, 2001 Years ago a fifteen years old boy named Antonio Pessoa,discovered Raja Yoga.Patanjali Maharishi's tutorials and guidance leads him through a new perception of omnipresent consciousness the artist accepted as a basic principle which was bound to give him valuable assistance and even protection throughout the years yet to come.That was the very beginning of Pessoa's philosophical excursion into the realms of the Spirit. In moments of doubt and distress,Antonio Pessoa could always count on the inner dimension of Kaivalya,the divine state of emancipation and absolute independence,providing him with the privilege and power of individual soul,knowledge of perception,wisdom and liberation.This wandering spiritual energy led him to that superconsciousness level where absoluteness is experienced in life and in art.These revelations dealing with ultimate truth and self-realization later on turned out to be the body of Antonio Pessoa's lifestyle and the heart and soul of his amazing artistic performance up to now. Antonio Pessoa in the year 2001 paints this lovely and charming watercolor titled Stairway to Heaven,obviously inspired by Led Zeppelin's worldwide known song writen by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant,one of the artist's favorite tunes and poems in his early teenage years. Another clear sign of Pessoa's spiritual beliefs,despite his only apparent attachment to the material world. Antonio Pessoa's spiritual infused nature is systematically stated and manifested not only in the gigantic whole of his oeuvre but culturally installed in his inner serene intensity. Throughout the years the artist embraced the perfect life of Supreme Truth,sheltered within the Universal perception of God,a divine image and concept without frontiers, races and cultures,and thereby is this involving fullfilling experience, Pessoa's mystical perceptual belief,which has been after all the Heart and Soul of his unique parallelism of artistic motions punctually reflecting his mind's infinite idea of a universal,even cosmic conclusion of the many marvels of inner peace,happiness and creativity. This spiritual process has indeed successfully managed to involve the artist in a new generation of new contemporary fine art ideas and concepts and in so doing,in his lifestyle as well. The artist's striking creativity has been many times attributed to divine intervention,much more than merely associated with genius,technical application let alone chance. There seems to be no signs of ambiguity in his multi-dimensional oeuvre,but rather a undeniable fascinating mysterious phenomenon of visible artistic inspiration ever associated with a wonderful spiritual model towards existence and at last generating a positive and impressive affect relation between his inner self and art expression. Despite the dramatic stereotypes,visual impact and fierceness of the Black and White album as in many paintings of the bombastic,inflated and sometimes even pretentious Romantic Period,Antonio Pessoa keeps on going back to his depth seeking exercise,where he's once again pleasurably delighted to return to the dimension of feelings control,dancing away with the sound of the silence and the body of the Great Revelation. Stairway to Heaven is just another reflection of an artist charged with the power and the presence of God,that universal immense ocean of wonderful wandering awareness that surrounds us,but too often we just can't see it nor feel it. But then Art communication by the hands of a devotional wizard can bring us or gives back the gift of contemplation and understanding,that supreme degree of emotion and intuitional sensations we all so desperately need in order to finally see,feel and witness the bright side of reality,the true side of existence. The Stairway to Heaven!! Antonio Pessoa Space Space,mixed media on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,besides establishing and expressing a definite new line of aesthetics,plus an apparent simplicity despite its complex set of effects,let alone the traditional pattern of chromatic abundance in a well combined display of emotional and motion variations,reflects clearly the artist's growing commitment to the inner methaphysical dimension of spiritual togetherness,mind and body exploring and experiencing the vast horizons of deep revelations,that supreme moment in time and space fusion when after the shutting down of all negative interferences,the sensorial Space becomes the whole universal,where wisdom,knowledge and awareness flow in spherical positive and bright radiations like shining stars into our soul. Antonio Pessoa expresses in Space the light of eternal wisdom,love and inner power when spiritual sight breaks through a vision of cosmic reality,that level of metamorphosic bridge between nothingness and rebirth! As the figurative elements quickly fade away,a new breeze of inner contentment and deep serenity art expression spreads across the canvas field,unwinding the space far from any suggestions definition based,supplying genuine concepts of pure and universal abstract thought,not only in a total contemporary format but most importantly with a manner of speech inspired by simplicity,spontaneous in its making and art expression,bound to a lightning approach for immediate communication with the viewer. The transformation of art from solid into liquid,that's how Antonio Pessoa melts the light atmosphere of cosmic discernment into colors and shapes,pure contemporary fine art easy digestibility literature,embellished by soft beauty looking poetry not only reflecting an advanced fluxus of perception and emotional design,but a global heartfelt determination to share,spread and absolutely communicate. Antonio Pessoa's now everyday life's faithful listening,discovering the truth,clearly enables him to come up with amazing artistic choices such as Space,where the Divine awakening ritual,spirit,possession and even mysticism,bowls well out in the open in the full glare of a new life's shining sun,of a new life's burning flame. This personal option to turn his art career a less and less urgent,even important issue,and in the meantime his personal life a first priority self-improvement wonderful procedure,always counting on all the lovely people,those who wish to make our planet a much better world to live in,might be Pessoa's most remarkable achievement of the New Millennium . Impressive but entirely true,the increasing attitude aiming to convert himself into a paradigmatic model of serene strengh,love,positive emotional freedom and happiness. And in so doing,we gradually can count on a valuable and creative presence of a faithful bright new age voice sender,expressing himself through art and hopefully more and more throughout the world. I personally believe there is no way back,now that artist Antonio Pessoa walked out for good from the lascivious lifestyle of the Romantic Period,the lustful times of an artist looking for something or even someone he hasn't found after all those years of fine art theatrical fantasmagory and seven days a week night life cocktail. Those days are gone and gone forever,no doubt about it,the only loose ends remaining is the foggy memory,as cloudy episodes of another period,another time,another life's extravaganza,cinematic and burlesque,lavishious delights,passionate childish exhibicionism and euphoric social performance. After all Antonio Pessoa is well aware that all those maddening precipitation events that followed the bohemian Romantic Period days,if not God's punishment for the artist's rebellious behaviour,at least it has been a long cold black night in his soul and in his life as well,a long time enough of storm and hurricane just enough to be face to face with tragedy and consequently to regret. That's when a self instructional program comes up as an open door and many open windows overlooking a new world of perception,well- being,sharing,confort,love and happiness. After the long crossword puzzle,Antonio Pessoa suddenly finds himself in front of a wisdom whispering mirror,telling him Divine Light is the only place in the Space. The artist's self-improvement proficiency,as in many troubled times throughout the years of his adventurous journey,once again has rescued him from the howling monster,transforming anxiety into supreme serenity,as the awesome complexity of existence all of a sudden gently appears dressed up like a magician with angel wings. Space,beyond the harsh atmosphere of life's struggle,Space,a set of wonderful dimensions in which the fundamental abstract concept seems to be the only relevant definition of time,existence and sense.Space,an infinite independent location that challenges systematic notions of pressure,tension and friction.Space,the pure natural awareness where philosophical questions are gently mitigated by Universal Acceptance! Antonio Pessoa Contact To contact artist Antonio Pessoa is no big deal after all.To make it simple and reach him directly,wherever he might be in the planet earth at that moment,the best way is to drop him a line to his web based Yahoo mail account. Despite his several email adresses,unless you contact the artist to his Yahoo Home Studio online...you'll never know who actually happens to be on the other side of the line,probably one of his collaborators or web designers who ater reading your message might take him ( her ) sometimes more than two weeks to send Antonio Pessoa your email,after the usual selection of priority letters as it happens indeed most of the times. I'm sure this advice or suggestion is very valuable not only concerning art galleries managers,art collectors,artlovers,fans,family,friends,web designers,art critics,art reporters,art issues in general,but also for emerging artists and even top artists,for it happens Antonio Pessoa right now is entirely involved handling and managing several very interesting projects,a process of global art expansion,increasing in size,range,volume,voice,public and scope,in which the artist,art expert and art mediator is basically excited in welcoming other contemporary artists in order to invite them to participate in one of the most fascinating operations of the nowadays art scene. By contacting Antonio Pessoa,either you're a gallery owner,art critic,art dealer,art collector or an artist,can turn out to be an open door to break on through to the other side and make part of a dynamic team,an area in which art expansion in every sense of the word,acts and operates as a supersonic jet. This situation exists and improves,growing more and more substantially solid,lively,stimulating and definitely enjoyable,rewarding and exciting. Antonio Pessoa's worldwide Project is right now focusing on so many interesting areas,that anyone skillfull enough,namely web designers,art dealers,art critics,writers,artists,public relations,etc,by contacting the artist they might as well be about to have indeed the Big Break of their lives.Give it a try and then let me know! Regardless his busy professional life,his daily art making performance,plus the hundreds of mails arriving into his inbox every week,Antonio Pessoa somehow manages to dedicate the breathless extra aftermidnight hours to reply to all of those from all over Europe and United States who contact him with interesting propositions,ideas,tips,critics,greetings,suggesti ons and even well designed projects just waiting for the right time and particularly for the right team to make them work,improve and succeed. So if you think you fit into this criteria I will require you to contact the artist as soon as you possibly can,for at the other side of the line very probably is the great opportunity you've been searching for too long now,all you need is a huge burning desire to be part of a wonderful team,Antonio Pessoa's Project, right now already a big united family of different trades,nacionalities and ethnic origins. For the past three years artist Antonio Pessoa has been restlessly monitoring a multi-national group of happy and now prosperous collaborators developing mutual projects and in so doing,engineering common links and relationships,aiming to create more and more each and every day a global partnership,a striking network,secure and satisfied in the increasing potential of Antonio Pessoa's well informed,organized and most importantly,amazing high quality program. Have you ever been searching for the answers to life's greatest questions? Perhaps you have been looking to find them in the books that you've read,the people that you talk to and the movies that you've watched.You've probably found bits of the puzzle here and there but maybe,just maybe,you still can't put it all together or get to the essence. Well,Antonio Pessoa has the most awesome Project you would probably ever come across in your life.Fact. Therefore,by contacting the artist,you are about to unlock all the doorways to creating everything you ever wanted in life. Please,do allow yourself to learn all about the key step of creativity,well- being,satisfaction,fullfillment and success. Antonio Pessoa's universal flow,governs a Project in motion through a totally effortless way just by mastering the art of being surrounded by his gifted collaborators,living the perfect lifestyle and the rewarding fullfilling experience of acquiring happiness and success through a art Project indeed born to win! As time goes by and the World keeps going round and round there in an on-going happening called international art scene in which the artist fits like a whale surfing in the Pacif Ocean. To contact Antonio Pessoa is entering as by magic,a dimension of energy,great entrepeneurism,creativity and New Age vision focusing on emphasize new talents and new skills on behalf of art expression,contemporary voice promotion and worldwide communication. The artist is humbly aware that his outstanding success and systematic achievements,both concerning his personal life and his professional artistic career,has been depending upon the valuable infrastructure of his closest collaborators,partners,friends,art critics and public in general. A new generation of communication wizards,as we know by now,,namely web designers,young art observers and writers,public relations and emerging artists. A brand-new study about to be published by the french art critic Pierre Fontanals,finds and shows us that the body of Antonio Pessoa's lifestyle is after all a well selected team,a dynamic natural human force permanently managing everything related with the artist's affairs,let alone the fact that each and every one of them is by now leading the wonderful,rewarding and stimulating life of those who have known to take the wise option of doing exactly what they are spontaneously meant to do,exactly what their natural skills have delivered them in character,efficiency,uniqueness,initiative taking,decisions making and even genius. To contact Antonio Pessoa,this volumetric internal combustion man,artist and communicator,is reaching the light source,the unit of energy,creativity,working togetherness,self- satisfaction and happiness. What else there is to know? Antonio Pessoa's worldwide project much more than an official institution is a Universal contemporary art based program with the implementation of a broad set of bodies,functions,a rather eclectic group of talented people accomplishing specific aims by carrying into effect new ideas,a new outlook of life and therefore inevitably providing brand-new and refreshing practical means for the international art scene public reputation and worldwide projection enhancement. The new Art Genesis concerning Pessoa's lifestyle,solid beliefs and Project,sustains the elegant image of an open book available for the absolute believers,the bright side viewers,the fine human support vessel flowing towards the fast paced growing process of extending the New Age screen resolution with the intuitive- reflective polarizer brightness bound to display new concepts,formulas,positive solutions to local artistic environments,however preferably in the process to convert the hazy international art scene into a first priority commitment status in the worldwide general public's perception and even excitement. The brumuous world art labyrinth,that foggy landscape of blurred outlines,gains a new projection,a new interconnecting dynamic flow plus an easy going,easy digest path and vision and perspective for art lovers,art collectors and worldwide public,once Antonio Pessoa's universal team have decided and are actually fully determined to give contemporary art a high international public ranking,from Madrid to London,from Barcelona to New York,from Chicago to Los Angeles,from Paris to Berlin and maybe one day from Cape Canaveral right up to the Moon! Art expression will fly over to a universal public understanding and genuine passionate involvement,far beyond the obsolete orbit of art scene past decades desintegrated trademark. Furthermore,if you ever contact Antonio Pessoa,coming up with new ideas,clever suggestions and preferably with a well designed speech or statement,you might as well become pretty soon pleasantly surprised and truly amazed by how your life is about to change in such a drastic manner,quickly turning out to be the unexpected fate's gift you probably even haven't dreamt of or if you did have then,voilà,it's just about time your dream actually come true. The artist's worldwide communication links have become in the past three years a awesome eclectic talented people community and indeed also a online dynamic creative network. To contact Antonio Pessoa is basically relocating a new focus into an art space strictly related to transforming valuable random details into upcoming events. Through the artist's art expression export- oriented iniciative,via email or self service application,you are about to enter a well organized concept of innovation designed to provide an ambitious voice managing to establish a rather energetic communication tool in order to create a short term-long term relationship between contemporary art and public. Pessoa's groundbreaking global keys,shared by talented players from all over the world gathering to perform their skills the best way they know how in the same stage of this unique,original and fascinating experience,transforming new ideas into impact action and thereby improving art,culture and universal themes and in so doing,reaching the international art lovers community,encouraged to dine,digest and discover a new depth of sense making in the powerful features of today's contemporary art. Fast and effective,Antonio Pessoa's worldwide club,succeeds transforming public suspicion into authenticated admiration and genuine contemporary- oriented motivation right at that connecting point of mutual genuine chemistry where art expression finally manages to transduce bright and exciting new changes occurring on the highest level of the infinite and flexible contemporary communication experience. Incredible as it seems but entirely true this intense communication fluxus flow created,produced,directed by the artist,and wisely maintained by a reliable supreme team of well inspired,heartfelt and motivated collaborators,for one reason or another or even for all the good excellent positive reasons in the world,anyway,fact is they are all willing to herald a New Era of healthy,reciprocal celebration and a systematic broad cumplicity between art and public. Antonio Pessoa today,much more than a contemporary fine art veteran artist,is a man who puts a whole great amount of effort,extra time and even sacrifice in order to make this wonderful dream come true. A Voice telling the whole world to make way for creative gallery owners,web designers,public relations,renowned and emerging artists,art dealers,art curators,publishers,editors,art reporters,art critics,corporate clients,art lovers,art scene observers,art collectors,tourists,progressive thinkers,contemporary poets,movie directors,free enthusiasts,celebrities,drifters,beggars and rolling stones,inventive teenagers plus intuitive believers,actors,musicians,writers,adventurers and many others... Antonio Pessoa's worldwide club making art expression face the crowd,dressed up as macro transformers,converting contemporary progressive language into its expansion,reflecting today's aspect of concreteness and importance of this universal message,if you wish,shall we say a function well defined and looking forward to get fast a new breeze of spontaneous feedback results. Antonio Pessoa's artland is by now a loud and clear voice freely advancing in a remarkable worldwide performance in order to make art literature reach a substancial statistical significance in the sum of all upcoming excited art lovers and hopefully potential art collectors. Pessoa's eclectic group of collaborators is a real believers crowd,a motion stage in which everyone has indeed the legitimate right to the freedom of opinion and personal preferences. This active philosophical grounding however mainly based on cultural universal communication,embraces and drives an impressive vehicle of updated notions,concepts and processes,overlooking an emphasis of new values,possibilities,human development alongside the vigorous expansion of contemporary awareness as art expression flourishes and finally conquers for good the spotlighted top of the hill it definitely deserves. One of the most remarkable aspects of Antonio Pessoa's personality is his well-developed capacity to bring out in the open the very best in everyone's potential,just by turning on a results-oriented communication searching formula,plus an effective improvement exercise which sparks and generates not only self- confidence but actually produces a working - sharing full commitment compromise enhancement and a growing deep understanding of the inner abilities and therefore the next step which consists in bringing them up,out and into practical life and productive flow. In addition,Pessoa's method explores the dynamics of technical capacity building in developing interesting ideas and projects,definitely one of the reasons the artist has indeed effortlessly conquered the hearts of many of his now collaborators consequently generating and provide them with a well motivated attitude and response plus a natural sense of emergency in order to confront specific and punctual complex situations related to the same shared experienced and project,just as it should happen in any united community facing new challenges on a daily basis and focused on accomplishing difficult breathtaking tasks bound to quickly achieve ambitious goals. All put together and particularly throughout the past three years,the artist managed to create a wide community of talents,plus a reliable amount of regular fans,namely art collectors,a faithful upper class clientele and art buyers who have seen not only fine art quality and plenty of spicy inventiveness but also a fascinating artistic project know how in which they believe,participate,promote and invest. From a general point of view this phenomenon could be seen and interpreted as another ephemeral lucky stike,a fugacious blossoming enthusiasm or a passing fancy. None of that,whatsoever. Antonio Pessoa's contemporary project has gained step by step the profound trust of many independent art dealers,art lovers who right now are entirely persuaded of the astonishing potential of the artist's oeuvre and furthermore well aware of its historic weight and infinite relevance in today's contemporary art scene and surely in tomorrow's international reputation. An accurate prediction and consequently a wise assumption underlining Antonio Pessoa's project evolution as a paradigmatic model of an infinite- range contemporary fine art worldwide new concept and equation. Antonio Pessoa New Solutions New Solutions,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,apparently a chromaticity celebration,a brave new world for the eye view,brilliant,joyous like a birthday cake,apparently a warm display of colors wavelengths,a broad range carnival of intuitive related shapes,circles and emotional motion spectrums,ski jumping on top of the canvas space,apparently a glaring vivid and graphic sensationalism spitting lurid contortionist details,ejecting substances like a Hollywood motion pictures earthquake,releasing seismic waves of shocking colors with no particular focus or hypocenter. Apparently a friendly web of happy combinations flowing and interconnecting like beaded bra straps,a dizzying visual whirling revolution,sprinting backwards,onwards and upwards,through the ruins of a wonderland of desconstruction,like a networking impact of exuberant misconceptions,bioplastics and beyond,icecream notions,obfuscation,cool recycling,windpower,climate changes,fuel cells,just plain crazy moods,plastic crosswords puzzle,miscellaneous conversions,polychromic radiations,awesome undefined features,apparently a mixed media Circus of pop stylings,suspension performances and Divine Madness! Entering Antonio Pessoa's Home Studio,one immediately feels the urgency to recover from the outside world and pass through into another dimension of timeless time,universal perception,glam lifestyle and even outstanding decoration. A large collection of canvases hanging on the labyrinthic corridors web walls.The silent bystanders remain quiet and silent as part of the musical whispering sound of silence softly playing in the almost romantic medieval interior design. It seems as if though I am the only genuine curious spectator as I take a seat in front of the recent masterpiece titled New Solutions. Not many explanations required as far as I'm concerned,me,an humble expert on Pessoa's oeuvre to get the instant message and feel of the whole artwork. The almost non participant artist moves about gently providing me with some,well,classified information concerning his private life and sensorial latest discoveries and achievements.Valuable tips to helpme to make out the deep meaning of the painting and therefore to be able to actually come up with a quite reasonable objective understanding. Did I say Objective? Well,yes,in a manner of speaking... NEW SOLUTIONS involves as much mystery and philosophical depth aspiring to a neo surrealistic level of argumentative sophistication,as a novel,reflecting and offering a riveting plot,flowing plastic prose and visual poetry,intense although serene conflicts and cinematic surprise happy ending.Just a considerable whole amount of conceptual braincrunching the viewer has to go through in order to read and consequently interpret. The artistic power with which Pessoa reveals his emotional temperament,conclusions,plus all methaphysics manifesting introductory impressive questions,and raising thrilling doubts in terms of groundbreaking and provocative cinematography,has forced the artist to urgently solve the puzzle and thereby come up once again with his scoring self-interview capacity and gift waking up all of a sudden with the infinite awareness,great clarity grace...and New Solutions. NEW SOLUTIONS is after all Antonio Pessoa starting from the scratch after a summertime season of relaxed meditation and systematic reflexion,now borning again from the ashes like Phoenix,an astronaut returning to the Moon and then taking aim at Mars,which might as well be Berlin,Basel,New York City,Madrid,Chicago,Paris or even maybe,just maybe,when nothing seems to matter much anymore concerning his art career,but to be safe and sound in the cool winter of Marbella or in his favorite studio in San Antonio,Ibiza. After a calm lengthy intent consideration,a likeness in which left and right are reversed,a careful consideration over so many beams and rays,it's only natural that the wonderful phenomenon of a propagating wave of light and discernment has once again been thrown back from the inner subconsciousness to the sharp awareness of a wide open window overlooking a New Solutions field. No wonder Antonio Pessoa's contemporary fine art has become more and more a very accurate mirror of the world surrounding us,where new solutions are after all the holistic approach breaking down the barriers between strategic thinking,creative thinking and the desire for a better and far brighter future. Antonio Pessoa writes the A B C of quality living,with the heartfelt honesty of a gentle giant of fine art,,who knows,maybe as a New Century preface,at the request of his own humanitarian beliefs. The modern master after seeking new solutions has indeed found new steps towards the highest level of creative insight plus the expertise of meaningful living,completing his eclectic capabilities also by delivering a New Planet of contemporary fine art New Solutions. Coming out of the closet for a brave new world of artistic innovations not necessarily as a new solution but as Antonio Pessoa's worldwide known tradition.

ART REVIEWS

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Antonio Pessoa

Art Reviews

Antonio Pessoa Trial by Fire Once again the artist delivers the ultimate thrill,as we all look genuinely awestruck before one more It's Hard to Believe sort of challenge,through which the art creator's puzzling experiments insist in preparing us yet for another public Watchout session.Fair enough. What is this all about,after all,you may ask.Let me explain. Commited himself to the achievement os self- development all areas highest levels,Antonio Pessoa combines information...or should I say,Knowlrdge ...from multiple resources,thereby getting instant access to this fascinating dimension of living magic and most importantly to this highly effective mind power multilateral expertise. Emerging across all the information available,the artist's determination and traditional straightforwardness seem to be once again tough enough to track the whole of this advanced tutorials,leaving us to absolutely expect the upcoming high-impact all this wisdom structure and mastery are going to have in his private life,art performance,lifestyle and most importantly in his public projection,as the paradigmatic entrepreneur artist of our times and obviously as the new generation great communicator. Getting ready to indeed operate a daring new artistic enterprise and worldwide venture,Pessoa inevitably assumes a great deal of accountability for the inherent risks,setbacks,stand bys,ins and outs and general obstacles,definitely a scary process ( not for all ) where getting accurate valuable advice and cutting edge information never seems to be enough in the new start-up stage of his current and coming soon king-sized challenges where sharing his responsibilities and vision with his collaborators international team definitely requires a proficiently advanced How- To immediate decision making skills,where his mind tools productive effectiveness will be unquestionably on Trial by Fire! Taking a good look at the tools,modus operandi,and processes Antonio Pessoa continually uses in his rich and colorful day to day life,we helplessly can't resist to get a glimpse into the artist's life latest news,always expecting the next episode to be far more striking and exciting than the ones before. People from all over Europe and United States write to me telling us they indeed do spend a lot of time researching and reading about the artist's methods,deliciously grabbed and entertained by how he systematically manages to get off to a new blazing start just about to a always unexpected new series of brilliant and satisfying conclusions,as one of the art scene world's most unique,amusing and amazing on-going profiles. The extent to which Pessoa exhibits various and interesting characteristics,provides us with sufficient visibility to fully understand his increasing degree of positive exposure to public notice.Fact. Therefore,extinguishing the fire with a calm spell seems to be right now the hardest accomplishment for anyone within the artist's friends circle. Besides,anyway,nobody seems to have no reasons to actually wish that to happen. Slowly but surely turned on by the tempting idea of living feeling today everything is possible,even his wildest dreams,Antonio Pessoa uses his mind's full potential to wish things to happen and surprise,surprise,fact is that then they actually do. However there is after all the secret,the special trick,which enables the artist to deal with challenges he has to face,by astonishingly quadrupling his vision,knowledge,meeting the goal achievement proper balance with his traditional rock-solid determination to make the seemingly impossible a now-reality. Sensitive,selective,fast and accurate,the artist faithfully keeps on following a truly effective method,which unfortunately for most of us,strange as it seems,remains a one million dollars secret! No doubt Pessoa must have enough good reasons to have entitled this painting "Trial by Fire ".Pure abstract art,caughts the eye of the viewer,regardless the message or meaning,however as we all become more and more familiarized with the content-intent of this particular artwork,which is after all,and most important of all,the mirror reflecting the powerful heart and soul of a life veteran sort of artist,once again stubbornly committed to change his mind's orientation,a current challenging issue which has clearly shown itself to be by now a striking method both proficient and highly effective in all areas and in every step of the way. Banking on proving to himself and to the world that beyond the boundaries of conscious self- evaluation,of conscious global awareness,there is an endless wealthy empire of possibilities,we so very often can't make out,lost through our own mismanagement of our own inner potential scenario,Antonio Pessoa records in " Trial by Fire " the expanded universe available to anyone willing to spend a reasonable full time research aiming at reaching a level of global expertise,the fuel of a dynamic and happy life,wealthy innovations and new ways of viewing the world through self-growth,after all the magical counselling therapy providing a lucid,original and effective practical guide to how accomplish our most cinematic dreams taking off from the deep valuable resources of our inner mind. "Trial by Fire" definitely doesn't pretend to suggest doubt about this high-efficiency method,however clearly points out that the golden results basically depend on absolute true passion,daily focusing,solid motivation,a patient step by step mind fitness plan,an increasing magnitude unbreakable perspective and a whole lot of multiple positive intentions,the ultimate goal setting made easy. Pessoa couldn't have chosen a better title for this mountains beyond mountains of research and observation endless miles and miles and miles to cross,climb and crawl,indeed a Trial by Fire,engaged in fierce emotional tournaments and daring journeys bound to where the glowing pot is placed,solving ancient mysteries hidden in plain sight from our perception,knowledge and wise mindset awareness. This painting once again rises an impressive new set of questions. First and most important of all,is Antonio Pessoa going to pass this stiff examination entitled "Trial by Fire"? We all believe he will,despite also acknowledging that arriving safe and sound at the shining palace at the end of the long and winding road,it's not going to be a twelve minute extravaganza of boiling fun. A mission impossible or a successful accomplishment? I would rather emphasize a mission accomplishment as an already now-reality fact,running like a well-oiled machine. However the big challenge is out there,waiting for an artist willing to be playing with fire,by the book and by the rules,a free trial available for anyone,nevertheless a tough enough match only the brave players can undertake when it comes the time to jump into the titanic overwhelming arena of the Trial by Fire! Antonio Pessoa Burning Flame Feeding his concept of Masterpiece,the magnificent life guide,the inner creative aqueduct running as a video game,allowing the proper context of effective thought turn into a luminous landscape of rewarding reality,where the weaponry of imagination,plays a rather important role,basically it's all there is to have in order to accomplish the wildest dreams,Antonio Pessoa's burning flame is more than ever the action set for his passionate,vibrant and purposeful positive energy aiming at that pure unbridled ecstasy of personal success and at achieving goals,whatever they might be,like a magical inspiring huge fire wave around his heart and soul. Most important of all,Pessoa effortlessly keeps his flame burning in every possible way as always,lighting up living fire and consequently he does have a lot of fun attracting the universe natural pulse while life easy does it,providing him with the hottest colors of desire,action and fullfilment. It's becoming more and more general well known fact that indeed Pessoa has obviously sunk to depths of self biographical fine art rituals nobody could ever imagined. His long- standing relationship with art studio intensive performance step by step,year after year,as time goes by,made him to become more focused and dedicated to catch up with his inner self,thereby coming up with a growing prominent attitude,genuine interest and commited on-going research concerning a light speed development philosophy of life oriented process meking him take on more truthful art expression moves and skills than ever before. BURNING FLAME, acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007, is definitely a paradigmatic witness of this continuous and growing emotional life observing giving him impressive motivational lectures of the mind's science,thereby empowering his current oeuvre to promote an outstanding wide profile of human nature,including himself. Burning Flame,apart from its inner emotional content along with its direct association with the source of Pessoa's intensive self- discovery,establishes once again the latest visual language through which the artist puts special emphasis on a metaphorically oriented feeling of immense art expression freedom,in the whole essence,idea,concept and visual impact. Antonio Pessoa's vivid and emotional understanding of reality externalises its inner world onto the world of pure abstract nature,where the principles of aesthetics,apart from their intrinsic interest,introduce a new depth of feelings guided through clearly instructed methods of conceptual art making,sequences where the multiple abstract images in contrast to a unique mixture of colors creates a lyric-dynamic plastic architecture,underscoring a clear-cut inherent richness and an exuberant variety of meanings,eroticized sensuality,almost living visual patterns,providing the viewer with the possibility of an interpretation triplicity and an open access to all this emotional embodiment of art. Its design,layout and content makes Burning Flame unique and irresistible for the eye,for it is obvious that apart from its expressive value,the drawing plays an important communicative role,transparently symbolic,yet so abstractly described. Nevertheless,it's not only the painting's title or even the visual pleasant results pointing out that the artist's message merely suggests the Burning Flame meaning and idea. As a matter of fact Burning Flame might as well be interpreted as Antonio Pessoa's nature most reliable signature. The criterion used to give a specific title to each of his latest artworks is based on a very conceptual catalogue of attitudes,priorities and most importantly,beliefs. The truth is,Pessoa's genetic mechanism has provided the art creator not only with an impressive mental vital energy but also with an impressive outstanding imagination,delivering him exceptional results throughout his life up to now,such a remarkable innovative reasoning ability,creative communication skills and a first rate perception of cause and effect. The growing awareness of this golden God's gift,which has been his lifetime heart and soul of his punctual breath- taking accomplishments,explains the deep essence of this canvas titled Burning Flame,rather a token of humble gratitude than a temporary relation of superiority. Even the many harsh setbacks,critic situations and crushing times along the way didn't manage to generate enough negative power to break his solid as a rock determination and pro-life positive thinking,on the contrary,life's unexpected winds of changes and painful blackouts actually succeeded effectually in strengthening the potential of his emotional and mind armament,serving to mould the artist's character increasing its power at the expense of the inevitable downs and outs. 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. Antonio Pessoa Portrait Now What?Antonio Pessoa unpredictable as his reputation heralds,comes up with a rather mysterious canvas,somehow suddenly breaking away from the series of spiritual- oriented artworks he has been presenting lately. PORTRAIT,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,stands out of the artist's latest line of work,with a title and a touch of art expression reminding his late nineties oeuvre. Visiting Pessoa's studio in the first week of November precisely during the making of PORTRAIT,I asked him as politely as I possibly could what was going on.The artist sits in front of me and without any beating about the bush preambles,tells me he needed urgently to demystify someone we both knew,searching for logical evidence and accurate clues in order to explain through art expression and very particularly to himself the true nature and deep motivations of the eccentric character represented in PORTRAIT,his inherent complex of attributes plus his restless actions and reactions. Once identified Portrait's heart and soul,I'm quite sure the artist from that step on is having so much fun,now able and available to play the game,hanging out provided with the third vision of perception and thereby watching whoever is behind this abstract painting,articulating his focus and looking beyond the surface,deep,above and below,defenitely seeing a whole lot more than what any viewer eventually shall see whatever,whoever the image truly manifests and represents. Once again the superior mirage of the natural privilege of being an artist gives him probably the genuine right to keep a whole lot of secrets for himself,therefore the puzzling secrecy and identity of Portrait keeps the viewer asking the same old questions over and over again,and this premeditated cause and effect reaction manipulation is the typical modus- operandi of Antonio Pessoa's harmless playful moody games,when it comes to use art as his favorite tool in order to challenge the viewer's thoughtful and sometimes painful discernment process about how to actually approach a purposely ambiguous topic,randomly experiencing multiple assumptions and considering several aspects of an apparently faceless Portrait,particularly in this thrilling situation in which the artist provides no antidotes whatsoever for the viewer's ocular interpretation let alone navigate across the ocean of speculative exploring,and consequently come up at least with a dim light at the end of the tunnel after a meticulous eternity trying to figure out the artist's intentions,jumping at last to the twisted-grinning accurate conclusion that the hidden consistency of Portrait was from the very beginning meant for the artist to know and for the viewer to find out. More than a visual illusion,Portrait's equivocal,cryptic,enigmatic,"top secret" possibilities,incorporates key-references,trying and actually succeeding to provide the viewer with a superuniverse of infinite research tools,however in the meantime creating a mysterious traffic of visual tactics almost suggesting that the one meant to have been the inspiring model is pure imagination fiction,that the true meaning of this painting,maybe...just maybe,might as well still be under construction. Basically,all I could really do to help in the hope to cool the viewer's anxiety or make the viewer consider the evidence of no evidence at all,would possibly be to gently say "give it up and just sit,relax and enjoy it",for after all it seems to me quite obvious Portrait was indeed meant to be from the very beginning a conceptual artistic camouflage. A mystery Portrait,an artist's secret,revealing absolutely nothing but another interesting fine art riddle,a brain teaser double and veiled meaning composition,meant to puzzle the viewer and therefore a classified information artistic enigma never to be solved. Antonio Pessoa's juicy secret skillfully hidden perhaps behind the apparent empty spaces of the canvas,as if answering questions with odd questions,makes Portrait the traditional "maybe,maybe not" sort of inscrutable,obscure,even mystical sort of artistic disappearance,leaving no loose ends and leaving the anonymous portrayed one forevermore occult in the mystifying highest level of the world fine art nameless esoteric models Olympus. Antonio Pessoa Atlantis "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. Antonio Pessoa New Line 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! Antonio Pessoa Live ! 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! Antonio Pessoa Visual Arts Antonio Pessoa's latest artistic discoveries,mainly Holland based artists such as Peter Jansen,André Schweers,Robert Terwindt,Harrie Gerritz,Klaas Gubbels,Chris Berens,Emilio Kruithof,Dorien Plaat,Peter Schenk,Rob Scholte,Richard Smeets and surprise,surprise,even former dutch rock star Herman Brood,now coming up with amazing artworks,seem to have been the summarized inspiration for the making and conclusion of Visual Arts,acrylic on canvas,2007. Visual Arts is unquestionably about bringing out his admiration for an excellent selection of artists with enough art expression equivalencies with his new line of work. Antonio Pessoa is clearly proud to celebrate his new artistic discoveries from around the world,and very particularly Holland,by offering us a charming painting in the style and direction of his new artistic discoveries. At the same time as Pessoa describes analogous artistic formulas,he as always goes on and on convincingly making his new contemporary fine art claims all the more persuasive and globally significant. Genuinely interested in arts and specifically in other artists,Antonio Pessoa art performance with each turn encounters a substantial wide range of natural and spontaneous inspiration sources placing a strong emphasis on helping public,art lovers and art collectors,develop an easy going viewflow and deep understanding process that will definitely give them the necessary stimulus and new art vision to actually continue making their general interest grow with heightening heroism reaching the wise focus point where art creators and potential art collectors meet for a contemporary visual arts celebration,communication and neo-Renaissance. Back in business and falling into a fertile contemporary art formula,Antonio Pessoa in Visual Arts embraces and accomplishes the truly essential mode d'emploi to one of the most vibrant art expressions we are pleased to witness in the twenty first century's first decade. Here is the honest,emotional,intimate visual narrative of a passionate contemporary art explorer named Antonio Pessoa,as the outstanding master of creativity of today's art scene. Well focused on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature,adopting other artists talents as a tool,Antonio Pessoa not only becomes more and more an important reference but also a contemporary talisman to the current and upcoming art collectors worldwide community. Using almost academic content standards in Visual Arts,Pessoa nevertheless succeeds accomplishing the high point of visual transformations,registering striking new techniques,as a result of a wide knowledge,experience,talent and intuitive training,creating systematic visual keywords associations and thereby emphasizing new concepts of contemporary fine art,continuously exploring all possibilities for new answers,displaying new versions plus encouraging unexpected perspectives in perfect accordance with his advanced cultural viewpoint and therefore adressing an exciting pictography outreaching a privileged quality level from which he takes off to explore and nurture the relationship between contemporary visual arts and public. Contemporary and innovative,Pessoa's interior living fire designs and builds the opportunity for all of us to find and share a new stylish face of fine art cruise travel,so to speak. An artist-led not for finantial profit but to promote a genuine and heartfelt access to a brand- new art expression environment and universal profile,Antonio Pessoa's alternative research does actually afford one of the most exciting lines of contemporary wall art paintings so very much in tune with the new generation of art collectors demand,in the public realm and definitely in the significance of place and context of today's art scene most enjoyable and brightest side. Celebrating the here and now dynamic times,yet fully appreciated in the canon of traditional modern art,Antonio Pessoa actively collects a broad challenging range of formulas,mediums and languages,thereby curating a unique metaphoric imagery skillfully combined and extensively responding to the latest contemporary methodologies. VISUAL ARTS,making connections between fine art and other,shall we say,disciplines,leads us once again to the highest achievement of understanding the perfect sense and the inevitable relation between modern art History and contemporary culture. Pessoa's conceptual innovations and their role in the making of his New Era creative expression stamp now through the Timeless Time Art Collection,leads us and takes us to an advanced level of sharp interesting references in all areas of what contemporary art is actually meant to be and furthermore to become.A new curriculum of suggestions,identifying knowledge and broad communication resources,even a new artistic education global reform,something which is being sought as an urgent potential of new ideas along with thousands of other supporting worldwide shared motivations and priorities,specifically and very particularly given that the connection lines between artists,art galleries and art collectors or even public in general have now reached a no way back universal consensus where the correlation after all has turned out to be a whole creative trading community,in shared content,interests,events,in the thinking critically process,the now and next generation engine already expecting a new course of influence,outlook,an art performance incorporated in the new values of quality,visual poetry,demonstrating how current lifestyle,today's world times,culture and visual arts can influence each other in making the abstract yet simplified manner of global perfect togetherness actually come true,safe and sound,for good. VISUAL ARTS,the untroubled kingdom of abstract reason,a land of intuitive make-believe,a motion pictures domain of contemporary discourse,here is where we enter the region of art magic by the hands,mastery and imagination of Antonio Pessoa's cosmic realm. Pure art color magic,one of the most exciting fantasy delivery by the mastery of an artist who keeps on showing the world how to draw patterns,use color and select dynamic fine art ,improving enormously his artistic speech,language skills,all so well combined in order to provide a rich and rewarding continuous evolution to contemporary art expression,characterized by a liberal amount of out in the open emotions,when apparently the first visual impact is that of a circus of decoration spread throughout the canvas. VISUAL ARTS,projects clearly Antonio Pessoa's current artistic speech and in so doing is granting a vast array of interactive communication,the abstract yet symbolic visualization of an increasing concept of emotional freedom according to the artist's commited interest at the heart of his daily investigations into the fascinating mind exploring related issues. An Installation on canvas,perhaps,why not,rich in transition art sentences along with a highly communicative dance code of intentions and multiple directions where unquestionably deliberate guidelines pertaining to freedom of artistic expression succeed to project outwards with as much literate wisdom sense as pure conventional verbal speech. Antonio Pessoa comes up with Visual Arts through his almost exclusive free-the-thought process,playing by the rules,yet breaking the boundaries both concerning his private life and his artistic performance. Successful mirrors reflecting the faithful expression of his most spiritual period up to now. Not a painter who paints what he sees,Pessoa paints his deepest emotional portrait,a reliable window open to his inner world,definitely,however in the meantime an open golden gate to the art lovers worldwide community. A significant third vision eye overlooking the public diversity,the art of communication most daring adventure offering hints and tips about getting and spreading emotional and living emancipation around,almost as a holy priority,an original retrospective of wise conclusions and stand by hanging in the air doubts,written with painting brushes in a mystical abstract manner,however magically succeeding to make apparent structural aesthetic choices,options and ideas break through the invisible glass of silence and provide a new approach by somehow capturing the three- dimensional voice of effective universal communication. Antonio Pessoa's eyesight and awareness are well reflected in Visual Arts,as it has been brightly posted in his latest artworks and it certainly will follow this very same communication level throughout his upcoming art productions. Seeing the world through an artist eyes never seemed to be such an easy-to-do process as when one eventually comes across Pessoa's recent oeuvre precisely just about to witness beyond the special effects screen the presence of the magical windows overlooking the transcendental landscape of vibrant energy,revealing feelings,emotions,concepts and ideas on the cutting edge of contemporary art expression as in the vision and imagery of Visual Arts. Art Metaphors,collage and mixed media on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,apart from its delicious visual impact,is a result of a systematic research across the art scene worldwide universe,with a great help from his two collaborators,Luis Santiago and Pierre Fontanals,two updated art experts and two excellent art critics as well. Since 2003,Pessoa by then already living in Barcelona,becomes more and more interested and consequently familiarized not only with the current on-going art events but also with the so called modern masters and very particularly with the contemporary top artists plus the most dynamic art galleries mainly in Europe and United States. From then on the artist gradually deletes the old influences,namely the overloaded figurative items of the past waya from his canvases and watercolors landing in the 2005 New Era field with a totally contemporary abstract new line. Despite the well know fact pure abstract fine art has always been punctually present throughout the nineties,onlu in the twenty first century comes the time when he at last broke up with the explicit human representations for good,becoming a symbol of advanced contemporary art status and identity by creating a new visual arts body of new idewas,an interesting and well expressed studio cooking where logical conjunctio has been skillfully overtaken by a strongly communicative art projection style. Antonio Pessoa's successful puzzling recent artworks leave no doubt of the exciting art language switch opening new windows overlooking bright colorful fields of spacious a light new possibilities of contemporary fine art. Wassily Kandinsky's abstract sensorial magnificence and invention richness has always been Antonio Pessoa's strongest reference and influence concerning linear abstract art lyricism ever. Paintings such as Improvisation 31 ( Sea Battle) from 1913,Black Spot,Yellow-Red-Blue,oil on canvas from 1925,shown at the Musée National D'Art Moderne,Centre Pompidou,Paris;Painting with White Border now belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection,among many others masterpieces by the russian painter,had a great impact on Pessoa's early abstract first experiences helping him realize that supreme art expression doesn't necessarily need to be represented by figurative human or specific object sources in order to establish a profound perspective on communication and meaning in the pursuit of the ability to reach the viewer's deep understanding of the artist's linguistic. Therefore it seems only natural that it doesn't take too long before Antonio Pessoa fully accepts and consequently adopts Wassily Kandinsky as the undeniable abstractionism pioneer of modern art and his most reliable model of non- objective compositions of the twentieth century's global art scene. Pessoa in his determined desire to convey emotional or expressive feelings and ideas without reliance upon or reference to reconizable objective forms already existing in reality,goes on throughout the years maintaining this unbreakable faithful connection with other abstract modern masters such as Richard Anuszkiewicz-one of the founders and foremost exponents of Op Art-Joan Miró's optical changes,motion configurations and high-intensive colors,the portuguese Paris-based Vieira da Silva,Peters Graham and at last but not the least,of course,Jackson Pollock. Although theoretically Antonio Pessoa's Romantic Period was over and out for good in the year 2002,during the next two years,2003- 2004,already settled in Barcelona,according to accurate facts the artist keeps on reporting the same aesthetic content both in his artworks on canvas and watercolors. Basically only in the year 2005 he definitely breaks up with the old traditional fine art standardized patterns,something now regarded as a perceptual last conclusion of his past studio performance and the stand by period of reflection,a calm lengthy intent consideration time where propagating beams and rays of a new wave of art vision began to surpass and out do the old art expression concepts,thereby making way for an amazing new line of progressive contemporary fine art excelling in colors,motion,visual impact and communication. Therefore,throughout this aesthetics concept switch process,Antonio Pessoa's favorites proceeds in a circle of pure abstract artists,both the great modern masters pioneers and the latest contemporary avant-garde. The meaningful whole according to Pessoa's new perspective of what art vision today must be leads him to a determinant continuous judgment and evaluation concerning a widescreen of the on- going variety of creative talents,living entity parallels within his now prototyping selection suggesting the future of contemporary fine art. Antonio Pessoa and his closest collaborators and assistants approach art galleries with growing curiosity learning on a daily basis with genuine transparency the outs and abouts of current abstract art patterns totally disconnecting from the old figurative symbols and entirely integrated within the colorful screen which embody the latest parameters of contemporary visual arts. One of these graphic significant examples is Galerie Beeldkracht represented artist Koos Smit colorful wilderness fine art excursions,a perfect inspiration for Pessoa's general perception of his artworks new line.Koos Smit comes up as an excellent source providing multiple ideas and possibilities,a well placed bookmark in his favorites directory. Also represented by Galerie Beeldkracht,Vania Pentcheva's dynamics and shapes in our environment oriented artworks,grabbed Antonio Pessoa's attention at first sight,raising his excitement level to the point of considering immediately Vania Pentcheva's artworks as a contemporary fine art first rate nominee and a good magic fuel for him and for all the nowadays worldwide art scene young talents. Pierre Fontanals gives me a ring before Christmas on behalf of Antonio Pessoa asking me to take a look at the Alphan Gallery home page and check these artists out. Chris Burnside and Jennifer Burbank. From his words I immediately knew Pessoa had discovered another artist of his fancies. Next day I entered Alphan Gallery's website and there he was,Chris Burnside amazing juxtapositions taking little flights in a unique pleasant dreamy way. I understood right away why Antonio Pessoa was so enthusiastic about this one. The short but quality collections of Alphan Gallery also presenting Jennifer Burbank,were widely obvious to indeed had become part of Pessoa's preferences and I should be safe in saying particularly Chris Burnside had that kind of magic in his artistic speech Antonio Pessoa simply adores,for his current art concept had long become for me as clear as a cloudless sky. Pessoa after dipping his toe in the colorful pool of contemporary abstract fine art actually adopted a pleasing way of making solid sure there is no way back. Antonio Pessoa's paradigmatic view of a new reality,much more than a purely theoretical level of a New Era of contemporary art expression,forces us to admit a prevailing new ideology of artistic and emotional answers,a meaningful consensual dialog between science and creativity.This means that he has developed a live vision of a new world of effortless communication through fine art,now beyond the limitations of figurative art by entering a totally empirical interpretation of reality through abstract constructivism splitting his fantasy between an impressive collection of references,preferences and multiple influences. ART METAPHORS shows us a perfect interior world where the importance of art as a powerful communication tool,provides infinite possibilities by establishing an intimate relationship between the artist and the worldwide public. Moreover,Antonio Pessoa's art of traveling across many of the emerging contemporary artists concepts illustrates an image of a remarkable interaction,a genuine interest in what's goin on,a sharing good natured open-minded commitment to other artists talent and work. MIND EXPLORER,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,comes up basically at the very same time as the artist once again decides to turn his whole life into a wonderful Masterpiece. Pessoa keeps on surprising us all with his brilliant unexpected resources,always as an immediate response to firefight the art scene wildfire plus the hurricane changes of life's natural unpredictable aspects,reacting wisely and punctually to the systematic rain of daily new circumstances,dilemmas and decision taking scenarios aiming for the steady high-efficient capacity to know with amazing high-precision what is the right thing to do,at the right place,at the right time. Antonio Pessoa's reknown remarkable mind content knowledge for practical,intuitive and philosophical reasoning,provides him with a solid cognitive ability to absolutely enjoy the privilege of depending upon his own high quality critical thinking permiting him a fast introduction,automated inner Mind - inner Self inspection and consequently a skillful almost effortless self-improvement once this repeatable reasoning process is on and going running at silent supersonic speed,thereby generating a well advanced preferences,answers and bright solutions logical- emotional tracking subsequently summarizing the gigantic complex whole mitigating it to a digestible compositional model and methodology,an easy-to-use toolbar for great decision quality optimization. MIND EXPLORER,a faithful product of the latest sequence of contemporary art expression reflecting healthy and positive ideals,a seties of charming paintings after all an interesting and hopefully historic biographical profile of the artist's persistent emotional intelligence experiments and serious Mind explorations,shows us and makes us witness a daring,appealing self- guided adventure in the fascinating deep and wide idealof global perception,a friendly art expressed clearly suggesting a new twist and most importantly a multi dimensional performance in the Mind-Body machine interaction. It's quite obvious by now Pessoa's serious approach to the inner Mind language and infinite powerful resources,let alone the art action in motion publishing on canvas one of the most original art collections and genuine reports of the artist's intimate nature,feelings and viewing so far as a matter of fact. Pessoa's latest explorations in the realm of Mind have been unquestionably providing him with a well driven biofeedback potential,amazing public,art lovers and gallerists with this colorful,abstract and contemporary avant-gardish cognitive neuroscience artistic new look. Antonio Pessoa beams us all up with his Mind spaceflights he so skillfully can turn into lovely lively art expression delicious visual games and color motion projection curated by excellent taste,style,ongoing research and at last presenting us fascinating new windows into our outlook of contemporary fine art. Elegible enough the solid determination focused on a straightforward pursuit after the inner secrets of the Mind and its subsequent rewarding feedback,the big thrill is undoubtedly the already current speculation over the fair enough topic question of how long is the artist going to keep steady on the Mind exploration track and therefore how long is this charming and original art collection going to follow this very same aesthetic line proposed by the artist's ongoing integral methodologies in the development of the Mind's visual design and its effective high- performance both in his personal,social,professional life and naturally in his art productions. Despite Pessoa's undeniable commitment to this highlyrecommended issue,the present method for generating sharp inner Mind perception,awakening spontaneously new formulas of visual arts delights...the unpredictable long-term fluctuations are intrinsically a potential threat to this wonderful period the artist is going through. Times they are a-changing and surely Antonio Pessoa isn't immune to this unavoidable everlasting worldwide universal phenomenon,nevertheless the carrying signs of a serious affair with the discovery of the Truth through this effective emotional intelligence developing process,seem to me to be already a firnly established no surrender,no retreat,no turning back consistent enough motivation for all of us to believe in the growing intensiveness of this human creative potential already giving birth to Antonio Pessoa'as most happy,friendly,cool and interesting artworks series up to now,plus the evidence already suggesting with deserved credibility the artist's Mind discovery mainstream personal riveting achievements and rewards. MIND EXPLORER,definitely an impressive title for an easy digest abstract contemporary painting,might however turn out to become a historic symbol,for the powerful inspiration root behind the canvas space,moreover for its solid predictive value related to the artist's coming up times. One way or another,one day or another,but most important of all Antonio Pessoa makes sure the Show must go on,dressed up with a surprising brand-new transparent honesty as an artist and a stainless law-abiding citizen of the world,let alone his daily updated human values,a great combination indeed,a great symbolic period establishing a significant irreconcilable difference between the past and today's vibrating artistic and human higher standards. On the whole,MIND EXPLORER reports a magical Mind incorporated analytical search engine generating and endless display of revealing motion pictures where the metaphysical meanings dance away to the sound of silence with global awareness,expanding wisdom content,flowing,growing and incredibly high reaching the so expected point where everything makes perfect sense...even in a racing world where divine madness seems to be taking over. When Pessoa paints a canvas such as MIND EXPLORER,he knows what he is talking about,now it's really up to you to render an accurate interpretation through a natural effortless diagnosis simply relying on cognition,intuition or even processing curiosity in order to fully understand the fine art original message,soul and beyond. Most importantly,MIND EXPLORER should and actually can be after all a highly advanced daily ritual and a lifetime positive experience for all of us! Antonio Pessoa Intuition Something like the "Pinball Wizard" song,performed by the english band The Who,however not quite so,fine art wizard Antonio Pessoa comes up with Intuition,acrylic on canvas,2007,expressing a perspective of what talent in real life is all about. When a lukewarm action leading role isn't definitely an option in the world we live in,whatsoever,particularly if one is facing overwhelming challenges plus a continuous and peculiar on-going urgent demands from art dealers and art collecters,moreover with no immediate alternative to,shall we say,reduce daily-weekly professional priorities...Intuition at its highest top level comes up as an absolutely required science.Fact. Always literally punctual and wisely convenient about his latest artworks as a systematic direct reaction method in which is extremely skillfully and witty published under art expression articles,a positive attitude and a very well situated response towards smiling happy or earthquake-prone circumstances plus unexpected heart trembling feedbacks,Pessoa's special sharp interpretation of the global time frame allows him to use contemporary art as a reliable reflector of his well focused observing opinion,emotional waves and general perception.That's what art nowadays is all about...or must I say...at least it should be. So,once again,everything seems to make perfect sense concerning the artist's truthful grown-up posture which is a breath of fresh air in today's overstocked propaganda-oriented racing emerging academic artists miscellaneous ways to cash off any local art scene,the best way they know how. Antonio Pessoa's personal success reports a substantial cool as cool can be sort of wholesome contemplative profile connected to the world by playing juggling balls with faqs and answers,playing by the rules but most importantly playing by Intuition. Personal News travel fast,therefore Pessoa is the first one to become aware that the most reliable source to come up with an accurate statistical measurement of his own Intuition amperage,is actually himself. So no wonder we are now able to have the visual and emotional privilege of here and now stand before a charming painting titled Intuition. Antonio Pessoa's 2007 artworks definitely show us a man,an artist going through an exciting and prodigious period of self-discovery,Mind research and emotional improvement. This instinctive knowing without the use of special resoning processes,still a rare gift possessed by only a few,is well explicit in this artwork on canvas,apart from its abstract quality the concept's fingerprints are all over the art space,a mirror reflecting and reporting this fascinating inner guidance tool,Pessoa and his higher self sharing with all of us his field of new found information beyond the bounds of space and time and consequently getting back to the heart of the public as he moves out of static coherence in order to increase the unfoldment of Intuition. Anyway,Intuition,the painting and all its meaningful symbolic abstract neo-surrealistic content is after all a part of Antonio Pessoa's current concept named FREE. This reference identified and directly related to the artist's contemporary art expression evolution,which is by itself the communicating mirror of great inner personal achievements,a unique experience profile conducting his qualities and skills towards such a magnificent supreme level of steadfast self- improvement,right now still too premature to predict the extent of this challenging mission and the outcome general effects of this daring remarkable emotional attitude plus odyssey. As for right now,that's the big thrill and the spicy mystery,for not even Pessoa is able to actually realize beforehand just how long it's going to take for him to accomplish a reasonable high degree of this fascinating dream,nor is he still able to foresee the depth level at stake let alone the probable wonderful possibilities,fulfilling and rewarding consequences of all this self-psychotherapy chemistry. The general perspective is obviously excellent and on the whole and most importantly,sure thing Antonio Pessoa's Intuition is bound to lead him safe and sound to the sunny place he profoundly feels and deeply believes he belongs to.Freedom! However...hold your horses,Ladies and Gentlemen,not quite so fast.Great goals take time to accomplish and overcoming life's adversities one by one takes a great deal of energy accompanied with a whole lot of patience and resistance. As the artist practises self-control he approximates more and more to this magical inward kingdom,and is less and less swayed by passion and grief,pleasure and pain, and lives a steadfast and virtuous life,manifesting manly strength and fortitude,in art performance,personal life,professional commitments and public communication. Freedom bound,Pessoa's determination keeps looking forward to the coming up soon Free at last happy ending. In the meantime,positive artistic suggestions such as Intuition,in art expression and real life timing,are always mostly welcome,both for the public's eyes delight and the artist's Conquest of his personal Glory. Just a short simple word.FREE! However what's at stake is a lengthwise dimension wonderful something,mysterious but bright,unpredictable but rock-steady. Just like Antonio Pessoa's fine art performances,art scene disappearances and Symphonic Orquestra soundtracked public comebacks. Antonio Pessoa Night Wits Night Wits,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,is once again another sign of the artist's full determination to establish the first encounters with the subconscious Mind infinite possibilities related to the night shift ritual of being systematically provided with the inner- self super potencial revelations during sleep. The artist's straight forward determination,persistance,self-assurance and patience,play once again an important leading role in this fantastic odyssey across the infinite universe of the Mind available enlightenment power resources. Pessoa developes his growing ability to deal with the resistance overcoming process,fully determined to break on through to the other side and thereby start drawing upon the All-Knowledge infinite supply within the mysterious depths of the subconscious Mind. Delving into the mystery of the Heart and the depths of the subconscious,exploring the meaning of his true meaning in life,fine art and the genuine identity of his creative nature,has become Antonio Pessoa's main priority well reflected and so obviously expressed both in his private daily self-psychotherapy rituals and in his latest amazing and rather interesting artworks. Experiencing the first episodes of this inner metamorphosis,has been given the artist more than enough stimulus,motivation and enthusiasm to carry on digging down to the depths of the inner Mind Super Potential. Turning on the automatic mind explorer turbine,tune in the mind radio system and start surfing across the subconscious network universe,is the basic essentials A B C procedure number one before the rewarding celebration of finally enter the natural virtual subconscious encyclopedic labyrinth and consequently start decoding the secret keys into plain awareness,effortlessly recollecting vital knowledge information and,surprise,surprise,waking up in the morning with an impressive emotional intelligence extra power supply. The positive influence and the super-dynamic efficiency acquired through this inner-Mind wandering nightly exercise is the expected moment of personal achievement and glory,this inmensely intense pleasure of feeling the overwhelming sensation of having absolute control upon our life and destiny,plus a special structured creative enhancement through which the art action will turn out to be a veritable master fine art session astonishing performance. Sleep on it! Antonio Pessoa sleeps while NIGHT WITS play their tweaks and tricks. After fine-tuning the subconscious Mind engine the artist enters the Garden of Earthly Delight to pluck the flowers off the bush.That's the Mind's Twilight Zone,where the clock stops working and the new time zone is now a delicious concept of timelessness. The natural virtual Temple of Wisdom welcomes the artist for a wonder magical tour through the dimlit marble halls of the infinite castle of universal knowledge and cosmic awareness. Whispering angelic voices now echoing against his ears,surrounding him and gently delivering songs of wisdom,suddenly revealing answers and unspeakable confessions for complex doubts and incisive questions. The Light is shining at last,the hiding place is now a bright universe of stars in shining armour,the spiritual subconscious master essence activation introducing integral amazing overviews of global awareness,accelerating approaches to new models for universal understanding,awakening his inner power,supreme energy potential and high emotional intelligence. NIGHT WITS tell the artist "now you will be revealed the mystery of the inner Light and Fire that enables you to raise the vibrations within your body to attune with and become an instrument for your Soul,Life,Destiny and Art! Not quite a real masterpiece for Antonio Pessoa's quality standards,NIGHT WITS is however a charming painting and most importantly I believe it will be widely reconized as a puctual historic item of the artist's fascinating commitment to the Mind subconscious discovery let alone all the upcoming positive consequences and hopefully miraculous feedbacks this start from the scratch first serious experiences and daily systematic explorations are naturally and very,very probably leading to. Pessoa's reputation as an outstanding determined man obviously precedes him to the point of by now having grrabed our attention and genuine interest in what might and most certainly will be not only another remarkable personal achievement in the artist's life but on the whole the great contribution all this self- psychotherapy process surely will give on a short- term period to a contemporary fine art performance drastic quality evolution.

Antonio Pessoa ' INTUITION

2007-11-20T13:31:00.000-08:00

2007-11-20T13:30:00.001-08:00

Antonio Pessoa

Intuition

Something like the "Pinball Wizard" song,performed by the english band The Who,however not quite so,fine art wizard Antonio Pessoa comes up with Intuition,acrylic on canvas,2007,expressing a perspective of what talent in real life is all about. When a lukewarm action leading role isn't definitely an option in the world we live in,whatsoever,particularly if one is facing overwhelming challenges plus a continuous and peculiar on-going urgent demands from art dealers and art collecters,moreover with no immediate alternative to,shall we say,reduce daily-weekly professional priorities...Intuition at its highest top level comes up as an absolutely required science.Fact. Always literally punctual and wisely convenient about his latest artworks as a systematic direct reaction method in which is extremely skillfully and witty published under art expression articles,a positive attitude and a very well situated response towards smiling happy or earthquake-prone circumstances plus unexpected heart trembling feedbacks,Pessoa's special sharp interpretation of the global time frame allows him to use contemporary art as a reliable reflector of his well focused observing opinion,emotional waves and general perception.That's what art nowadays is all about...or must I say...at least it should be. So,once again,everything seems to make perfect sense concerning the artist's truthful grown-up posture which is a breath of fresh air in today's overstocked propaganda-oriented racing emerging academic artists miscellaneous ways to cash off any local art scene,the best way they know how. Antonio Pessoa's personal success reports a substantial cool as cool can be sort of wholesome contemplative profile connected to the world by playing juggling balls with faqs and answers,playing by the rules but most importantly playing by Intuition. Personal News travel fast,therefore Pessoa is the first one to become aware that the most reliable source to come up with an accurate statistical measurement of his own Intuition amperage,is actually himself. So no wonder we are now able to have the visual and emotional privilege of here and now stand before a charming painting titled Intuition. Antonio Pessoa's 2007 artworks definitely show us a man,an artist going through an exciting and prodigious period of self-discovery,Mind research and emotional improvement. This instinctive knowing without the use of special resoning processes,still a rare gift possessed by only a few,is well explicit in this artwork on canvas,apart from its abstract quality the concept's fingerprints are all over the art space,a mirror reflecting and reporting this fascinating inner guidance tool,Pessoa and his higher self sharing with all of us his field of new found information beyond the bounds of space and time and consequently getting back to the heart of the public as he moves out of static coherence in order to increase the unfoldment of Intuition. Anyway,Intuition,the painting and all its meaningful symbolic abstract neo-surrealistic content is after all a part of Antonio Pessoa's current concept named FREE. This reference identified and directly related to the artist's contemporary art expression evolution,which is by itself the communicating mirror of great inner personal achievements,a unique experience profile conducting his qualities and skills towards such a magnificent supreme level of steadfast self- improvement,right now still too premature to predict the extent of this challenging mission and the outcome general effects of this daring remarkable emotional attitude plus odyssey. As for right now,that's the big thrill and the spicy mystery,for not even Pessoa is able to actually realize beforehand just how long it's going to take for him to accomplish a reasonable high degree of this fascinating dream,nor is he still able to foresee the depth level at stake let alone the probable wonderful possibilities,fulfilling and rewarding consequences of all this self-psychotherapy chemistry. The general perspective is obviously excellent and on the whole and most importantly,sure thing Antonio Pessoa's Intuition is bound to lead him safe and sound to the sunny place he profoundly feels and deeply believes he belongs to.Freedom! However...hold your horses,Ladies and Gentlemen,not quite so fast.Great goals take time to accomplish and overcoming life's adversities one by one takes a great deal of energy accompanied with a whole lot of patience and resistance. As the artist practises self-control he approximates more and more to this magical inward kingdom,and is less and less swayed by passion and grief,pleasure and pain, and lives a steadfast and virtuous life,manifesting manly strength and fortitude,in art performance,personal life,professional commitments and public communication. Freedom bound,Pessoa's determination keeps looking forward to the coming up soon Free at last happy ending. In the meantime,positive artistic suggestions such as Intuition,in art expression and real life timing,are always mostly welcome,both for the public's eyes delight and the artist's Conquest of his personal Glory. Just a short simple word.FREE! However what's at stake is a lengthwise dimension wonderful something,mysterious but bright,unpredictable but rock-steady. Just like Antonio Pessoa's fine art performances,art scene disappearances and Symphonic Orquestra soundtracked public comebacks.

THE BELIEF GENERATOR

2007-10-31T22:49:00.002-07:00

2007-10-31T22:49:00.001-07:00

Antonio Pessoa

The Belief Generator
THE BELIEF GENERATOR,oil and acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa,2007,is paradigmatic enough of how the artist is stubbornly committed to his wonderful plan of self-assurance and certainty by continuously administrating his primary beliefs regarding the wisdom he is already being rewarded with and inevitably by translating it into contemporary fine art expression,more and more able to reflect the spreading of supreme awareness elements,persistently fertile,clear signals of a new age of higher artistic values propositions surprisingly concise despite the colorful illustration of the running symbols plus the elite drawing description,obviously a still remaining aesthetics conceptual principle and traditional consensus of his huge oeuvre's different periods. Ready,Steady...GO! This could be an intro for a cool running marathon,a racing start being broadcasted all over the Planet. However,this new breeze marathon has no special schedules nor a beginning and end. In short,to make it properly stated,it's more about an enjoyable Mystery Tour,where artist Antonio Pessoa takes the leading role,not because he obssessively wishes to,but just because one way or another the Show must goon,and the artist,like it or not,has got to take the leading role of this motion picture making,Antonio Pessoa contemporary Fine Art! Cool as cool can be,the modern master enjoys life over career struggle,self-satisfied in his comfostable lifestyle,making the most of every single moment and social meeting,an attitude which only a high level of wisdom can afford right there,in the kitchen's heat,in the middle of today's art scene traffic jam. No need fo more reference guides,exhausting analysis or nail-biting volcanic information,even thrilling adrenaline last minute think things through rally time emergency episodes,some kind of "help me God this is driving me crazy" sort of B Movie like,bad TV soap drama sinking one's soul fast into an abyss of awfulness.No Sir,I say,definitely,no way. As I put down in words what's happening in Antonio Pessoa's life,I love to admit what I suppose I already knew.The artist paints and does it with the amazing and amusing serene emotions of a true art studio veteran. His command of the contemporary fine art language has unquestionably reached its highest level up to now. Regardless the multiple projects he is involved with,plus his systematic and deserved spare times of adorable procrastination,he manages to develop his oeuvre program with the easy-to-do quick and cool flow of the experienced Modern Master,an almost exotic performance,resizing an endless selection of ideas onto the canvas,downloading already invented framed pictures and sketches wandering for the past few days across his mind,with the high technical precision of his striking painting brush caresses. Great achievements occur when an artist has something original to say,art at home and abroad,here he goes once again,the contemporary dancer for some moments let us suppose that instead of painting he is in an Edgar Degas Ballet rehearsal,exhibiting a harmonious serene emotional flow,voilà,a gentle and sentimental gentleman excelling by doing pure contemporary marvel! Too much for one day sometimes in Antonio Pessoa's life.The phone doesn't stop ringing,the artist has already been talking to a whole lot of collaborators,art dealers,friends,family,art critics,web designers,to a point of feeling overwhelmed by the interferences rush,good news,bad news,problems,urgent decision taking situations,you name it. Nevertheless the modern master gets back down to work,in his devoted art action intimacy,writing his own diary on canvas with the steady punctual recording reliability of a life reporter. The Fine Art synopsis gains more and more expression as the artist solves the composition puzzle,through his own interpretation of his thoughts,feelings,emotions,beliefs and conclusions. Tomorrow will be another day,another adventure,very probably another artwork,ready for the viewers eyes and public opinion. His art well expressed diary shall be always the mirror of his most intimate perceptions,as the world keeps going round and round and life proves to be a magical box of unexpected surprises,a complex fascinating interconnecting forum in which a great communicator such as Pessoa definitely will have a word to say,something to share,a message to herald and an interesting role to perform. Mr.Vicente Fernandez Lago,Antonio Pessoa's closest friend,partner,public relations in Spain,Miami,southern California and Latin America,and the artist's most reliable and steady collaborator for the past ten years up to now,is the unmovable solid as a rock structure which proves to be the most effective support mainly in south western Europe,entirely involved,excited,enthusiastically motivated and focused in the modern master's worldwide Project.Fact. In today's growing selfishness-oriented racing world,a strong partnership such as this seems to be a rather royal priviledge both for the artist and Mr.Lago. Anyway,in the meantime,Antonio Pessoa lives up to his lifestyle concept,the sort of life he actually wishes to lead and also the glamorous social,dynamic and creative daily routine which better fits his unique,contemplative,even controversial personality,perception of space and time,art performance,living aesthetics,roots and traditions,deep beliefs and general interests. Right now,owning four art studios he calls home,Pessoa paints as he prays,actually by using a very sophisticated method of Mind Power improvement and enhancement,thereby systematically downloading inner philosophical and pragmatic links,providing him with a true substancial existential amount of references possibilities and daily sunny new solutions in order to face art action,public communication,social meetings,art scene unexpected puzzles and real life challenges...with the easy going decisions taking and making expertise and in so doing obviously getting the work done,so to speak. On the whole the art scene and art market practical matters demand a well defined matter-of- fact positive thinking,plus a master approach to each and every complex issue,crossroads,task accomplishment oriented processes and a healthy straightforwardness to manage and deal with urgent action-based rough sledding situations. Antonio Pessoa more himself than ever before,seems to have dismissed most of the old specif and too obvious influences and in so doing,his today's art expression definitely gained a wonderful and charming miscellaneous New Look,with a new original togetherness about it. Nevertheless it's good to be able to observe that his favorite old and modern Great Masters still have a very special place in his heart,in his art and most importantly still have the power of the wise advice providing,plus the honour of being consulted now and then,once in a while,most of the the time or even maybe on a daily basis. Let alone the so many very interesting contemporary emerging artists from all over the world Pessoa admires,unquestionably an excellent source of new ideas,concepts,aesthetics and tendencies definitely not to be ignored...the Twentieth Century Modern Masters live on forever in Pessoa's Temple of the Great Masters,where the flame of genius keep on burning and sparking,sheltering and fuelling Antonio Pessoa's inspiration with their eternal teaching,foresight and veteran experience. THE BELIEF GENERATOR is a good example of why,how and where the Great Masters come back alive and live together again celebrating and surely congratulating the talent,skills and mastery of one of the most relevant contemporary artists in today's art scene.

ARTE FACTOS

2007-10-28T07:46:00.001-07:00

2007-10-28T07:45:00.001-07:00

Antonio Pessoa

Arte Factos
António Pessoa . Hoje e Amanhã... António Pessoa,hoje é mais que un artista,mais que um comunicador do universo plástico contemporâneo,mais que um modelo que muitos colegas de oficio e profissão tentam seguir. António Pessoa hoje é uma Marca,uma referência exacta dentro do núcleo artistico total.Um jovem artista prematuramente bem instalado no projecto de vida,familia e profissão que ele e os seus colaboradores souberam inteligentemente conceber,pacientemente estruturar e agora, em jeito de manutenção vão seguindo o mesmo critério de dinamismo,sobriedade e equilibrio,elementos os quais justamente se adaptam como uma luva à personalidade contemplativa do artista. Entre a figura pública e o homem,existe a mesma diferença que entre o dia e a noite.É muito frequente ainda que muitos se enganem na hora de avaliar António Pessoa,não na sua indiscutivel qualidade artistica,mas sim na sua postura pessoal perante a vida,perante si mesmo,perante os que o rodeiam e num caso muito particular e crucial,perante o mercado da arte e todos os que nele estão directa ou indirectamente envolvidos. Frequentememte criticado por ser arrogante,altivo e até déspota,apenas felizmente,por aqueles que não o conhecem,para não falar dos invejositos de meia tigela que da má lingua se viciam porque melhor não sabem fazer nem dizer;António Pessoa sem grande esforço,diga- se de passagem,faz ouvidos de mouco,já que tudo joga a seu favor para dar-se ao luxo de não fazer caso a escupidelas sem saliva e mordidelas sem caninos. Nada melhor que para um pintor do seu calibre para pura e simplesmente estar-se nas tintas...e mesmo que não estivesse,verdade seja dita,também não teria tempo para isso! Claro que me refiro essencialmente a galerias de arte da segunda divisão que pensam que são grande coisa,aparentando aquela altivez saloia dos pobres pretenciosos a Jet Set com patéticos ares de snobismo de curso por correspondência,uma formação artistica empiricamente insuficiente e pior de tudo uma perspectiva do mercado de arte global absolutamente obsoleta e desqualificada. Uma vez mais,perante esta hilariante realidade,António Pessoa desconsoladamente não tem outro remédio que recorrer (metaforicamente falando) a anestesia local!Desliga,esquece e ponto final. Hoje,como se não bastasse o Ciclo Zodiaco para lhe tirar toda a produção actual das mãos e garantir-lhe um nivel de vida muito mais além das suas necessidades básicas,por assim dizer...Hoje,como se não bastasse o infinito leque de luxuosos hoteis prontamente disponiveis para expõr a sua Obra...Hoje,artista António Pessoa,é um profissional que sabe com milimétrica precisão aquilo que quer,como,quando e onde...e em que bases de acordo e modelo de trabalho poderá eventualmente colaborar com as Top galerias de arte. Isto nada tem a vêr com arrogância,mas sim, aliás como qualquer cidadão com dois dedos de testa pode facilmente concluir,com um elevado grau de exigência, um notável calibre de honestidade,postura, atitude e principalmente um imaculado sentido de profissionalismo! É este António Pessoa,um corajoso homem que sobreviveu com notável dignidade e dedicação,a todos estes anos de boas e más experiências no mercado da arte contemporânea,absorvendo e assimilando conhecimentos,ensinamentos,calo e maturidade. Ao que tudo indica o artista e comunicador ,Hoje...prepara-se tranquilamente para o Amanhã,na certeza porém de que na pior das hipóteses tudo irá ser estruturado da única forma possivel. À sua maneira! Por conseguinte,o inventor da New Era,ainda vai dar muito mais que falar,mas decididamente à sua maneira e tudo o que não vá de encontro a este nobre conceito é o mesmo que dizer que nunca aconteceu nem vai ter lugar. António Pessoa deste modo e desta maneira,acaba não só por estar no mundo da arte com nobreza,prestigio,dignidade e profissionalismo,como também por enobrecer,prestigiar e engrandecer a classe dos jovens artistas plásticos. Efectivamente desde hà uns tempos até à data , António Pessoa é sistematicamente consultado por colegas artistas de todos os cinco continentes,pedindo-lhe conselhos na esperança de obterem respostas a infindáveis e tumultuosas dúvidas,na esperança de sentirem nas mãos o molho de chaves capaz de abrir algumas portas deste mundo elitista e impiedoso que é o mercado de arte hoje em dia. António Pessoa,um homem com o mundo nas mãos,não se esforça por aparentar humildade,pois a sua é legitima,natural e latente.Um artista português que embora tranquilamente soberano,não deixa para amanhã o que pode fazer hoje.Um homem sobriamente tranquilo,porém decididamente um homem de acção.Sem dúvida as qualidades flagrantes que o têem transportado sem especial esforço até ao lugar ao sol onde hoje se encontra,não menosprezando a sua inegável genialidade ,esse talento exuberante e abundante,o qual aliado a uma estranha e rara capacidade laboral,fazem a quimica,o Todo,o fenómeno,a marca António Pessoa. Amanhã,que é quando o hoje deixa de ser hoje para ser ontem,o artista português uma vez mais viaja a Nova Iorque,Chicago,Los Angeles e San Francisco para reestabelecer o ideia do seu Projecto.Escusado será dizer que não serão necessários grandes preâmbulos de retórica,nem exaustivas sessões de negociações bilaterais,como quem desesperada e obstinadamente busca soluções mediocres "alternativas". Efectivamente,António Pessoa desde hà muito tempo que leva "take it or leave it" escrito no brilho do seu olhar,na imobilidade desconcertante que só uma profunda segurança e tranquilidade permitem. E como se tudo isto não fosse mais do que suficiente,a New Era do artista luso atingiu o centro do alvo,apanhando o mundo intelectual de surpresa e colocando o conceito de arte contemporânea numa situação embaraçosamente dificil. António Pessoa,sem tirar nem pôr,sem pré- avisos,enfadonhos preliminares,voluminosas teses nem conferências de imprensa,deu o seu vanguardiata conceito denominado Contemporary Plus como dado adquirido,pintado e assinado.Dito e feito,sempre invariavelmente à sua maneira! E à sua maneira será! Contemporary Plus,fez com que a muitos se lhes caissem os dentes, ainda não de todo recuperados do impacto da New Era- António Pessoa, o conceito aparentemente inocente e aparentemente simplesmente estético de Contemporary Plus,vai tomando gradualmente uma função clinicamente devastadora,de facto provocando um efeito que vai fazendo com que a noção de arte contemporânea seja uma corrente digna de museu,dignamente "démodé",elegantemente ultrapassada e historicamente arquivada! E a questão que fica por agora suavemente pairando no ar,é: Que mais cartas-surpresa terá António Pessoa escondidas na manga? Um Ás de Ouros? Suites Alba Resort & Spa Praia da Albandeira apto. 1025 Carvoeiro ~~ Algarve ~~ Portugal www.suitesalbaresort.com tel . 00351 282 380 700 Exposição de pintura . António Pessoa Primavera e Verão Parece que afinal de contas o artista consegue fazer prevalecer a sua vontade,dando-se a conhecer um pouco mais no seu próprio país. Pois,vejamos se para a pintura tem demonstrado ter engenho e arte para dar e vender,faltava tirar a prova dos nove,se ainda assim António Pessoa conseguia convencer Vicente Fernández Lago,a decidir-se finalmente a divulgar de uma forma mais adequada,a sua obra em terras lusas. O Sr.Fernández Lago,apesar da fama que tem de ser um homem teimoso e muito fiel aos seus caprichos,no que se refere a António Pessoa felizmente sempre parece fazer uma pausa na sua obstinada natureza,concedendo ao artista,por respeito,por hábito e também às vezes até por distração,essa cedência por influência de uma simpatia moral e vamos lá vêr,até mesmo pragmática. E o resultado começa a estar à vista com três "long play"exposições simultâneas e outras que tantas já programadas para esta temporada de Primavera-Verão na bela Galiza. António Pessoa precocemente reformado,que é como quem diz,como se sabe,porém pelo menos na sua atitude e modelo de vida dá visiveis sinais de estar bem onde está, restringindo o seu circulo de amigos intimos ao minimo imprescindivel e desta forma preservando uma certa qualidade social,que não só o inspira e o enriquece espiritualmente,como o vai por assim dizer protegendo de más influências e de interferências negativas. Intrinsecamente desinteressado por questões mundanas como fama,dinheiro,compromissos sociais cerimoniosos e acima de tudo cada vez mais insensível ao ritmo estupefaciente das grandes urbes,Home Studio-Antonio Pessoa reveste- se cada vez mais de uma atmosfera de trabalho plástico,silêncio e pensamento,estudo,análise politica e social,invenção,lazer e contemplação. Esta exposição patente ao público todos os meses de Primavera e Verão adapata-se bastante ao critério estético e até climático de António Pessoa,artista bastante habituado à atmosfera da Dolce Vita do sul da Peninsula desde a sua adolescência,apesar de ter vivido seis anos entre Londres e Amsterdam. Ainda que Worlwide seja um projecto que lhe vai exigir ceder e abdicar do conforto semi- tropical no qual se encontra como um peixe dentro de água,para enfrentar-se à turbulência de cidades como Nova Iorque,Chicago,Los Angeles,Dallas e até mesmo em sua casa,Barcelona,facto que verdade seja dita para o artista consiste muito mais em sofrimento do que em prazer,António Pessoa faz o sacrificio e toma inteiramente a responsabilidade perante si mesmo e naturalmente perante os muitos colaboradores que dependem e vivem exclusivamente do e para o projecto. Obviamente ainda sem certezas concretas é contudo muito possivel que o pintor português venha durante estes meses de Primavera e Verão a marcar algumas vezes presença neste paraiso algarvio,obviamente dependendo também da sua voluminosa agenda. Tendo sido sempre a sua região favorita em Portugal,onde o artista já viveu e passou longas temporadas desde a sua adolescência,o Algarve continua a provocar-lhe essa sensação de bem- estar e êxtase o que muito provavelmente pode significar que de facto apareça por aí,quanto mais não seja para dar um ar da sua graça. Sém dúvida que vale a pena se a alma não é pequena,pegar na familia,meter-se no Popó e vir até cá aos belos Algarves,claro está no Carvoeiro, Suites Alba Resort & Spa,em jeito de férias e naturalmente com os sentidos apurados para visualizar uma das colecções hoje em dia,mais representativas das artes plásticas portuguesas. António Pessoa Expo Norte http://xornalgalicia.com/print.php?sid=18845 Hotel Albergaria Don Manuel e Galeria Dorian , apresentam Expo Norte - António Pessoa .2007 Hotel Alberg. Don Manuel tel . 251 809 700 . Rua da Igreja nº1 Gandra , Valença . Portugal Mais uma vez,depois de dois anos,Hotel Albergaria Don Manuel abre as suas portas ao público galego e do norte de Portugal para outra retrospectiva da Obra de António Pessoa. Ao que parece segundo fontes fidedignas muitas outras exposições do artista luso estão previstas aqui mesmo no jardim à beira-mar plantado. Justamente a Obra que por estas terras galaico- portuguêsas foi aqui executada pela inspiração e mãos do artista,parece que por cá fica ,pelo menos na sua esmagadora maioria.No periodo de Vigo,1997-2002 , mais de 3.000 óleos sobre tela nasceram para a eternidade no estudio de António Pessoa,para não falar das centenas de aguarelas,técnicas mistas e acrílicos sobre papel.Conveniente também é não esquecer que o controverso album Black and White foi concebido e editado no espaço destes super- produtivos anos. Após uma época de relevante trabalho do autor nos primeiros anos da década de 90,estimulada e comercializada por Alfredo Moreira enquanto António Pessoa viveu no Porto ; Vigo,Galiza,Espanha recebe de braços abertos um artista português até à data desconhecido em terras do Finisterre.Vigo será,durante cinco divertidos anos de intensa fertilidade artística,a cidade onde Antonio Pessoa vive e trabalha e se apaixona pela terra e pelas suas gentes,inclusive acabando por contrair matrimónio com uma espanhola. António Pessoa acaba por tornar-se no artista luso mais conhecido em terras galegas de todos os tempos.Hoje em dia nem mesmo Vieira da Silva parece gozar de tanta popularidade. Numa terra de boa gente,mas onde os portuguêses até hà pouco tempo eram olhados de soslaio,António Pessoa consegue a proeza das proezas tornando-se decididamente num excelente embaixador de Portugal. Porém,o artista desde muito jovem habituado aos pros e contras de se ser estrangeiro (...e português!) em vários paises europeus,nomeadamente em Amsterdam e Londres onde viveu durante seis anos...em terras galegas não se deixa ficar pela simples visita,mas sim acaba por ser aceite como património cultural da velha Galiza. Lorenzo Quinn,filho do mesmíssimo Anthony Quinn,em finais dos anos 90 na noite da inauguração de uma exposição de esculturas de sua autoria,nada mais nada menos que no prestigioso Club Financiero de Vigo conhece António Pessoa e incute-lhe,por assim dizer,um bichinho chamado Barcelona. O artista luso ainda solteiro e depois já casado faz diversas viagens à cidade Condal,BCN,Sitges e Castell Defels,acabando por instalar-se em Barcelona em meados de 2002. Aqui começa uma nova etapa da sua vida e muito particularmente a sua expansão na Europa e Estados Unidos.Vicente Fernández Lago,Luis Santiago,Nancy Igartiburu,Jacob Kotsky e Pierre Fontanals (entre outros) acompanham-no nesta dificil mas fascinante aventura. Brigitte Lucas e Agnès Teixidó colaboram com o projecto de António Pessoa em Barcelona e David Leonardis em Chicago.2004 é um ano decisivo na carreira do artista na medida em que por uma serie de merecidas e devidas circunstâncias é catapultado para uma nova escala de valor e reconhecimento ibérico e internacional. Talvez para desanuviar do reboliço da grande metropolis, António Pessoa em 2005 consegue uma autêntica pechincha e compra uma casa-estudio em Santa Eulalia,Ibiza,aquilo a que o artista não tardaria em chamar Home Studio.Home Studio- António Pessoa tem-se tornado quase numa lenda,como se de uma marca se tratasse,mas essencialmente o retiro paradisiaco de um homem que adora o mar,sol e natureza. Tirando partido da situação,Pierre Fontanals,Luis Santiago e o erudito Mr.Jacob Kotsky aproveitam a ideia do Home Studio para criarem um espelho mediático da verdadeira alma do artista. A partir de 2005 Antonio Pessoa regressa a Portugal e Galiza com certa assiduidade,no entanto sempre de maleta na mão e mais o seu habitual ar de resignação de um homem que no fundo o que mais lhe apraz e o faz realmente feliz é sem tirar nem pôr o velho critério de amigos amigos, negócios aparte,profissão muito bem,mas paz e sossêgo. Enquanto Vicente Fernández Lago e os seus colaboradores locais preparam uma serie de exposições em Portugal e Galiza,2007,Antonio Pessoa faz os últimos preparativos para mais uma vez enfrentar o seu grande amor e a sua grande dôr de cabeça.Nova Iorque! Home Studio em Ibiza fica à espera do regresso do dono da casa,sem dúvida uma promessa de mais uma longa temporada de invenção,trabalho e Obra no seguimento da sua nova linha pós- contemporânea,The New Era. E ainda teimam alguns em dizer que já está tudo inventado? Se muitos pensam, e a verdade é que pensam,que grande parte de êxito de António Pessoa foi tudo uma questão de sorte,estão redondamente enganados.Talvez,digamos,que muito possivelmente o artista tenha nascido com o "coiso" virado para a lua,mas o mais certo e justo é efectivamente concluir que Pessoa...António parece ter sempre sabido fazer- se rodear e acompanhar de colaboradores não só multifacetados mas essencialmente inventivos. E um grande exemplo desta teoria foi a posta en prática do Ciclo Zodiaco em 2003,já o artista vivendo e trabalhando em Barcelona. Tanto Luis Santiago como Pierre Fontanals mostraram-se à altura da situação tanto mais que a operação foi concluida com extrema eficácia, organização e actuação em termos de tempo real,aquilo que no corrente anglicismo se conhece por "Timing". O Ciclo Zodiaco,inventado por Gala e Salvador Dali em Paris em plenos anos 30,baseava-se na idea de que cada colecionador de arte se comprometia a adquirir um quadro do artista catalão uma vez por ano. Isto somado por algumas dezenas de colecionadores permitiu a Gala e Dali usufruir de uma metódica situação financeira que por assim dizer lhes permitia um nivel de vida adequado às extravagâncias do casal sem deixar obviamente de mencionar o facto que esta tranquilidade económica fez com que o então jovem surrealista pudesse de facto dedicar-se de corpo e alma ao trabalho sem a necessidade de fazer qualquer tipo de cedências. Dito e feito.Pierre Fontanals conhecedor deste modus operandi, aproveitando eu desde já a oportunidade de referir e salientar o facto de que seus pais eram amigos intimos de Salvador Dali,convence António Pessoa a fazer o mesmo,ou pelo menos a editar uma nova versão da ideia.O sitio e o momento eram mais que propicios,isto é,Barcelona 2003, precisamente numa altura em que a Obra do artista luso começa a chegar e a suscitar interesse não só na Europa como também no outro lado do Atlântico,nomeadamente Chicago e Indianopolis. Por conseguinte,mãos à obra e a arregaçar as mangas.Pierre Fontanals,António Pessoa e Luis Santiago,com a imprescindivel participação de Vicente Fernández Lago,começam a recompilar todos os clientes da Obra do artista até à data.Em 2003,segundo fontes fidedignas o resultado final ascendia a mais de um milhar de regulares. O projecto e o programa do Ciclo Zodiaco foi enviado imediatamente via postal ou e- mail,obtendo num curto espaço de tempo uma adesão satisfatoriamente surpreendente. Deste modo António Pessoa libertava-se de compromissos pouco aliciantes com galerias de arte,passando a vender directamente aos coleccionadores e a organizar exposições da sua Obra por sua própria conta e risco. A sua situação financeira triplicava de un dia para o outro,um fundo de maneio que o artista e os seus colaboradores através de um excelente trabalho de equipa não perderam tempo em investir,viagens Europa e Estados Unidos,longas estadias em luxuosos hoteis,web designers, e dinner-parties onde era convidada a elite de Barcelona,potenciais novos coleccionadores,jovens criticos de arte de toda a zona Euro e como não podia deixar de ser directores de galerias de arte,os quais mesmo não usufruindo do privilegio de se encontrarem no top 10 dos VIP,dadas as novas circunstâncias,também não eram nada para se deitar fora. António Pessoa,mais do que nunca antes,envolve- se num sistema de trabalho,divulgação e comercialização da Obra,totalmente independente do lento e entediante esquema das galerias de arte. Muito mais que proveito financeiro,estimulo laboral e satisfação pessoal,o Ciclo Zodiaco traz à vida de António Pessoa uma refrescante dose de adrenalina,inspiração,tranquilidade e decididamente,motivação. Hoje em dia e graças ao Ciclo Zodiaco,o artista luso conta com um número,a bem dizer,inconfessável de clientes regulares da sua Obra,que em última análise lhe permite dar-se ao luxo de efectivamente poder escolher as opções e situações que mais lhe agradam e certamente as mais adequadas ao seu temperamento,Obra e ambições . Enquanto os lobos uivam e os cães que ladram...não mordem,Mr.Jacob Kotsky,amigo pessoal de Vicente Fernández Lago e amigo intimo e estreito colaborador de António Pessoa desde finais dos anos 90,a partir de 2003... começa a interessar-se pela feitura da biografia do ainda jovem artista. Em 2003 escreve um sem número de artigos sobre a vida e Obra do pintor,traduzidos do inglês ao castelhano por Luis Santiago e editados na publicação do catálogo La Época Romántica de António Pessoa. No entanto só em 2006 Jacob Kotsky começa realmente a escrever a um ritmo acelerado,os capitulos mais interessantes e relevantes da vida e Obra do artista. Ainda que About Antonio Pessoa,um livro que promete e compromete, por agora não passe de uma infinidade de apontamentos dispersos e anacronicamente fragmentado,tudo indica que venha a ser muito brevemente uma realidade enciclopédica,biográfica,mordaz e sobretudo profundamente analítica. Através desta biografia o leitor viaja no tempo até aos dias em que António Pessoa vive entre Londres e Amsterdam,ganhando a vida como pianista e já estabelecendo seriamente uma forte relação com as artes plásticas. O adolescente António Pessoa entra no mundo da pintura com a naturalidade desconcertante daqueles a quem o talento não lhes falta. Num caso muito particular,Amsterdam é uma cidade em plena ebulição social,cultural e cosmopolita,o palco perfeito para um jovem curioso e irrequieto.Enquanto Portugal,mergulhado num conturbado periodo pós- revolução e pós- guerra colonial teria sido o golpe de misericórdia para um espirito sensivel e já habituado ao avanço social do norte da Europa,para António Pessoa, Holanda é um quarto de brinquedos,que é como quem diz,um epicentro de actividades diversas como música,teatro,arte...e sexo!,que o artista aproveita e assimila ,desenvolvendo a sua intuição emocional e criativa e projectando-a sem pedir licença em todas as actividades em que participa,música,teatro e finalmente a pintura. António Pessoa vive seis anos em Amsterdam (ou Amsterdão!),seis intensos e aventureiros anos trespassados aqui e acolá por algumas timidas e curtas visitas ao seu pais de origen,ainda muito a preto e branco para o apetite cromático do jovem talento. Contudo estes loucos e felizes tempos em terras flamengas,são ciclicamente interrompidos pelas inúmeras visitas que faz a Paris,Londres,Berlim e Copenhaga (Copenhagen!).António Pessoa de "blue jeans" e "moon beams",também visita Veneza,Grécia e por duas vezes Marrocos.Umas vezes só,outras vezes com amigos e por último com a sua companheira holandesa,Yvonne Smit. Também é com Yvonne Smit que António Pessoa passa os seus últimos tempos na Holanda,vivendo sete meses em Groningen e regressando a Amsterdam para uma derradeira despedida. Estamos em meados dos anos 80, quando o artista com vinte e poucos anos de idade regressa ao Porto em jeito de visita de médico,para logo viajar para o Algarve e sul de Espanha,onde durante alguns anos interrompe dràsticamente a sua actividade pictórica,vivendo única e exclusivamente da música,tocando o piano em hoteis e pubs desde Albufeira até Málaga,desde Torremolinos até Ibiza. É esta ilha balear que António Pessoa visita pela primeira vez com apenas quinze anos de idade,que muito anos depois vai ser o seu cantinho paradisiaco e o seu Home Studio semi- tropical. Em 1998 o artista luso viaja de automóvel até à sua querida cidade holandesa para um reencontro depois de tantos anos. No entanto só a partir do momento em que se instala em Barcelona, António Pessoa desloca-se a Amsterdam com frequência entrando em contacto com velhos amigos e fazendo novas amizades,desta vez quase todas elas de uma forma ou de outra directamente envolvidas no mundo das artes plásticas. Em última análise se Porto é a sua cidade Natal,para António Pessoa, Amsterdam,Nederland,ficou,é e sempre será decididamente uma das suas cidades favoritas! António Pessoa regressa ao Porto en finais dos anos 80 para se reencontrar com um animado turbilhão de amigos e predestinado a conhecer outros tantos. Comodamente instalado no seu espaçoso T4 ,apetrechado com o excelente piano de marca Pleyel ,uma prenda vitalicia da sua avó paterna, encontra igualmente neste apartamento os metros quadrados mais que imprescindiveis para retomar a actividade plástica. Em contraste com La Vída Loca do sul de Espanha,a cidade do Porto parece-lhe envolta num manto de nostálgica melancolia.A sua adaptação a este ambiente ao principio parece-lhe rigorosamente impossivel,contudo os amigos de colégio e os novos com quem vai estabelecer relação, acabam por fazer peso na sua decisão de ficar por algum tempo. Mãos ao trabalho e em escassos meses o atelier da cidade Invicta já dá sinais de intensa actividade e mais importante sinais efectivamente palpáveis de prolífera produção artística.António Pessoa imediatamente despacha os seus piores trabalhos vendendo-os aos prestigiosos leiloeiros de Mouzinho da Silveira e a um marchante de Fonte da Moura que avidamente compra tudo o que o artista lhe disponibiliza. No entanto as suas obras primas vão sendo meticulosamente seleccionadas e armazenadas para eventos de,digamos,mais prestigio. António Pessoa conhece por fim Ana Ferreira Mendes,então sub-directora de informação da RTP Porto,com quem passa a viver em regime semi- matrimonial.Ana Mendes interessa- se não só pelo artista como pela sua arte.Prepara- lhe uma serie de exposições,nomeadamente no casino de Espinho,galeria das caves Sandman,casino da Póvoa e finalmente a apoteose desse programa tendo lugar no Hotel Le Meridien. Para grande surpresa do artista,aliciante surpresa,imagino,metade das obras expostas foram vendidas na noite da inauguração.Ana Ferreira Mendes,devido à sua posição no seio da RTP Porto,tinha feito questão de preparar uma razoável cobertura mediática,convidando os seus mais proeminentes amigos da alta esfera portuense;e como amigos dos nossos amigos nossos amigos são,a Vernissage acabou por ser um desfile de alta costura,má lingua,beijinhos e palmadinhas no ombro,um patatipatatá que se prolongou pela noite dentro,mas que sem tirar nem pôr acabou por mostrar ao jovem António Pessoa que nem tudo o que reluz é ouro e que a sua Obra era altamente aplaudida na sua cidade Natal. Mas apesar de tudo e do grande êxito então,ainda não foi dessa que o irreverente artista ganhou o gosto pelas ruidosas vernissages.De facto os próximos anos vão corroborar esta afirmação na medida exacta em que António Pessoa muito raras são as vezes em que efectivamente comparece às inaugurações,quer porque se encontre num outro lugar e num outro fuso horário,quer simplesmente porque tanto quanto se sabe, sustenta a opinião de que a Obra fala por si e a presença obrigatória e protocolar de quem a deu à luz é justamente uma situação supérflua e até de inspiração exibicionista,logo perdoável. Esta exposição não tendo sido necessariamente o despoletar de um entusiasmo latente,terá sido segundo a lei das probabilidades um binóculo de alta precisão,mostrando uma perspectiva de futuro artistico profissional,o qual como hoje sabemos de facto acabou por se concretizar. E para,enfim,comprovar a minha tese,verificamos que nos anos que se seguiriam,artista António Pessoa gradualmente vai moldeando a sua forma de viver no formato atípico que lhe é peculiar.A sua carreira desenvolve-se com soltura,sorte,organização mas também inevitàvelmente apoiada por uma razoável habilidade de liderança,porém curiosamente contrastada por um paralela postura de descompromisso, como que salvaguardando uma integridade interior,uma forma de viver e gestionar o espaço e o tempo,como só os soberanos do Renascimento sabiam fazer. Apesar de que a sua conversão a tripeiro de gema nunca se tenha por assim dizer concretizado,António Pessoa efectivamente e para sempre fica a dever à cidade que o viu nascer,o grande arranque profissional,bem como um status financeiro muitissimo acima do que se poderia esperar para um jovem artista récem-chegado ao mercado e ao mundo da Arte. E resumindo e concluindo,a exposição no Hotel Le Meridien fica como um marco histórico na vida e Obra de António Pessoa,talvez a fronteira entre o irresponsável,delicioso mundo de aventuras e o pensamento plástico erudito,desenvolvimento técnico,relação artista - temática,levado ao expoente máximo da Arte por excelência! Arte,Antonio Pessoa - Arte é um conceito absolutamente português, visando uma nova aposta do artista em território nacional,com uma linguagem e expressão adequadas às nossas gentes,sem pretender entrar em pretenciosismos de pseudo-erudição,mas pelo contrário fazer chegar a arte e o artista preferivelmente a uma vasta camada da população.Estamos aqui com essa atitude apoiada pelo próprio artista, o qual precisamente acredita que é tempo de mudar um pouco as coisas ( para melhor!),no sentido de partilhar uma forma de literatura visual tão bela como as Belas Artes e quase tão bela como o belo país que é Portugal. Comentava recentemente Pierre Fontanals num artigo sobre António Pessoa para o Xornal Galicia,o estigma de Portugal viver ainda numa atmosfera terceiro mundista,referindo-se ao facto de só abraçar os seus valores ou a titulo póstumo ou quando depois de triunfarem no estrangeiro e chegados a uma idade avançada receberem por fim (que remédio) o reconhecimento atrasado do país que os viu nascer. Pensem o que quiserem,especialmente aqueles que pouco se aventuram no país vizinho,seja em trabalho ou lazer,mas o certo é que estas piadinhas subtis aos espanhois "les encanta!". Pierre Fontanals,aliás um bom rapaz e grande amigo nosso,pense ele o que quiser.Verdade seja dita aqui estamos nós para pelo menos tentar virar tudo ao contrário.António Pessoa é nosso,pertence- nos e tudo o que estiver ao nosso alcance,não pouparemos esforços em estabelecer uma relação desde hà dez longos anos em Stand By. Por estas e por outras, Arte - António Pessoa - Arte, tem como objectivo primordial aproximar o artista de Portugal e vice-versa. Se para Vicente Fernández Lago, administrador da Obra do artista na Galiza e Portugal,tanto se lhe dá como se lhe deu esta situação de "nem de mãos dadas nem de costas viradas",para Luis Santiago o caso muda de figura,já que independentemente do facto de ser amigo intimo e colaborador de António Pessoa,vive em Barcelona hà mais de trinta anos e é com especial orgulho que testemunhou e testemunha a crescente reputação e cotação internacional do artista,concluindo sem o minimo vestigio de mania das grandezas que António Pessoa é um dos grandes embaixadores de Portugal no mundo da arte contemporânea. António Pessoa,para o qual esta triste "irrealidade!!" parece,enfim, coisa de pouca monta,de certeza não perdendo sequer uma hora de sono por esta causa sem causa,contenta-se e até se poderia dizer que se dá por satisfeito com a atenção global que o seu trabalho vai despertando, dando-lhe até,a bem dizer,um certo prazer em poder gozar de um quase total anonimato sempre que visita Portugal. Para Don Vicente Fernández Lago,as razões que vão alimentando esta balsâmica indiferença são mais que lógicas,pois , verdade seja dita e publicada,realiza-se bem mais comercialmente com a Obra do artista português em Espanha do que no Reino de Sócrates! CarvalhoPintodeSousaLand! Arte - António Pessoa - Arte, é um projecto de tranquila comunicação,no idioma de Camões,apenas um projecto,não uma revolução.Os portuguêses decididamente que o merecem,justamente agora em que tão na moda está essa coisa dos Grandes Portuguêses.E falando no Diabo,uma coisa do arco-da-velha,já que Maria João Pires ficou nos últimos dos cem e o António Oliveira...bem mais à frente,e escandalizado ficou o Dr. Mário Soares.E esta,hein?Cá por mim,com certa razão. E a questão fica no ar!Será que os portuguêses sentem desesperadamente a falta de Grandes Portuguêses ou será que os Grandes Portuguêses sentem a falta de Portugal? Arte - António Pessoa - Arte tenta de alguma forma contribuir para a eliminação deste lapso,ainda de todo não crónico ,porém roçando a tragico-comédia.Luis Santiago(Barcelona),Rafael Medina (Lisboa-Madrid), Veronica Amaral (Lisboa),Gabriela Hoffman (Estoril) e eu própria,por agora constituimos o Todo desta transpiração de pura carolice,ainda que muito generosamente António Pessoa nos continue decorando as paredes de nossas casas com o que ele melhor sabe fazer.Pintura! E efectivamente é a pintura de António Pessoa que tencionamos divulgar ao público português um tanto ou quanto adormecido com papas de sarrabulho e "Morangos com Açucar"!!!A ideia de Luis Santiago deu-nos um entusiasmo que sem sabermos nos faltava. Merecemos finalmente uma referência cultural com pés e cabeça e decididamente pernas para andar. Arte - António Pessoa - Arte,acaba por reunir cinco pensamentos num só discernimento.Uma equipa consciente de que algo de muito importante no seio da arte contemporânea se está a passar.Um algo muito artistico, genial e muito português,o inventor de si mesmo e agora que já não restam dúvidas, o inventor da Nova Era ! Para todos os efeitos,pensem e digam o que disserem,a grande verdade é que foi em Portugal e muito particularmente na cidade do Porto que o jovem artista António Pessoa marca o golo da tranquilidade e do dia para a noite passa a regime de pintor profissional.Dito e feito,tiro e queda. O artista conhece Alfredo Moreira um art dealer atípico,já que de um verdadeiro gentleman se trata.Durante oito produtivos anos estabelecem uma relação de cumplicidade,amizade e profissional,estimulando e desenvolvendo uma situação de profuso dinamismo ,quer no âmbito da produtividade artistica,quer no campo de estratégia comercial propriamente dita.Alfredo Moreira sabe criar,desenvolver e manter uma agenda de clientes por todo o país,enquanto António Pessoa,desde muito cedo começando a fazer justiça à sua reputação de excelente profissional... entrega-se ao oficio das artes plásticas com unhas e dentes,a um ritmo de fabricação, dizem os entendidos,só comparável a Pablo Picasso. E do dia para a noite,o jovem pintor torna-se num campeão de vendas o que leva Alfredo Moreira a não hesitar,passando a comprar pontualmente toda a sua produção. António Pessoa,independentemente do facto de aos vinte e muitos anos gozar do privilégio de uma situação financeira mais que invejável,progride a passos largos tanto no dominio técnico como nas possibilidades temáticas,de pura expressão plástica,pensamento e inspiração. Estes são os Anos Dourados em que o artista pela primeira vez na vida tem a certeza de que só há um caminho.Arte! Os seus tempos de nómada caprichoso e Dolce Vita mediterrânica iam ficando nas brumas da memória,para darem lugar a um novo periodo, uma nova maturidade e um estilo de vida radicalmente diferente. António Pessoa é agora um homem financeiramente privilegiado e artisticamente estimulado e realizado.Contudo,não por uma questão de humildade gratuita mas sim ,melhor dizendo,por pura consciência filosófica;não se deixa ofuscar pelo brilho do sucesso nem se deixa ensurdeceder pelo som estridente dos clarins da vitória. E a prova disto é sobejamente conhecida,já que ao longo dos anos que se seguem,nem a fama nem a glória,vão exercer qualquer efeito na sua personalidade e muito menos no seu comportamento,social e profissional. António Pessoa nestes primeiros anos da década de noventa compra um novo apartamento em Vila Nova de Gaia,deduz-se que como simples investimento,já que de seguida muda- se para o Algarve. Durante cerca de dois anos,vive,namora,trabalha e deleita-se no seu espaço favorito de Portugal.Aqui,em Armação de Pêra ,produz as suas primeiras telas panorâmicas de grande dimensão e de temática essencialmente histórica,exaltando o passado glorioso de Portugal,bem como alguns dramas que a todos nos dizem respeito. Desta época pode-se fazer especial alusão e referência à Conquista de Lisboa,Aljubarrota e 1755. Alfredo Moreira não se deixando surpreender,já que por então menos do artista sabe que não pode esperar,não deixa contudo de sentir uma crescente admiração por António Pessoa,pela sua prolífera imaginação e muito particularmente pela sua quase sobrehumana capacidade laboral. Os ares e a vida do Algarve,como sempre aliás,são de um modo geral, benéficos para o artista,contribuindo enormemente para um perfeito estado anímico como também para uma excelente condição fisica. A sua relação com Armanda Lamy,algarvia de gema e tradição,dá-lhe o equilibrio necessário para que se sinta no seu absoluto elemento. Viajam à noite por todo o Algarve e ao fim de semana são frequentes umas escapadelas a Sevilla,Vila Nova de mil Fontes,Évora e até Lisboa. No entanto,apesar do panorama idilico e ideal e como não há Bela sem senão,a relação entre os dois começa a deteriorar- se à medida que Armanda Lamy parece dar sinais de pretender muitissimo mais do que a Arte de Bem Namoriscar em Toda a Sela! António Pessoa,já pai de dois filhos e divorciado,não se sente à altura de semelhante compromisso.Ele e Armanda Lamy já levam um ano juntos e para o artista,tal como tudo o que é bom acaba,parece-lhe que a situação chegou a um grau de tensão insustentável. Começam as suas viajens cada vez mais frequentes ao Porto até ao dia em que decide ficar. Infeliz com a forma como tudo terminou,o artista entrega-se freneticamente ao trabalho,criando nesse ano em que de regresso volta a viver na cidade Invicta,um impressionante desfile de óleos sobre tela,acrilicos e aguarelas.Porém o Porto irremediavelmente entristece-o, provoca-lhe essa indomável e inexplicável sensação de nostalgia e penumbra emocional. De passagem por Vila Nova de Cerveira com o seu filho que aí estudava,resolve dar uma vista de olhos mais além do rio Minho.Galiza. Vigo!!! E aqui,em meados dos anos noventa,mais precisamente em 1996,dá-se o inicio da sua mundialmente conhecida Época Romântica e igualmente o inicio propriamente dito da sua brilhante carreira no país vizinho. Contudo,de minha justiça digo eu,não convém nem podemos esquecer de que foi no Porto,Portugal,onde António Pessoa,pelas mãos de Alfredo Moreira,obteve a sua primeira grande oportunidade,a qual,e a César o que é de César,o artista soube aproveitar com o brio,entusiasmo, honestidade e capacidade de trabalho que são,por assim dizer,as caracteristicas da sua marca! António Pessoa consegue um mega espaço não muito longe de Vila Nova de Cerveira,rodeado de bosques e dos bons ares da natureza com uma espectacular vista e bons vizinhos,rústicos mas de boa fé. As suas visitas a Cerveira ao principio assiduas tornam-se cada vez menos frequentes.De algum modo a ideia que tinha da terra de facto aos seus olhos acabou por não corresponder às expectativas. Alguns meses mais tarde António Pessoa descobre aquele que vai ser o estudio Atlantis,justamente em frente à praia do Samil,Vigo.Este vai ser durante cinco maravilhosos anos o seu atelier,casa e paraíso celestial. Vigo oferece-lhe aquilo que o Porto nunca teve, a capacidade de conceder-lhe"La Fiesta de la Vída",alegria,noites escaldantes,"La Movída" espanhola e amigos para toda a vida.Neste ambiente,acaba por reencontrar-se e e neste ambiente se inspira para concretizar efectivamente a sua mais intensa e frenética epopeia plástica. A Época Romântica! Ainda que a principio dilacerado pelo estado obsoleto em que a arte galega se tinha deixado adormecer,António Pessoa de alguma forma sabe superar esta realidade concebendo novas e mais contemporâneas versões imprimindo-lhes o exotismo necessário e a sexualidade ainda que sabiamente camuflada,adicionando os seus próprios ingredientes e especiarias através de uma culinária plástica estranhamente híbrida e ao mesmo tempo concentrada num modelo de linguagem e expressão artistica globalmente uniforme. Parece- me oportuno mencionar que António Pessoa,sempre fazendo justiça à sua reputação e cada vez mais igual a si mesmo,mesmo dando-se o indiscutivel caso de não ser de seu estilo fazer qualquer tipo de cedências,é e sempre tem sido sintoma da sua natureza como artista e comunicador,ir ao encontro do público utilizando uma linguagem plástica compreensivel. António Pessoa,um pouco em jeito de graça,conta que certa vez o Prof.Eduardo Calvet de Magalhães,fundador da escola e galeria Árvore do Porto,lhe disse directamente"você ,António Pessoa,é um pintor maldito, sabe o que as pessoas gostam e dá-lhes!" Há de facto uma mais que certa verdade nesta afirmação,seja com retoque ou com mais ou menos subtileza,o certo é que o artista sempre aplaudido por muitos e criticado por poucos,toma desde o inicio da sua carreira esta posição tipicamente Hollywoodesca,não tanto por calculismo adquirido mas sim de facto por natural genética tendência levando-o a absorver e logo e por conseguinte a espelhar as sugestões culturais,sociais e ambientais que mais lhe estão próximas. De bom presságio,esta caracteristica da sua natureza,vistas bem as coisas,de facto tem- lhe trazido mais beneficios que desvantagens. António Pessoa,qual Camaleão,ainda que sempre patente o selo do seu estilo de pose,jeito e pincelada,muda de temática como quem muda de camisa,esgotando todas as possibilidades e mais importante não permitindo que o tédio de maneira nenhuma invada o espectador,como um longo desfile de obviedades de nos fazer dormir e bocejar por mais. E é com estas e com outras que a partir de 1996,um artista luso entra em Espanha e sem muito hesitar,começa a deitar cartas na mesa. Conhece o galerista Carlos Alvarez,quem se apaixona imediatamente pela sua pintura,Alpide Villa Rodriguez,um dos maiores coleccionadores de arte em toda a Galiza,Faustino Moiños ,um jovem mecenas à maneira e por então dono do charmoso pub-galeria Pianíssimo...onde António Pessoa para além de expôr e bem vender as suas obras,encantava a noite viguesa com a sua soltura e sentimento musical no piano de cauda que hoje tem a sua assinatura... ...e finalmente,aquele que viria a ser o administrador da obra de António Pessoa em Portugal e norte de Espanha,Vicente Fernández Lago. Em 1998 Fernández Lago patrocina um dos mais importantes,controversos,originais e eruditos catálogos do artista português. The Black and White album ou El album Blanco y Negro.Uma primorosa selecção de cerca de 300 desenhos,grafite e carvão sobre papel,nos quais o artista decididamente revela ao público as suas capacidades técnicas e de pura expressão visual,plus um calibre de qualidade só testemunhado nos esboços de um Leonardo DaVinci,Salvador Dali,Pablo Picasso,Matisse e Rembrant.The Black and White album despertando na altura um considerável interesse,acaba por obter ao longo dos últimos anos o aplauso entendido da nova geração de criticos de arte,nomeadamente Marc Gilot,Anneke Frenken,Carol Damisch,Arturo Bermejo,Isabel Lostal,Ariana Martínez,Ulrike van Brug,Arthur Zimmerman,Carmen Olaya,etc... Escusado será mencionar Jacob Kotsky,já que para além de amigo pessoal do artista,é sem sombra de dúvida o maior entendido em tudo o que diz respeito a toda uma ampla dimensão envolvendo o personagem,vida e Obra de António Pessoa. Inocentemente,em 1998, o artista português acabava de provar que na sua Obra não há truques nem camuflagens tecnológicas,não por sistema e dedididamente jamais por necessidade ou falta de técnica e talento. Com o album Blanco y Negro,António Pessoa em terras de Espanha colhe um eco muito mais além das suas próprias expectativas,afirmando-se como "Maestro",como um dos últimos dinossauros do prestigioso conceito da velha e tradicional Escola das Belas Artes! No entanto e apesar de que as criticas ao The Black and White album não pudessem ter sido mais favoráveis,em termos de vendas reais não foi grande coisa.Os coleccionadores continuavam a preferir os óleos sobre tela,seja por snobismo,por tabu ou por puro investimento. E uma vez mais,neste campo de,digamos,matéria prima,António Pessoa estava no seu elemento,domínio e território. Aproveitando as lendas e mitos celtico- galaicos,declara uma feroz guerra às telas em branco plasmando contos e histórias onde "meigas", corcundas,gaiteiros,duendes,arlequins,frades e monjas,fantasmas, anjos e arcanjos coexistem num todo alegórico e cinemático.Ao emaranhar assim o verossimilhante e o fantástico,António Pessoa vence,conquista,convence e encanta,pintando e dizendo que as fantasias estão irremediavelmente entranhadas no mundo factual e é absolutamente inútil e contraproducente separá-los! Agora sim,em óleo sobre tela,António Pessoa já não necessita de mais argumentos e Galiza recebe- o de braços abertos ,em vendas,status social,prestigio e devoção. António Pessoa em 2001 e já casado com Irene Luz Iglesias Dona,já é cidadão espanhol,artista português e património galego! António Pessoa,hoje é mais que un artista,mais que um comunicador do universo plástico contemporâneo,mais que um modelo que muitos colegas de oficio e profissão tentam seguir. António Pessoa hoje é uma Marca,uma referência exacta dentro do núcleo artistico total.Um jovem artista prematuramente bem instalado no projecto de vida,familia e profissão que ele e os seus colaboradores souberam inteligentemente conceber,pacientemente estruturar e agora, em jeito de manutenção vão seguindo o mesmo critério de dinamismo,sobriedade e equilibrio,elementos os quais justamente se adaptam como uma luva à personalidade contemplativa do artista. Entre a figura pública e o homem,existe a mesma diferença que entre o dia e a noite.É muito frequente ainda que muitos se enganem na hora de avaliar António Pessoa,não na sua indiscutivel qualidade artistica,mas sim na sua postura pessoal perante a vida,perante si mesmo,perante os que o rodeiam e num caso muito particular e crucial,perante o mercado da arte e todos os que nele estão directa ou indirectamente envolvidos. Frequentememte criticado por ser arrogante,altivo e até déspota,apenas felizmente,por aqueles que não o conhecem,para não falar dos invejositos de meia tigela que da má lingua se viciam porque melhor não sabem fazer nem dizer;António Pessoa sem grande esforço,diga- se de passagem,faz ouvidos de mouco,já que tudo joga a seu favor para dar-se ao luxo de não fazer caso a escupidelas sem saliva e mordidelas sem caninos. Nada melhor que para um pintor do seu calibre para pura e simplesmente estar-se nas tintas...e mesmo que não estivesse,verdade seja dita,também não teria tempo para isso! Claro que me refiro essencialmente a galerias de arte da segunda divisão que pensam que são grande coisa,aparentando aquela altivez saloia dos pobres pretenciosos a Jet Set com patéticos ares de snobismo de curso por correspondência,uma formação artistica empiricamente insuficiente e pior de tudo uma perspectiva do mercado de arte global absolutamente obsoleta e desqualificada. Uma vez mais,perante esta hilariante realidade,António Pessoa desconsoladamente não tem outro remédio que recorrer (metaforicamente falando) a anestesia local!Desliga,esquece e ponto final. Hoje,como se não bastasse o Ciclo Zodiaco para lhe tirar toda a produção actual das mãos e garantir-lhe um nivel de vida muito mais além das suas necessidades básicas,por assim dizer...Hoje,como se não bastasse o infinito leque de luxuosos hoteis prontamente disponiveis para expõr a sua Obra...Hoje,artista António Pessoa,é um profissional que sabe com milimétrica precisão aquilo que quer,como,quando e onde...e em que bases de acordo e modelo de trabalho poderá eventualmente colaborar com as Top galerias de arte. Isto nada tem a vêr com arrogância,mas sim, aliás como qualquer cidadão com dois dedos de testa pode facilmente concluir,com um elevado grau de exigência, um notável calibre de honestidade,postura, atitude e principalmente um imaculado sentido de profissionalismo! É este António Pessoa,um corajoso homem que sobreviveu com notável dignidade e dedicação,a todos estes anos de boas e más experiências no mercado da arte contemporânea,absorvendo e assimilando conhecimentos,ensinamentos,calo e maturidade. Ao que tudo indica o artista e comunicador ,Hoje...prepara-se tranquilamente para o Amanhã,na certeza porém de que na pior das hipóteses tudo irá ser estruturado da única forma possivel. À sua maneira! Por conseguinte,o inventor da New Era,ainda vai dar muito mais que falar,mas decididamente à sua maneira e tudo o que não vá de encontro a este nobre conceito é o mesmo que dizer que nunca aconteceu nem vai ter lugar. António Pessoa deste modo e desta maneira,acaba não só por estar no mundo da arte com nobreza,prestigio,dignidade e profissionalismo,como também por enobrecer,prestigiar e engrandecer a classe dos jovens artistas plásticos. Efectivamente desde hà uns tempos até à data , António Pessoa é sistematicamente consultado por colegas artistas de todos os cinco continentes,pedindo-lhe conselhos na esperança de obterem respostas a infindáveis e tumultuosas dúvidas,na esperança de sentirem nas mãos o molho de chaves capaz de abrir algumas portas deste mundo elitista e impiedoso que é o mercado de arte hoje em dia. António Pessoa,um homem com o mundo nas mãos,não se esforça por aparentar humildade,pois a sua é legitima,natural e latente.Um artista português que embora tranquilamente soberano,não deixa para amanhã o que pode fazer hoje.Um homem sobriamente tranquilo,porém decididamente um homem de acção.Sem dúvida as qualidades flagrantes que o têem transportado sem especial esforço até ao lugar ao sol onde hoje se encontra,não menosprezando a sua inegável genialidade ,esse talento exuberante e abundante,o qual aliado a uma estranha e rara capacidade laboral,fazem a quimica,o Todo,o fenómeno,a marca António Pessoa. Amanhã,que é quando o hoje deixa de ser hoje para ser ontem,o artista português uma vez mais viaja a Nova Iorque,Chicago,Los Angeles e San Francisco para reestabelecer o ideia do seu Projecto.Escusado será dizer que não serão necessários grandes preâmbulos de retórica,nem exaustivas sessões de negociações bilaterais,como quem desesperada e obstinadamente busca soluções mediocres "alternativas". Efectivamente,António Pessoa desde hà muito tempo que leva "take it or leave it" escrito no brilho do seu olhar,na imobilidade desconcertante que só uma profunda segurança e tranquilidade permitem. E como se tudo isto não fosse mais do que suficiente,a New Era do artista luso atingiu o centro do alvo,apanhando o mundo intelectual de surpresa e colocando o conceito de arte contemporânea numa situação embaraçosamente dificil. António Pessoa,sem tirar nem pôr,sem pré- avisos,enfadonhos preliminares,voluminosas teses nem conferências de imprensa,deu o seu vanguardiata conceito denominado Contemporary Plus como dado adquirido,pintado e assinado.Dito e feito,sempre invariavelmente à sua maneira! E à sua maneira será! Contemporary Plus,fez com que a muitos se lhes caissem os dentes, ainda não de todo recuperados do impacto da New Era- António Pessoa, o conceito aparentemente inocente e aparentemente simplesmente estético de Contemporary Plus,vai tomando gradualmente uma função clinicamente devastadora,de facto provocando um efeito que vai fazendo com que a noção de arte contemporânea seja uma corrente digna de museu,dignamente "démodé",elegantemente ultrapassada e historicamente arquivada! E a questão que fica por agora suavemente pairando no ar,é: Que mais cartas-surpresa terá António Pessoa escondidas na manga? Um Ás de Ouros? Casa da Calçada . Relais & Châteaux AMARANTE ~~ PORTUGAL tel . 00351 . 255 410 830 ffafonso@casadacalcada.com www.casadacalcada.com Exposição de pintura de António Pessoa,na Casa da Calçada . Relais& Châteaux,inauguração dia 12 de Maio 2007 pelas 19:00 e patente ao público até 12 de Agosto,2007. Retrospectiva da época Romântica,1997- 2002,realizada em Vigo,Galiza e uma das mais importantes colecções do artista. Por muito estranho e até exaustivo que possa eventualmente dar a entender,nunca é demasiado desenvolver novas abordagens em jeito de mera análise e se assim o desejamos até de contínua investigação,sobre a mundialmente badalada Época Romântica de António Pessoa,que como é do conhecimento geral consta de um espaço de tempo entre 1997 e 2002. Informa-se repetidamente porque nunca é demais salientar,que estes cinco anos são de especial relevância primordialmente pelo calibre de super- produção a qual efectivamente a distingue e a destaca de tudo quanto foi feito em tão reduzido espaço de tempo por artistas de todas as nacionalidades nos últimos cem anos,com excepção de uns poucos,designadamente Pablo Picasso,Salvador Dali,Jackson Pollock,DiegoRivera e talvez Fernando Botero. Infelizmente,apesar do grande desenvolvimento técnico,estético e até filosófico-criativo que António Pessoa tem de facto demonstrado desde 2003 até aos dias de hoje,é bastante improvável que o artista português volte a repetir semelhante proeza,pelo menos em termos quantitativos. De facto a Época Romântica de António Pessoa vai-se tornando mais famosa e mais consagrada justamente em proporção aos anos que nos separam do fim da mesma,por variadissimas razões mas essencialmente pela quase sobre-humana abundância de unidades pictóricas,sejam desenhos,aguarelas,acrílicos sobre papel,collages,toda uma infindável gama de técnicas mistas e claro,a grande obra por excelência,óleos sobre tela,centenas dos quais de grandes dimensões. É de sublinhar a satisfação que todos partilhamos com esta mostra de pintura de excelente qualidade,particularmente tratando-se de uma das mais belas cidades portuguêsas e sem minimizar a felicidade do artista em saber a sua obra uma vez mais disponivel para o público nacional. O Pincel ataca de novo ! The Brush strikes again (O Pincel ataca de novo ) é o retomar da colecção Art on White iniciada em 2006 e agora surgindo numa refrescante e nova versão de 2007,uma premonição de futuros trabalhos do artista,naturalmente uns mais felizes do que outros como não podia deixar de ser.Longe ainda está o separar o trigo do joio para aquilo que inevitavelmente um dia será o Best Of 2007. A colecção Art on White 2006 de António Pessoa teve o aplauso do público,dos criticos de arte e de alguns galeristas os quais um a um foram considerando Art on White como uma das melhores séries deste artista plástico desde o celebérrimo Black and White album 1997-1998. Talvez a mais relevante diferença é o facto de António Pessoa hoje em dia parecer ter-se livrado de algumas demasiado obvias influências que dez anos atrás o bombardeavam incessantemente no exercicio plástico e até no pensamento. Talvez o interregno de 2005 tenha sido afinal de contas o tempo de reflexão necessário a um corte drástico com os fantasmas do passado,ou talvez simplesmente o nascimento de uma nova filosofia de vida dando lugar a uma nova perspectiva plástica e consequentemente a uma nova linha estética. António Pessoa em 2006 surpreendendo todos e mais ninguém surge mais além do conceito average contemporâneo com The NEW ERA . A chuva de boas e más criticas não se fez esperar.A predominância de um positivismo geral falou por si mesma e The NEW ERA foi recebida com entusiasmo e alegria,sem grande espalhafato nem levantar muita polémica. Para polémico já temos o artista,bem mais controverso que as suas próprias criações artisticas.Este é o boca-a-boca e é realmente verdade. A minha humilde opinião como critico e professor de pintura e História de Arte,pode até eventualmente ser talvez a mais objectiva,dado que a minha relação com o artista é coisa recente,ao contrário de Luis Santiago,Vicente Fernández Lago,Pierre Fontanals,Nancy Igartiburu e naturalmente Jacob Kotsky,que são colaboradores e amigos intimos de António Pessoa ,já de longa data. A minha análise,a qual confere-me o direito de me manifestar segundo o modelo em vigor de livre expressão,leva-me a concluir uma infindável teia de contradições tanto na vida como na obra do artista. E a conclusão à qual eu chego é que com António Pessoa há que forçosamente separar o trigo do joio e o homem do artista. De uma modo geral considero que a obra de Pessoa é excelente,não pretendendo com isto dizer que penso que tudo o que ele dá à luz é bom. Estou plenamente convencido de que o próprio artista tem nitida consciência deste eventual desnivel de qualidade,coisa que segundo me consta não parece consistir numa preocupação para o próprio mas sim uma realidade inevitável a uma sempre contínua mega-produção,o que é o caso. A extenuante salgalhada de influências que marcam a Época Romântica de António Pessoa,1997- 2002,onde modelos como Francis Bacon,Georg Baselitz,Pablo Picasso,Henry Matisse,Paul Cadmus,Alberto Giacometti,Vieira da Silva,Frank Stella,Miró,Andy Warhol e até mesmo Salvador Dali...parecem ter sido arrumadas,empacotadas e enviadas por correio para o reino do esquecimento. António Pessoa, milagrosamente surge com The NEW ERA em 2006 mais do que nunca igual a si próprio. Obras como August Storm,The Brain e Contemporary Plus,entre outras, marcam a diferença,acentuam um certo minimalismo e estudada simplicidade conceptual,deixando claro um apuradissimo critério de qualidade e ao mesmo tempo conservando a riqueza das cores e das formas da mais bela tradição das Belas Artes. World Art Gallery António Pessoa . The NEW ERA World Art Gallery . António Pessoa foca especialmente a sua mais recente e mais contemporânea linha de trabalho. A Nova Era, "The NEW ERA ", iniciada na Primavera de 2006 e recebendo posteriormente as melhores criticas e um interesse geral por parte do grande público. A Nova Era de António Pessoa segundo a critica especializada,foi muito mais além das tão repetitivas últimas tendências da arte contemporânea,o que aliás não é de estranhar tendo em conta o elevado calibre técnico e cultural do artista já para não adiantar longos discursos sobre a sua sobejamente conhecida e admirada experiência e veterania em Atelier. Um dos principais objectivos de World Art Gallery.António Pessoa é de facto dar a conhecer ao mundo não só a obra do artista português,mas também fornecer uma nova imagem de Portugal num contexto internacional e muito particularmente visando uma elite erudita e culta, sensível não só às artes plásticas como a um todo global no qual sem dúvida Portugal deve ter cada vez mais um papel de destaque e prestigio. Esta tem sido a persistente visão de António Pessoa aplicada a uma energia e sentido de trabalho de equipa cujos resultados já se podem visualizar,sentir e assimilar. World Art Gallery não é meramente um espaço online mas sim um projecto que engloba uma quantidade de informação ultrapassando o dominio das artes plásticas e açambarcando um modelo português,ainda que protagonizado por António Pessoa,acaba por lançar a curto,médio e longo prazo, uma certa imagem de Portugal e seguramente uma boa imagem aos olhos do mundo erudito. Este tem e continua a ser o nosso modelo de trabalho,realizado com o genuino prazer de todos os que se envolvem num plano de acção segundo convicções genuinas,as quais ao fim e ao cabo têem sido o nosso denominador comum. Só o futuro o dirá,porém parece-me oportuno adiantar que esta viril personalidade chamada António Pessoa,honra a cada momento a memória dos Grandes Portugueses de todos os tempos. Envolvido num arrojado projecto internacional,Worldwide,o artista português conta de antemão com o apoio de colaboradores em vários campos de acção,intervenção e divulgação,de diversas regiões da Europa e Estados Unidos.Este multicultural aspecto desta grande equipa internacional faz o fascinio e o bonito deste projecto,o qual para além da promoção da obra de Pessoa,acaba por defender valores que tanta falta nos fazem,num mundo cada vez mais individualista,robotizado e materialista. Tal como a obra e todos os sonhos deste artista,World Art Gallery não se limita a falar insipidamente de cores e formas,mas sim salientar a verdadeira mensagem de cada quadro,num esforço continuo e cheio de prazer e orgulho em manifestar uma postura sublimemente positiva e extremamente humana que afinal de contas é o selo inconfundivel de um grande português no mundo das artes e da comunicação global chamado António Pessoa. The Patron António Pessoa , 2006 Após quase um ano de interregno,2005,em que o artista viaja permanentemente tanto por questões profissionais como por mero lazer, talvez por um lado necessitando de um longo periodo de reflexão e de uma nova contemplação do mundo e por outro lado satisfazendo a urgência de estabelecer novos contactos ; surge em 2006 com um novo look na sua arte visual,surpreendendo tudo e todos e muito provável até que surpreendendo-se a si mesmo. Utilizando um nova fusão de ténicas mistas,desde collage,digital work, fotografia,aguarela e acrilicos,plus uma combinação de cores e formas cujo resultado é quase sempre um impacto visual marcando súbita presença,não contundente mas sim meramente impositivo,ainda que predominantemente cativante e motivador. "The Patron" ,O Mecenas,é talvez das obras mais atipicas da expressão da New Era,deixando ainda transparecer vestígios da Época Romântica,e até do periodo de Barcelona e Chicago. Apesar de feições contemporâneas, "The Patron" sugere um certo ar de neo-cubismo,ou até um pouco ao estilo de Georges Braque,um toque de revivalismo em plena Nova Era muito ao jeito das obras dos tempos de Vigo. Um quadro repleto de propositado mistério,muito no estilo desconcertante do António Pessoa dos velhos tempos,adivinha-se que se trata de um auto-retrato não só pelas nitidas parecenças do olhar como pela pose que mal se vislumbra mas que se sente. Pouco mais posso adiantar sobre "The Patron" sem a sempre conveniente informação fidedigna de Jacob Kotsky,a não ser a minha leitura mais ou menos objectiva,pouco ou muito subjectiva. Só realmente o tempo e o distanciamento necessário e imprescindivel poderão fazer uma mais justa avaliação e análise deste quadro,como aliás costuma ser a regra geral,ainda para mais sendo "The Patron" uma obra fora do contexto visual da New Era de António Pessoa,2006. Matters of the Flesh António Pessoa . 2002 Esta técnica mista sobre tela , "Matters of the Flesh",não sendo certamente dos melhores trabalhos do artista realizados em 2002,é contudo bastante representativo tanto das suas inquietações de nivel pessoal e privado como também das mudanças de critério plástico a que se propunha mais uma vez. Segundo Jacob Kotsky e mesmo Pierre Fontanals,existe um certo mistério envolvendo o verdadeiro significado desta obra. A relação de António Pessoa com a sua esposa Irene Luz Dona,atingia em 2002 o seu estado mais caótico onde , segundo parece , as ambivalências eram o pão nosso de cada dia. Irene mostrava-se cada vez mais uma mulher possessiva ao ponto de uma obsessão crónica e António Pessoa por então já detentor de uma das maiores coleções dos nossos tempos,começava a dar visiveis sinais de saturação de Vigo e de todo um provincianismo artistico que em vez da graça que lhe dava anos antes,agora parecia provocar-lhe uma angustiante fobia. Segundo algumas insinuações de Jacob Kotsky,este "Matters of the Flesh" pode muito possivelmente tratar-se nada mais nada menos do que do retrato de Irene Luz Dona,a mulher que nessa altura submetia o artista a um estranho jogo de pressões que afinal de contas acabou por fazer com que o matrimónio rompesse pelas costuras. 2002,acaba por ser o ano decididamente menos produtivo dos cinco anos da Época Romântica de Pessoa.Ele e Irene Luz Dona agora passam grande parte do tempo viajando por toda a Espanha,Barcelona,Sitges,Ibiza,Castellón e Sevilla,vivendo em hoteis dispendiosos e já partilhando um desequilibrio emocional o qual muito mais cedo do que se esperava provocou a separação entre os dois amantes e aventureiros. Ao contrário do que muitos pensam,a Época Romântica de António Pessoa não podia ter finalizado de pior maneira,deixando atrás de si um rastro de frustração,infelicidade e impotência. No entanto,também ia deixar um rastro devastadoramente positivo na forma de uma das maiores e monumentais coleções de pintura dos nossos dias! Falling in Love António Pessoa . 2001 No ano de 2001,António Pessoa encontra-se oficialmente casado pela segunda vez na sua vida,desta vez com uma mulher espanhola,natural de Vigo,Irene Luz Iglesias Dona. A sua vida,o seu trabalho e o seu estado emocional,criativo e animico mudam gradualmente à medida que se estabelece aquela que seria uma senão a mais efervescente relação da vida do pintor português. Irene Luz Dona mostra-se à altura da situação,pelo menos nos primeiros tempos,revelando-se uma musa em toda a acepção da palavra e uma companheira de armas e de Atelier justo à medida de uma personalidade individualista e sui generis como a do artista,de inteligência aguçada e com um sentido particularmente apurado para as artes visuais. Sobre esta cinemática,maravilhosa e ao mesmo tempo turbulenta relação haveria muito que contar,em todo o caso é de sublinhar a derradeira contribuição que esta mulher espanhola deu para o fim da tão badalada Época Romântica de António Pessoa,Vigo,1997-2002. Este quadro "Falling in Love" parece-me ser mais que significativo,simbólico, na medida em que os dois se apaixonam loucamente partilhando três anos de aventuras,arte plásticas,viagens,uma especie de matrimónio predestinado a um desfilar de acontecimentos os quais iam mudar radicalmente a vida do artista,como aliás se veio a verificar. Efectivamente a Época Romântica termina no preciso momento em que os dois se separam em 2002. António Pessoa passa três meses no Algarve,um periodo de reflexão e de decisivas tomadas de decisões que iriam culminar com a sua definitiva retirada para a capital catalana,Barcelona. Ladies Night António Pessoa - 2000 Uma vez mais,António Pessoa resolve dar um ar da sua graça e muito em particular das loucas noites de Vigo. A Época Romántica reflecte a vivência urbana de uma cidade em pleno apogeu da "Movida" espanhola onde tabus e preconceitos são minimizados por uma nova mentalidade da juventude de Espanha. Escusado será dizer que a Época Romântica não deve o nome que tem por simple acaso.Efectivamente António Pessoa durante estes cinco anos pinta durante as tardes e à noite perde-se no turbilhão de boémia,bares e discotecas e inserido num amplo circulo de amigos dentro do qual a bisexualidade é encarada como a coisa mais natural do mundo. Pode-se afirmar que António Pessoa entre 1997 e 2002,pinta de Vigo para o Mundo,emocionalmente inspirado e estimulado por uma cidade que nunca dorme e onde o artista facilmente encontra a melhor alternativa à cidade do Porto já por então começando a dar tristes sinais de apatia,facto que infelizmente se foi agravando até aos dias de hoje. Neste esplêndido Ladies Night,acrilico sobre tela de 1999,António Pessoa projecta uma visão moderada de puro lesbianismo.Uma obra que decididamente não pretende provocar mas sim atenuar e muito particularmente defender o direito à diferença. António Pessoa prova que é possivel abordar todos os temas sem cair na vulgaridade obscena,pelo contrário elevar esta e cada temática a um expoente de máximo requinte,elegância e estética graciosa. É com esta atitude blasé e jovial,que afinal de contas toda a feliz Época Romántica se desenvolve,pelas mãos e Know How de um artista absolutamente afinado na sua conduta de comunicação através da arte e muito particularmente com a sempre presente noção de servir o público sem o ferir! In the Night António Pessoa - 1999 Em plena Época Romântica,já com um nome implantado na Galiza e com um mercado de braços abertos para a sua obra na vizinha Espanha,António Pessoa em 1999,produzindo mais do que nunca em toda a sua vida,sente que pode dar- se ao luxo de regressar a um tipo de expressão plástica bastante mais Pop Art e eventualmente optando por padrões de certo minimalismo e construtivismo conceptual,tudo isto naturalmente fora do âmbito do conceito visual plástico do público galego. É por esta altura que Prof.Eduardo Calvet de Magalhães,um dos fundadores da Árvore na cidade do Porto,começa a interessar-se profundamente tanto pela obra do artista como pelo original e irreverente personagem.Igualmente em 1999,Vicente Fernández Lago dedica toda a sua galeria de arte de dois andares na cidade de Vigo única e exclusivamente à pintura de Pessoa.Também em meados de 1999,Jacob Kotsky dá inicio aos seus apontamentos biográficos sobre a vida e obra do artista.Kotsky,por motivos familiares,designadamente a morte de sua esposa num violento acidente de viação em Los Angeles e da tentativa de suicidio de seu filho,resolve retirar-se para as ilhas Canarias onde ainda reside actualmente. Também no ano de 1999,depois de uma visita de estudo a Londres na companhia de Prof.Eduardo Calvet de Magalhães,começa a fazer continuas viagens a Barcelona e Sitges,muito possivelmente já idealizando um novo espaço vital para um futuro muito próximo,como aliás se veio a verificar. "In the Night" um dos quadros talvez mais emblemáticos do principio de uma rotura com a pintura galega,pode também ser avaliado como um dos primeiros sintomas de um profundo e latente desejo de mudança. E assim foi de facto! pintor Barreiro pintando un gaiteiro António Pessoa . 1998 António Pessoa em 1998 rende-se à evidência da pintura galega,decididamente não com a atitude de impotente resignação mas sim com uma saudável e lúdica postura de adaptação. Apesar da modernidade e da efervescente vida nocturna de Vigo e de toda a Galiza urbana,por assim dizer,no campo das artes plásticas verifica- se uma teimosa apetência por uma linha muito paralela às primeiras vanguardas do século vinte,coexistindo com uma abordagem temática tipicamente galega. Artistas consagrados no noroeste de Espanha como Laxeiro e muito particularmente Jaime Quessada,apesar de alto nível técnico,seguem uma estética vincadamente picassiana.Pepe Barreiro,não foge à regra e nem demonstra vestigios de que esse facto represente para ele nem para o seu público local,grande motivo de preocupação. António Pessoa dedica-lhe este óleo sobre tela,criando um interessante jogo de contrastes algo caricatos,entre a pintura de Barreiro,a cultura plástica galega,o próprio personagem e obviamente o estilo inconfundivel de Pablo Picasso. Todo lo que imaginas es poco António Pessoa . 1998 "Todo lo que imaginas es poco",cujo título penso que dispensa tradução,é talvez o paradigma de uma fusão de estilos e modelos que no ano de 1998 de alguma forma inundavam a noção conceptual de um artista subconscientemente tentando organizar todo um leque de influências num só Todo. António Pessoa a partir de 1997,altura em que deixa a cidade do Porto para se instalar em Vigo,é violentamente confrontado com a pintura galega que lhe parece não só pueril como tematicamente centrada numa cultura a qual não parece oferecer muitas portas abertas para novas invenções e de um público pouco receptivo aquilo que por então se poderia entender por Últimas Tendências ou muito simplesmente arte contemporânea. Apesar de tudo,como é sabido,o artista luso en terras galegas ao longo dos anos que se seguem consegue de uma forma notável projectar sobre tela uma nova visão da Plástica Gallega,o que lhe concede com relativa facilidade uma entrada sem grandes obstáculos no mercado do norte de Espanha. No entanto este artista português na Galiza sabe de antemão que o seu futuro de pensamento artistico e criativo vai ter mais tarde ou mais cedo que abrir asas e voar rumo a outros hemisférios de comunicação plástica. E é precisamente nesta dimensão de discernimento,que António Pessoa opta sabiamente por conservar as suas reservas de modelo e inspiração,não só intactas como também,justamente,em plena evolução. Apesar do panorama geral da arte na Galiza,António Pessoa sustenta uma genuina admiração por alguns Mestres galegos,como Jaime Quessada,Rafael Alonso,Laxeiro,Vidal Souto e até Pepe Barreiro. Não obstante os seus planos para o presente e para o futuro englobam forçosamente outros valores de expressão plástica,tanto dos Mestres das primeiras vanguardas do século vinte,como Matisse,MarcChagall,GeorgesBraque,Tanguy,Picasso,J uan Gris,Kandinsky,Paul Cadmus e Miró;como inevitavelmente e sempre Maria Helena Vieira da Silva,Andy Warhol,Francis Bacon,Frank Stella,Jackson Pollock,Fernando Botero. É pois nesta atmosfera macroclimática de modelos e influências que se vai desenvolver toda a Época Romântica,até 2002,ano em que Pessoa se instala em Barcelona para uma nova aventura artistica,social,emocional e decididamente internacional. La velada del marinaje António Pessoa,1997 - Black and White album Na retrospectiva necessária e especificamente na análise da Época Romântica de António Pessoa,nunca é demais salientar a importância do Black and White album,uma coleção de desenhos realizada entre 1997 e 1998,editada em catálogo em 1999. Nunca antes nem nunca depois o artista se presta a demonstrar os seus dons como desenhador por excelência,como nestes dois anos durante os quais consegue a proeza de concluir cerca de 800 trabalhos de carvão e grafite sobre papel. Ainda que o resultado total tenha sido de uma polivalência camaleónica a congruência subsiste muito mais no estilo do que obviamente na temática,a qual dispara continua e sucessivamente através de um universo de múltiples abordagens. Considerada pela grande maioria dos criticos como talvez a fase de mais qualidade de pura expressão artistica de toda a Época Romântica, o The Black and White album ilustra os recônditos mais controversos do artista,através de uma navegação introspectiva como analitica a qual vai conduzindo o trabalho até situações tão eclécticas quanto a então irrequieta curiosidade,espirito provocador e até um bem visivel e bem afinado sentido do caricato e do ridiculo do artista ,podiam de facto conceber. E um bom exemplo desta tese é este "La velada del marinaje",um quadro de leitura subjectiva suscitando de imediato um raciocinio abstracto,apesar de veia nitidamente figurativa,não se chega a entender muito bem a situação pretendida. Contudo o homo-erotismo aqui bem patente leva- nos a deduzir uma existência de uma certa denúncia,ainda que sem julgamentos de valor,de uma realidade bastante frequente entre seres do mesmo sexo quando condicionados a uma situação de isolamento prolongado e naturalmente desprovido da presença de elementos do sexo femenino. Muito ao contrário de Pablo Picasso,Salvador Dali e até da genial portuguêsa,Paula Rêgo, a abordagem que António Pessoa faz ao erotismo ao longo de toda a sua obra é meramente passageira,algo camuflada e essencialmente ligeira. No entanto,particularmente no The Black and White album existem um bom número de registros de teor cruamente erótico,ainda que dispersos e decididamente sem obedecer nem implicar qualquer tipo de obsessão. "La velada del marinaje" é talvez das obras do album que pode conter uma linguagem plástica especialmente crua ainda que extremamente caricata. Andalucia - António Pessoa,1997 Já com bastante experiência no país vizinho,é contudo a partir de 1997 que António Pessoa começa a sua carreira e a divulgação da sua obra em Espanha. Apesar de viver em Vigo,viaja frequentemente por toda a Peninsula, dedicando este óleo sobre tela a uma das suas regiões favoritas. Andaluzia. O seu gosto e admiração pela Festa Brava faz- se notar com bastante frequência em muitos dos seus trabalhos dos anos noventa. Apesar da crueldade do tema,António Pessoa tem o pudor e a elegância de tratar a Tauromaquia sem a vital necessidade de uma abordagem demasiado realista,que é como quem diz,sanguinária. O resultado visual é então mais emblemático que propriamente vil e contundente o que nos leva a concluir que o artista apenas pretende um pensamento meramente cultural ou até turistico,contrariamente à abordagem que Pablo Picasso durante toda a sua vida e obra fez da Tauromaquia,que como é sobejamente do conhecimento universal,era fruto de uma verdadeira "aficción",para não dizer obsessão. Neste Andalucia,1997,António Pessoa consegue o movimento e o momento de uma tourada tipicamente espanhola,através de um curioso e original projecto de imagem dupla É de salientar o facto de que o pintor em 1997 acabava de concluir uma das suas épocas pictóricas de inspiração mais contemporânea. Convém referir que ao deixar Portugal para residir em Espanha,a partir de 1997,António Pessoa é apanhado de surpresa,primeiro com a pintura galega,depois com a pintura espanhola em geral,muito particularmente com as obras dos mestres do século vinte. Estas interferências provam ter exercido uma influência quase radical na linha da sua obra.Oficialmente,em 1997 ao passar a viver em Espanha, António Pessoa dá inicio à sua polivalente e super-produtiva Época Romântica,1997-2002. the Get Away - António Pessoa 2004 Marcadamente influenciado por Maria Helena Vieira da Silva,António Pessoa explora o tema Metropolis a partir dos primeiros anos da década de noventa. Por então trabalhando com a Galeria de Arte Almacem de Alfredo Moreira e para enorme surpresa do artista todas as obras inspiradas nesta temática são vendidas do dia para a noite,facto que logicamente leva o galerista Alfredo Moreira a entusiasmar António Pessoa no sentido de ampliar e desenvolver mais obra dentro desta linha,desejo que o artista naturalmente concede de bom grado e grande energia criativa e laboral. Com o passar dos anos António Pessoa inevitavelmente vai perdendo os vestigios das influências de Vieira da Silva,cujo resultado visual se vai tornando e desenvolvendo dentro e mais além de uma linha estética pode-se dizer que inovadora. Com a sua longa passagem por Vigo e Espanha total,o artista vai deixando gradualmente de lado este modelo que tanto lhe agrada,optando por outras expressões plásticas com bastante mais potencial comunicativo dentro do seio do público espanhol. Contudo,em Barcelona,finais de 2003 o artista decide uma vez mais retomar este fascinante mundo de panorâmicas urbanas,quer seguindo uma veia hiper-realista,quer optando por um certo abstracionismo. The Get Away ,António Pessoa,Barcelona 2004,é um óleo sobre tela de fortes contrastes visuais e cunhado por esse rigoroso,ainda que espontâneo,traço de exímio desenhador característico do pintor, coexistindo com uma privilegiada liberdade de expressão plástica e uma vitalidade de movimento e action painting notáveis Bright Changes . António Pessoa 2004 - Picasso pintando Dora Maar - (técnica mista ) Bright Changes,António Pessoa,Barcelona 2004,é o retomar da colecção Picasso painting Dora Maar. O artista uma vez mais debruça-se nos amores e desamores do maior fenómeno das artes do século vinte,Pablo Picasso e a sua estranha e perversa relação com a pintora e fotógrafa Dora Maar. Um curioso trabalho de técnica mista onde Dora Maar aparece nesta obra sem o usual toque de sofrimento com que Picasso nos tempos em que a pintou a retratava,chegando ao ponto de desarticular as formas fazendo-a parecer pouco menos que um monstro. Neste quadro,António Pessoa,muito possivelmente resolve atenuar a tensão, concedendo-lhe um ar quase angelical. Talvez por isso o titulo seja o mais adequado,proporcional aos tons suaves e pasteis pelos que o artista decide optar. Um trabalho generoso de António Pessoa no contexto febril de uma colecção abordando uma das mais controversas relações da vida de Picasso. Preto no Branco Enquanto Worldwide-António Pessoa,um projecto que realmente promete agrupar toda uma série de ingredientes de interesse geral e como não podia deixar de ser,não poupando esforços no sentido de garantir uma análise objectiva e profunda segundo um exigente critério de qualidade,por muito peculiar e até pouco erudito que pareça promete igualmente seguir uma empolgante história quase em jeito de saga,digna de uma mega-produção de Hollywood. E aqui surge naturalmente a velha questão,aliás perfeitamente lícita e razoável.E porquê? Muito bem.Porque pura e simplesmente a própria natureza do artista, aliás como têem vindo a comprovar todos os trabalhos biográficos sobre a sua vida e obra,sendo Mr.Jacob Kotsky indiscutivelmente o grande pioneiro nesta matéria,como se tem vindo a verificar desde a sua loquaz participação literária no catálogo La Época Romántica de Antonio Pessoa, com a esmerada tradução do inglês ao castelhano por Pierre Fontanals; a própria natureza do artista,dizia eu,de uma forma tão natural,espontânea e inevitável como o generalizado conceito do destino,tem-se responsabilizado por conduzi-lo desde tenra idade até aos dias de hoje, a situações perfeitamente cinemáticas,justamente tão envoltas num enredo de sedução,arte,aventuras,sexo,drama e mistério como os grandes clássicos do cinema que todos nós conhecemos e com os quais partilhamos de alguma maneira emoções,inquietações,entretenimento e até informação,cultura e conhecimento universal. A estreita amizade e cumplicidade que se gerou entre o artista e Jacob Kotsky a partir de finais da década de noventa,fez progressivamente com que António Pessoa se disponibilizasse ao longo destes últimos anos a revelar confessáveis e até inconfessáveis episódios da sua vida,os quais Jacob Kotsky começou,continuou e continua a recompilar,com notável dedicação e cuidadoso sentido de análise,efeito e causa,tanto a obra como as aventuras e desventuras da vida do artista,todo um fascinante conjunto de situações e circunstâncias as quais obviamente acabam por ser um sólido manual de consulta e reflexão,para todos os interessados em entender as oscilações temáticas,os cambios drásticos de expressão plástica,elementos estes que são sempre e obrigatóriamente o espelho mais absoluto e credivel da vida intima e pessoal do artista. Neste sentido,Jacob Kotsky tem tido um papel predominante na análise e divulgação da verdadeira essência humana de António Pessoa,bastante mais além do pigmento sobre a tela,bastante mais nua e crua do que o próprio artista esperava e até desejaria que tivesse sido,um trabalho sem pompa nem circunstância na precisa e justa medida de hiper-realismo a que nos tem habituado,sem olhar a meios nem entrando em devaneios com o simples,directo propósito e única finalidade de atingir um e apenas um resultado.A verdade! A partir do momento em que António Pessoa se instala em Barcelona,2002,e muito especificamente após a publicação do catálogo La Época Romántica,Jacob Kotsky passa a ser um primordial e imprescindivel ponto de referência no que respeita a um conhecimento cada vez mais amplo como profundo da vida e obra do artista português. Fazendo o ponto exacto desta realidade é conveniente salientar que António Pessoa por razões mais que obvias reserva a Jacob Kotsky um lugar privilegiado dentro do seu circulo de amigos,o que me leva facilmente a deduzir que o trabalho biográfico de Kotsky tem vindo a ser cada vez mais um acto de pesquisa sumamente agradável e fácil de desenvolver.O próprio espirito aberto do artista revela-se como um livro aberto,facto que felizmente em vez de condicionar uma tarefa substancialmente dificil,faz com que todo este processo de recompilação biográfica se realize com uma fluidez particularmente estimulante o que tem decididamente não só proporcionado a Jacob Kotsky uma fonte de informação disponivel a todo o momento como feito com que todos estes interessantes documentos sobre a sua vida e obra tenham chegado a um público erudito com a devida pontualidade,consistência e seriedade. Hoje,agora e com o arranque do imprescindivel projecto Worldwide,em que António Pessoa insiste e persiste na indiscutivel questão de que a lingua de Camões seja desta vez se não uma predominante pelo menos tão presente como o castelhano ou inglês em tudo o que se diz e prediz sobre a sua obra e até sobre muitos aspectos da sua vida pessoal,Jacob Kotsky,surge mais do que nunca como o epicentro de toda a credibilidade que só o estudo e o conhecimento profundo sobre determinada matéria pode efectivamente fornecer. Por conseguinte tudo o que de bom ou menos bom possa acontecer no futuro na vida e carreira artistica de António Pessoa,forçosamente será sobretudo um eco da verdadeira natureza e personalidade do artista,onde obviamente a sua vida e obra do passado mais ausente ou mais recente, é fundamentalmente o ponto de apoio pelo qual teremos de nos orientar de forma a definir uma avaliação e análise correctas,justamente tanto por uma retrospectiva necessariamente biográfica como utilizando a mesma fonte de maneira a que todos possam entender os códigos plásticos e os actos sociais da vida e obra do artista a curto,médio e longo prazo. Esperando e fazendo votos de que Worldwide- António Pessoa seja um bonito e fascinante projecto para muitos e longos anos,tudo parece estar estipulado para que este jogo de Arte e Comunicação não seja violado por estigmas como a pressa ou a ansiedade,mas sim pelo contrário que seja um omnipresente emblema de espiritualidade,paz,tranquilidade,invenção, diálogo e discernimento global. Neste sentido e neste objectivo penso que todos estamos de acordo e intrinsecamente unânimes em explicitar uma mensagem nova e positiva, oportunamente uma alternativa mais a um mundo que nem sempre nos mostra uma perspectiva nem luminosa nem especialmente brilhante. E como não só com cores e formas se faz Arte e Comunicação,o preto no branco aqui estará para o que der e vier,na certeza porém de que uma informação de qualidade é muito provavelmente o melhor que se pode oferecer a um público interessado e culto que sabe,reconhece e admite que Arte é uma expressão muito mais profunda e complexa do que possa visualmente apenas aparentar. A satisfação da tarefa e da responsabilidade de fazermos chegar a arte proporcional à própria vida é a melhor forma de partilhar um projecto que desconhece fronteiras,cores de pele,opções religiosas,politicas,status sociais e apetências pessoais.É justamente neste contexto de união sem olhar a diferenças,mas sim fazendo das diferenças o contraponto e o bonito do diálogo e união,que Worldwide-António Pessoa se inspira e respira,sem esquemas nem camuflagens,unicamente existindo pela simples felicidade de existir,contudo consciente da autenticidade e até da importância de um estilo de Arte e Comunicação que bem ao Mundo só pode trazer! www . antoniopessoa . final António Pessoa,uma personalidade estranha e imprevisivel,tanto na obra como na vida pessoal,engana o público,os colaboradores e até os amigos intimos,sem querer e sem se aperceber de que a organização que ele próprio ajudou a criar,depende a todo o momento e a cada instante do seu bioritmo,da sua persistente vontade e como não há bela sem senão, igualmente da sua frequente oscilação de humor e até do sentido da sua própria vida. Não pretendendo eu abusar do cliché de que os artistas são todos gente dificil,convém desde já salientar que António Pessoa decididamente não é nem penso que algum dia venha a ser, a excepção que foge à regra. Se lhe atribuimos e com determinante razão as muitas qualidades que tem e que sistematicamente prova que tem,é de nossa e neste caso de minha justiça pelo menos de vez em quando tentar que o artista seja oportunamente mencionado para dar a mão à palmatória. Começo a suspeitar de que o conceito e toda a alma de Home Studio é acima de tudo o grande pretexto que António Pessoa subconscientemente concebeu para fugir às responsabilidades,e de uma forma muito razoavelmente particular aqui neste caso especifico,tendo em conta o leque de colaboradores e profissionais que dependem do estado de espirito do menino e de algumas atitudes absolutamente caprichosas que realmente sustentam a teoria de que ninguém é perfeito e muito menos António Pessoa,que eu abraço e admiro,porém não posso deixar que algumas verdades venham à superficie e até faço questão de que isso aconteça. Todos sabemos de que há dias e dias como também se diz que um dia não é dia,porém quando os dias se seguem como dias em que pensamos que é hora de avançar,António Pessoa recolhe-se no seu Paraiso extra-terrestre e não dando luz verde para adiar também não demonstra grande urgência em dar luz verde para que o projecto Worldwide comece a dar sinais de movimento,já para não falar de Feedback. Uma equação humana feita à medida do Renascimento?Penso que não seja para tanto.Contudo uma equação metafisica às vezes bastante complicada de desvendar,talento misturado com preguiça,uma capacidade laboral coexistindo com uma indole sedentária de fazer roer as unhas e bradar aos céus. O capitulo mais ou menos compreensivel de toda esta equação de boas razões e muitas contradições,deve-se ao facto de António Pessoa desde já hà uns anos a esta data,ter vindo claramente a manifestar o tédio que lhe provocam as grandes urbes como também os lentos protocolos das galerias de arte.É natural e até perdoável que o artista ciclicamente opte por uma letargia semi-tropical,levantando-se a meio da tarde para um lanche que afinal é o pequeno almoço,um pouco de trabalho,enfim,um esboço...que mesmo desenho "à la minute" temos forçosamente de admitir que o talento está patente mesmo num bocejante sarrabisco de efémera inspiração do momento,um banho de sol de dez minutos e uma noite de espontânea satisfação dos desejos... Worldwide-Antonio Pessoa pode esperar,ao artista pelos vistos que grande diferença lhe faz,a raposa velha parece já não alimentar ilusões inspiradas em fama e popularidade.Conhece-lhe os truques e os contra golpes,a pressão,a má lingua,a tensão e o pior de tudo a incómoda responsabilidade de ter de deslocar-se,o ruido,a confusão e as longas esperas e momentos mortos. O lado pouco atraente e muito pouco social de um artista instalado no seu próprio conceito de estilo de vida.Mas António Pessoa,apesar de tudo grande respeitador da liberdade de expressão,sabe perfeitamente que todos os seus actos são prematuramente avaliados pelos seus amigos e colaboradores,muitissimo mais que a sua obra que parece agradar a todos...as suas oscilações emocionais deixam muito a desejar e sobretudo quando existe um dificil e ambicioso projecto para levar a cabo, um projecto afinal de contas de sua inteira responsabilidade. Ponto e virgula, www. antoniopessoa.final felizmente não acontece todos os dias,ainda que estas ciclicas bonanças de temperatura emocional muito frequentemente arrastam-se durante semanas,quando tudo parece entrar num estado de doce e suave apatia geral como a suave brisa de Ibiza ou Barcelona outonal. Agora digo eu quase que em jeito de troça,quem sabe quando venha a Lua Cheia,Worldwide- Antonio Pessoa retome a sua energia inicial. Uma coisa é mais que certa,António Pessoa não é menino para fugir com o rabo à seringa e esta teoria está mais que comprovada.Há dias e dias e ponto final.Worldwide-Antonio Pessoa é um motor turbo que não tem a opção de fazer marcha atrás.Resignadamente há que admitir que há dias em que com o artista temos que ser pacientes,já que a sua força vital consagrou-se com tal credibilidade a tal ponto em que todos estamos seguros e conscientes de que tudo se resume a um imprevisivel e artistico fluxo emocional. Não pintando tão intensa e freneticamente como nos anos noventa,não com aquele sentido militante de cortar a respiração,como nos relata Vicente Fernández,Jacob Kotsky e David Santos,e que deu origem a uma monumental colecção de óleos sobre tela,acrilicos,aguarelas,técnicas mistas e desenhos,hoje conecida como a Época Romântica...António Pessoa no entanto, hoje compensa esta drástica diferença numérica de produção,com um outro "savoir-faire" técnico e puramente conceptual, o selo e a marca da New Era,a possibilidade ainda não esgotada depois da exaustiva epopeia plástica dos anos noventa. Por conseguinte é justamente mais que natural que o seu ritmo emocional tenha sofrido relevantes alterações e logicamente o seu comportamento privado e social também por igual.O Ponto Final é por assim dizer um registro meramente passageiro já que parece que todos sabemos de antemão que este artista português,vivendo em Espanha ou onde quer que esteja em algum devido momento;e que prova e comprova sistemática e quotidianamente um inovador e avançado conceito visual de pura literatura plástica,na qual acaba por tornar-se objectivamente palpável uma visão erudita do mundo em que vivemos, independentemente do quase malicioso toque de pueril infantilidade que mais do que comover,atenua aquela que às vezes acaba por ser uma realidade demasiado dura para assimilar. Ponto Final ! Edward Eglowsky . Genesis Gallery Ainda Worldwide começa a dar os seus primeiros passos primaveris,já o artista António Pessoa começa a dar sinais desse vigor e vitalidade que sempre lhe provoca o bom tempo e a suave temperatura de Abril. Vestido com aquela nova tranquilidade do homem de hoje,parece que faz lembrar o ditado "devagar se vai ao longe".Ditado agora exemplificado e personalizado na serenidade predominante de um artista nas suas sete quintas,nem sempre com a faca e o queijo na mão,porém invariavelmente perspicaz nas suas análises de terreno e por conseguinte nas suas decisões. Seja como for,Worldwide António Pessoa,começa com uma breve visita a Viena de Austria,uma dessas viajens de reconhecimento muito habituais no artista;e com um assunto em "stand by" de há uns meses a esta data,referente a Genesis Gallery,em Stamford,Connecticut,Estados Unidos. Edward Eglowsky,director da galeria faz já umas largas semanas que mostrou particular interesse pela Obra de António Pessoa. Parece-me desde já oportuno e relevante mencionar o facto de que Genesis Gallery representa nomes como Georges Braque,Cezanne,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,Salvador Dali,Marc Chagall e claro,Pablo Picasso. Sem sombra de dúvida nem reticências,justamente a agradável e sábia companhia dos Grandes Mestres ou Monstros Sagrados do século XX, a António Pessoa não lhe faria nada mal,não fosse o caso inesperado de que para o jovem artista português esta questão de religiosamente idolatrar os mitos das artes do recente outro milénio,não assume grande importância nem significado mais do que a justa admiração que possa sentir por cada um deles. Logo e por conseguinte a coisa tem ficado em águas de bacalhau,se por desleixo de Edward Eglowsky ou se por esquecimento do artista,o certo é que nem Pablo Picasso,Dali,Toulouse- Lautrec,Cezanne e Braque ainda tiveram o prazer do mais um para parecermos muitos,enfim,que é como quem diz,vamos lá a vêr. Sobejamente popular o espirito comodista de António Pessoa,tem-lhe criado vantagens e também desvantagens,por um lado mantendo-o no seu home Studio recolhido no trabalho,no estudo e na boa companhia dos poucos mas bons amigos durante longas temporadas,por outro lado desperdiçando provavelmente excelentes contactos tanto no campo profissional como puramente social. Uma vez mais o assunto Eglowsky,Genesis Gallery,ficou pendente,como que perdido no tempo e no espaço.António Pessoa como sempre comovedoramente com pouca paciência para os negócios,vai adiando decisões que só ele pode tomar,apesar de gozar do privilégio de ter colaboradores à altura de,por assim dizer,administrarem uma eficaz e responsável gestão da sua carreira. Porém, a verdade é que contrariamente à realidade de uns quatro ou cinco anos atrás,hoje em dia todos os que com ele colaboram directa ou indirectamente estão obrigatoriamente mentalizados de que nada deve ser feito ou decidido sem a última palavra com a assinatura legítima do artista. Ainda que genuino grande admirador de Chagall,Lautrec,Braque e Picasso...Salvador Dali parece importar-lhe cada vez menos,segundo palavras do artista.Em todo o caso pensamos que seria bom que o primaveril António Pessoa despertasse desta semi- letargia de inspiração "ganha fama e deita-te na cama" e voltasse a ter aquele brilho de brio e ambição nos olhos e aquele incurável sentimento de insatisfação de hà uns anos atrás que independentemente de lhe darem um certo ar de graça e jovial dinamismo,acabava por contagiar quem quer que estivesse na sua companhia. A realidade hoje é um António Pessoa cada vez mais saturado das grandes metropolis,entediantes reuniões de negócios e de check ins e check outs de hoteis para não falar dos ruidosos aeroportos que o artista cada vez mais parece irremediavelmente abominar. Se Edward Eglowsky corresponder aquele tipo de pessoa flexível e predisposto a ceder aqui e acolá,então não será de todo improvável que Georges Braque,Pablo Picasso,Toulouse- Lautrec,Cezanne e Dali tenham a seu lado o seu mais fiel discipulo,mas verdade seja dita,também o mais dificil de todos eles. António Pessoa! Antonio Pessoa Art Gallery De todos os modos e curiosamente,esta peculiar reserva em relação às galerias de arte,tem sido desde muito cedo no percurso artistico e profissional de António Pessoa,não de maneira nenhuma um contencioso ou coisa que o valha,mas sim uma opção,ou melhor dizendo, uma reacção natural e espontânea,por um lado devido à típica lentidão e falta de dinamismo de muitissimas galerias de arte,contudo entendemos que o que mais tem contribuido para este facto deve- se essencialmente à verdadeira natureza do artista encaminhando-o desde a sua adolescência para um modelo,digamos,talvez mais autónomo de gerir a sua carreira e consequentemente a sua vida privada e pessoal. Segundo os inúmeros apontamentos biográficos de Mr.Jacob Kotsky na elaboração do livro About Antonio Pessoa,é sabido que remontando aos seus tempos de Amsterdão,ainda com apenas dezasete anos de idade,o jovem artista já demonstrava os primeiros sintomas da sua intuitiva apetência por trabalhar com intermediários,desta forma,digo eu,talvez sendo afinal de contas uma certa vantagem na medida em que este modus operandi seguramente lhe permitia usufruir de mais espaço anímico vital e tempo real para assim ir paulatinamente desenvolvendo a técnica e o aprumo da sua já promissora coerência criativa. Primeiro,Gerard Meerman toma nas suas mãos a gestão comercial das primeiras obras de António Pessoa na Holanda,estamos a falar do inicio dos anos oitenta.Mais tarde Peter van Dijk interessa-se pela divulgação e venda dos trabalhos do artista português,neste caso não tanto por uma questão meramente económica mas essencialmente por motivos de cumplicidade legitima como se veio a revelar.O mesmo já não se pode dizer do americano Lee Roberts que escassos anos mais tarde viu na obra de Pessoa uma boa oportunidade de realizar dinheiro facilmente. Seja como for,o interessante desta análise é efectivamente concluirmos que desde uma tenra idade,António Pessoa parece ter encontrado neste modelo de trabalho de equipa a velocidade de acção justamente adequada ao seu ritmo de produção e temperamento. Este quase desinteresse e até indiferença por trabalhar com galerias de arte veio dez anos mais tarde a tomar proporções bastante mais acentuadas quando em finais dos anos oitenta e principio dos noventa, António Pessoa pelas mãos de Ana Ferreira Mendes começa a expôr em hoteis e casinos até à altura em que conhece Alfredo Moreira,aquele que viria a ser seu Marchante durante quase toda a última década do outro milénio. Mais tarde,já residindo em Vigo,com Vicente Fernández Lago dá-se o mesmo fenómeno de Déjà Vu,tornando-se até aos dias de hoje o administrador da obra de António Pessoa em Portugal e norte de Espanha. Apesar do facto de tanto Alfredo Moreira,então director da galeria Almacem na cidade do Porto como Vicente Fernández Lago,director e proprietário da galeria Trastevere em Vigo,possuirem estes espaços, efectivamente galerias de arte,a forma como sempre trabalharam com António Pessoa obedecia a um quase modelo de exclusividade,chegando Vicente Fernández mesmo ao ponto de ter Pessoa representado como Artista Único. Com a posta em prática e em cena do Ciclo Zodiaco,já no novo milénio, atingindo o seu nivel máximo em Barcelona 2004 com mais de um milhar de clientes,António Pessoa conquista de uma forma absoluta a sua autonomia e total independência,naturalmente acentuando de um modo mais radical a sua falta de motivação directa em ajustar a sua carreira às agendas frenéticas e superlotadas das galerias de arte espalhadas pelos cinco continentes. Resumindo não restam contrapartidas de que o contraponto da situação tem o seu epicentro em meados dos noventa,quando,efectivamente e sem a necessidade de complicadas equações matemáticas,António Pessoa recebe de braços abertos as oportunidades que a Divina Providência lhe entregou assim de bandeja e que o artista soube aproveitar obviamente com a capacidade laboral a que nos tem invariavelmente habituados e o talento inegável que,verdade seja dita,em vez de lhe ter subido à cabeça, transformou-se em produção,estudo contínuo e uma especie de humildade que só os grandes homens sabem vestir sem que corram o risco de parecer mediocres arrogantes disfarçados de falsa modéstia. António Pessoa,por assim dizer,em meados dos anos noventa sente-se nas suas sete quintas nesta situação de autonomia,na qual pode-se dar ao luxo de dedicar-se de corpo e alma às artes plásticas sem qualquer tipo de interrupções e contratempos dignos de que sejam suficientemente relevantes ao ponto de termos que os mencionar. Naturalmente que o preço que teve que pagar foi um especial atraso na consagração de uma certa popularidade e reputação mundial,facto este no entanto atenuado por uma situação financeira ,diga-se de passagem,muito pouco comum num jovem músico e excelente pianista recém-chegado ao mundo das artes. Nesta situação de autonomia em que tanto Alfredo Moreira do Porto como Vicente Fernández Lago de Vigo tiveram o papel de mecenas, marchante,relações públicas e administradores da obra,António Pessoa não deixa o destino ao sabor da vontade dos Deuses e inventa ou adapta à sua própria maneira um método criativo- laboral,que ele mesmo entitula Acção Directa Total. É pois em plenos anos noventa que o jovem artista usufruindo do consistente e subsistente apoio de dois mecenas que nele sabiamente apostam,nesta tranquila atmosfera de plena autonomia e num mega-estudio que fica na História como Atlantis;que António Pessoa entra, de pincel na mão e a tela no cavalete,na mais produtiva odisseia desde os mestres do Renascimento,Pablo Picasso e mesmo Dali. Esta epopeia de versões e invenções plásticas,segundo o método Acção Directa Total,acaba por ser internacionalmente conhecida como "The Romantic Period" , A Época Romântica,1997- 2002. António Pessoa,reconhece,sabe e admite que nenhum de todos estes privilégios teriam sido possiveis se tivesse optado por um tipo de mercado,digamos,mais ortodoxo,mais caprichoso,mais lento,pseudo- intelectual e muito possivelmente o derradeiro golpe de misericórdia na sua alucinante evolução através do universo Ibérico da arte contemporânea. Arte - António Pessoa - Arte . um Satélite-Espião Made in Portugal . Quando surgiu,que é como quem diz,quando surgiu a ideia e a decisão de efectivamente andar para a frente com o projecto Worldwide - Antonio Pessoa,uma das primeiras intervenções do artista e comunicador foi nada mais nada menos que bater o pé e fazer indiscutivel questão de que o público português tivesse a oportunidade de acompanhar esta que promete ser a odisseia das odisseias a nivel internacional,no idioma de Camões,ou se preferirem de Fernando Pessoa...ou ainda Saramago. António Pessoa a dado momento toma consciência de que a maior parte dos seus amigos e criticos de arte são de Madrid,Barcelona,Europa Centro e Estados Unidos.Apenas eu e Nancy Igartiburu Anderson faziamos o núcleo de expressão portuguêsa.Nancy,estes últimos anos vivendo freneticamente entre Paris e São Paulo e com graves problemas familiares,não podia comprometer-se uma vez mais com António Pessoa,pelo menos dentro de um contexto de colaboração que exigiria desde logo à partida uma dedicação quotidiana e suficientemente intensa. Mea culpa,mea culpa,porém confesso que cheguei ao ponto de tentar dissuadir António Pessoa com o simples e simplório argumento de que um país de dimensões reduzidas e escassa população como Portugal, não iria fazer grande diferença num projecto absolutamente internacional. Ainda não tinha terminado a minha tese e já António fazia uma das suas revoluções de causa,razão,lógica,patriotismo e obrigação.Em menos de uma semana calculo que tenha feito mais de cinquenta chamadas de longa duração,sem contar as infinitas trocas de e-mails e um bloco de notas onde ia organizando o assunto em questão o melhor que podia e sabia. Graças a Deus, Rafael Medina de Sousa foi a nossa salvação,um milagre justo à medida de uma situação que não tinha outro remédio que uma solução.Por seu intermédio pudemos aceder ao espirito voluntário dos mais jovens e talentosos,que para além de gostarem do trabalho do artista gozam do talento e facilidade de expressão literária com fluidez e poder de retórica mais que suficientes para um certo tipo de jornalismo de qualidade e os conhecimentos de arte imprescindíveis a uma análise profunda,legitima e genuina. Por conseguinte,com Anabela Tavares,Rafael Medina de Sousa,Gabriela Hoffman e eu próprio,acabamos por solucionar a questão e nesse fim-de- semana chuvoso e húmido de Fevereiro,2007,encontramo-nos todos no aeroporto internacional de Faro para dois intensos mas divertidos dias de conversações com alguma borga à mistura. António Pessoa tinha ficado no seu Home Studio em Santa Eulalia,Ibiza, mas sempre acompanhando o desenrolar da novela à minha custa ,pois era eu quem fazia as chamadas com o caríssimo prefixo 0034. Assim nascia Arte,António Pessoa,Arte,um projecto que até agora tem funcionado dentro de uma agradável atmosfera de companheirismo e carolice,e algum interesse decorativo que é para mais não dizer,contando com a generosidade do artista sem descurar o seu bem conhecido genuino sentido de gratidão. António Pessoa,não nutrindo nenhum especial interesse por internet a não ser para sessões de consulta referentes a outros colegas artistas, Museus e galerias de arte da primeira divisão,desde o Verão de 2006 que se queixa sistematicamente da escassa informação sobre o seu trabalho no idioma de Camões. Assim seja feita a sua vontade,que a mim pessoalmente parece-me uma excelente tomada de posição. Não são raras as vezes em que António Pessoa sentado à mesa do restaurante frente a frente com Vicente Fernández Lago,de falinhas mansas mas sem gaguejar,lhe aponta o dedo e queixa-se da pouca divulgação que tem feito da sua obra no seu país natal.Vicente Fernández disfarçando-se de bom perdedor,arruma a questão com um "lo siento muchísimo" para em seguida lembrar ao artista que em contrapartida a sua reputação no país das castanholas foi muito mais além das expectativas e tudo isso graças a ele...a Don Vicente Fernández Lago. Estas pequenas ambivalências que segundo consta já existem e persistem desde o século passado,desta vez o artista vê-se obrigado a tomar a iniciativa asegurando-se na medida do possivel e dos recursos humanos disponiveis,de que os portuguêses amigos das artes plásticas e muito particularmente do seu trabalho possam de facto e em tempo real seguir com o minimo de diferenças de fusos horários,tudo o que de bom e menos bom se vai passando com o empolgante enredo de Worldwide - Antonio Pessoa. Worldwide-Antonio Pessoa,mais uma das ambiciosas ideias de Jacob Kotsky,o gentleman de origen polaca que desde os anos noventa que tem como prioridade quotidiana o estudo de toda a vida de António Pessoa,obra,passada,presente e futura,naturalmente nutre um interesse especial em que o projecto Worldwide tenha todos os ingredientes de uma fascinante aventura intercontinental,uma especie de trágico-comédia inevitável e comparativamente proporcional à vida e obra do artista. Ainda que António Pessoa,hoje em dia tenha acalmado e de alguma forma adquirido uma sóbria maturidade e um Know How mais próprio de um cavalheiro do que do aventureiro irrequieto de um passado não muito distante,diga-se de passagem;Jacob Kotsky talvez seja o último a deixar-se enganar,já que quanto a mim,tenho uma credível impressão de que intrinsecamente conhece melhor o artista do que a sua própria mãe,o que me leva facilmente a deduzir que toda esta bonança e calmaria na vida de António Pessoa muito provavelmente aos olhos e sentidos apuradissimos de Mr.Kotsky é justamente aquela estranha sensação de silêncio e imobilidade estática que normalmente antecede as tempestades. A vêr vamos.Seja como for,aqui ficam os votos em meu nome e em nome de toda a equipa,de que Arte,António Pessoa,Arte venha a ser um notável satélite espião Made in Portugal,não só para fazer uma cobertura informativa e analitica de Worldwide mas também que com o passar das semanas e meses possa de facto adquirir uma alma própria e autonomia suficiente para tornar-se num ponto de referência importante para muitos portuguêses e brasileiros interessados em boa arte contemporânea e muito particularmente na obra,aventuras e desventuras da Nova Era de um artista chamado António Pessoa. Atlantis,Vigo - A Época Romântica António Pessoa consegue um mega espaço não muito longe de Vila Nova de Cerveira,rodeado de bosques e dos bons ares da natureza com uma espectacular vista e bons vizinhos,rústicos mas de boa fé. As suas visitas a Cerveira ao principio assiduas tornam-se cada vez menos frequentes.De algum modo a ideia que tinha da terra de facto aos seus olhos acabou por não corresponder às expectativas. Alguns meses mais tarde António Pessoa descobre aquele que vai ser o estudio Atlantis,justamente em frente à praia do Samil,Vigo.Este vai ser durante cinco maravilhosos anos o seu atelier,casa e paraíso celestial. Vigo oferece-lhe aquilo que o Porto nunca teve, a capacidade de conceder-lhe"La Fiesta de la Vída",alegria,noites escaldantes,"La Movída" espanhola e amigos para toda a vida.Neste ambiente,acaba por reencontrar-se e e neste ambiente se inspira para concretizar efectivamente a sua mais intensa e frenética epopeia plástica. A Época Romântica! Ainda que a principio dilacerado pelo estado obsoleto em que a arte galega se tinha deixado adormecer,António Pessoa de alguma forma sabe superar esta realidade concebendo novas e mais contemporâneas versões imprimindo-lhes o exotismo necessário e a sexualidade ainda que sabiamente camuflada,adicionando os seus próprios ingredientes e especiarias através de uma culinária plástica estranhamente híbrida e ao mesmo tempo concentrada num modelo de linguagem e expressão artistica globalmente uniforme. Parece-me oportuno mencionar que António Pessoa,sempre fazendo justiça à sua reputação e cada vez mais igual a si mesmo,mesmo dando-se o indiscutivel caso de não ser de seu estilo fazer qualquer tipo de cedências,é e sempre tem sido sintoma da sua natureza como artista e comunicador,ir ao encontro do público utilizando uma linguagem plástica compreensivel. António Pessoa,um pouco em jeito de graça,conta que certa vez o Prof.Eduardo Calvet de Magalhães,fundador da escola e galeria Árvore do Porto,lhe disse directamente"você ,António Pessoa,é um pintor maldito, sabe o que as pessoas gostam e dá-lhes!" Há de facto uma mais que certa verdade nesta afirmação,seja com retoque ou com mais ou menos subtileza,o certo é que o artista sempre aplaudido por muitos e criticado por poucos,toma desde o inicio da sua carreira esta posição tipicamente Hollywoodesca,não tanto por calculismo adquirido mas sim de facto por natural genética tendência levando-o a absorver e logo e por conseguinte a espelhar as sugestões culturais,sociais e ambientais que mais lhe estão próximas. De bom presságio,esta caracteristica da sua natureza,vistas bem as coisas,de facto tem-lhe trazido mais beneficios que desvantagens. António Pessoa,qual Camaleão,ainda que sempre patente o selo do seu estilo de pose,jeito e pincelada,muda de temática como quem muda de camisa,esgotando todas as possibilidades e mais importante não permitindo que o tédio de maneira nenhuma invada o espectador,como um longo desfile de obviedades de nos fazer dormir e bocejar por mais. E é com estas e com outras que a partir de 1996,um artista luso entra em Espanha e sem muito hesitar,começa a deitar cartas na mesa. Conhece o galerista Carlos Alvarez,quem se apaixona imediatamente pela sua pintura,Alpide Villa Rodriguez,um dos maiores coleccionadores de arte em toda a Galiza,Faustino Moiños ,um jovem mecenas à maneira e por então dono do charmoso pub-galeria Pianíssimo...onde António Pessoa para além de expôr e bem vender as suas obras,encantava a noite viguesa com a sua soltura e sentimento musical no piano de cauda que hoje tem a sua assinatura... ...e finalmente,aquele que viria a ser o administrador da obra de António Pessoa em Portugal e norte de Espanha,Vicente Fernández Lago. Em 1998 Fernández Lago patrocina um dos mais importantes,controversos,originais e eruditos catálogos do artista português. The Black and White album ou El album Blanco y Negro.Uma primorosa selecção de cerca de 300 desenhos,grafite e carvão sobre papel,nos quais o artista decididamente revela ao público as suas capacidades técnicas e de pura expressão visual,plus um calibre de qualidade só testemunhado nos esboços de um Leonardo DaVinci,Salvador Dali,Pablo Picasso,Matisse e Rembrant.The Black and White album despertando na altura um considerável interesse,acaba por obter ao longo dos últimos anos o aplauso entendido da nova geração de criticos de arte,nomeadamente Marc Gilot,Anneke Frenken,Carol Damisch,Arturo Bermejo,Isabel Lostal,Ariana Martínez,Ulrike van Brug,Arthur Zimmerman,Carmen Olaya,etc... Escusado será mencionar Jacob Kotsky,já que para além de amigo pessoal do artista,é sem sombra de dúvida o maior entendido em tudo o que diz respeito a toda uma ampla dimensão envolvendo o personagem,vida e Obra de António Pessoa. Inocentemente,em 1998, o artista português acabava de provar que na sua Obra não há truques nem camuflagens tecnológicas,não por sistema e dedididamente jamais por necessidade ou falta de técnica e talento. Com o album Blanco y Negro,António Pessoa em terras de Espanha colhe um eco muito mais além das suas próprias expectativas,afirmando-se como "Maestro",como um dos últimos dinossauros do prestigioso conceito da velha e tradicional Escola das Belas Artes! No entanto e apesar de que as criticas ao The Black and White album não pudessem ter sido mais favoráveis,em termos de vendas reais não foi grande coisa.Os coleccionadores continuavam a preferir os óleos sobre tela,seja por snobismo,por tabu ou por puro investimento. E uma vez mais,neste campo de,digamos,matéria prima,António Pessoa estava no seu elemento,domínio e território. Aproveitando as lendas e mitos celtico- galaicos,declara uma feroz guerra às telas em branco plasmando contos e histórias onde "meigas", corcundas,gaiteiros,duendes,arlequins,frades e monjas,fantasmas, anjos e arcanjos coexistem num todo alegórico e cinemático.Ao emaranhar assim o verossimilhante e o fantástico,António Pessoa vence,conquista,convence e encanta,pintando e dizendo que as fantasias estão irremediavelmente entranhadas no mundo factual e é absolutamente inútil e contraproducente separá-los! Agora sim,em óleo sobre tela,António Pessoa já não necessita de mais argumentos e Galiza recebe- o de braços abertos ,em vendas,status social,prestigio e devoção. António Pessoa em 2001 e já casado com Irene Luz Iglesias Dona,já é cidadão espanhol,artista português e património galego! ARTE - António Pessoa - ARTE ! Arte,Antonio Pessoa - Arte é um conceito absolutamente português, visando uma nova aposta do artista em território nacional,com uma linguagem e expressão adequadas às nossas gentes,sem pretender entrar em pretenciosismos de pseudo-erudição,mas pelo contrário fazer chegar a arte e o artista preferivelmente a uma vasta camada da população.Estamos aqui com essa atitude apoiada pelo próprio artista, o qual precisamente acredita que é tempo de mudar um pouco as coisas ( para melhor!),no sentido de partilhar uma forma de literatura visual tão bela como as Belas Artes e quase tão bela como o belo país que é Portugal. Comentava recentemente Pierre Fontanals num artigo sobre António Pessoa para o Xornal Galicia,o estigma de Portugal viver ainda numa atmosfera terceiro mundista,referindo-se ao facto de só abraçar os seus valores ou a titulo póstumo ou quando depois de triunfarem no estrangeiro e chegados a uma idade avançada receberem por fim (que remédio) o reconhecimento atrasado do país que os viu nascer. Pensem o que quiserem,especialmente aqueles que pouco se aventuram no país vizinho,seja em trabalho ou lazer,mas o certo é que estas piadinhas subtis aos espanhois "les encanta!". Pierre Fontanals,aliás um bom rapaz e grande amigo nosso,pense ele o que quiser.Verdade seja dita aqui estamos nós para pelo menos tentar virar tudo ao contrário.António Pessoa é nosso,pertence-nos e tudo o que estiver ao nosso alcance,não pouparemos esforços em estabelecer uma relação desde hà dez longos anos em Stand By. Por estas e por outras, Arte - António Pessoa - Arte, tem como objectivo primordial aproximar o artista de Portugal e vice-versa. Se para Vicente Fernández Lago, administrador da Obra do artista na Galiza e Portugal,tanto se lhe dá como se lhe deu esta situação de "nem de mãos dadas nem de costas viradas",para Luis Santiago o caso muda de figura,já que independentemente do facto de ser amigo intimo e colaborador de António Pessoa,vive em Barcelona hà mais de trinta anos e é com especial orgulho que testemunhou e testemunha a crescente reputação e cotação internacional do artista,concluindo sem o minimo vestigio de mania das grandezas que António Pessoa é um dos grandes embaixadores de Portugal no mundo da arte contemporânea. António Pessoa,para o qual esta triste "irrealidade!!" parece,enfim, coisa de pouca monta,de certeza não perdendo sequer uma hora de sono por esta causa sem causa,contenta-se e até se poderia dizer que se dá por satisfeito com a atenção global que o seu trabalho vai despertando, dando-lhe até,a bem dizer,um certo prazer em poder gozar de um quase total anonimato sempre que visita Portugal. Para Don Vicente Fernández Lago,as razões que vão alimentando esta balsâmica indiferença são mais que lógicas,pois , verdade seja dita e publicada,realiza-se bem mais comercialmente com a Obra do artista português em Espanha do que no Reino de Sócrates! CarvalhoPintodeSousaLand! Arte - António Pessoa - Arte, é um projecto de tranquila comunicação,no idioma de Camões,apenas um projecto,não uma revolução.Os portuguêses decididamente que o merecem,justamente agora em que tão na moda está essa coisa dos Grandes Portuguêses.E falando no Diabo,uma coisa do arco-da-velha,já que Maria João Pires ficou nos últimos dos cem e o António Oliveira...bem mais à frente,e escandalizado ficou o Dr. Mário Soares.E esta,hein?Cá por mim,com certa razão. E a questão fica no ar!Será que os portuguêses sentem desesperadamente a falta de Grandes Portuguêses ou será que os Grandes Portuguêses sentem a falta de Portugal? Arte - António Pessoa - Arte tenta de alguma forma contribuir para a eliminação deste lapso,ainda de todo não crónico ,porém roçando a tragico-comédia.Luis Santiago(Barcelona),Rafael Medina (Lisboa-Madrid), Veronica Amaral (Lisboa),Gabriela Hoffman (Estoril) e eu própria,por agora constituimos o Todo desta transpiração de pura carolice,ainda que muito generosamente António Pessoa nos continue decorando as paredes de nossas casas com o que ele melhor sabe fazer.Pintura! E efectivamente é a pintura de António Pessoa que tencionamos divulgar ao público português um tanto ou quanto adormecido com papas de sarrabulho e "Morangos com Açucar"!!!A ideia de Luis Santiago deu-nos um entusiasmo que sem sabermos nos faltava. Merecemos finalmente uma referência cultural com pés e cabeça e decididamente pernas para andar. Arte - António Pessoa - Arte,acaba por reunir cinco pensamentos num só discernimento.Uma equipa consciente de que algo de muito importante no seio da arte contemporânea se está a passar.Um algo muito artistico, genial e muito português,o inventor de si mesmo e agora que já não restam dúvidas, o inventor da Nova Era ! Amsterdam,Nederland Enquanto os lobos uivam e os cães que ladram...não mordem,Mr.Jacob Kotsky,amigo pessoal de Vicente Fernández Lago e amigo intimo e estreito colaborador de António Pessoa desde finais dos anos 90,a partir de 2003... começa a interessar-se pela feitura da biografia do ainda jovem artista. Em 2003 escreve um sem número de artigos sobre a vida e Obra do pintor,traduzidos do inglês ao castelhano por Luis Santiago e editados na publicação do catálogo La Época Romántica de António Pessoa. No entanto só em 2006 Jacob Kotsky começa realmente a escrever a um ritmo acelerado,os capitulos mais interessantes e relevantes da vida e Obra do artista. Ainda que About Antonio Pessoa,um livro que promete e compromete, por agora não passe de uma infinidade de apontamentos dispersos e anacronicamente fragmentado,tudo indica que venha a ser muito brevemente uma realidade enciclopédica,biográfica,mordaz e sobretudo profundamente analítica. Através desta biografia o leitor viaja no tempo até aos dias em que António Pessoa vive entre Londres e Amsterdam,ganhando a vida como pianista e já estabelecendo seriamente uma forte relação com as artes plásticas. O adolescente António Pessoa entra no mundo da pintura com a naturalidade desconcertante daqueles a quem o talento não lhes falta. Num caso muito particular,Amsterdam é uma cidade em plena ebulição social,cultural e cosmopolita,o palco perfeito para um jovem curioso e irrequieto.Enquanto Portugal,mergulhado num conturbado periodo pós- revolução e pós-guerra colonial teria sido o golpe de misericórdia para um espirito sensivel e já habituado ao avanço social do norte da Europa,para António Pessoa, Holanda é um quarto de brinquedos,que é como quem diz,um epicentro de actividades diversas como música,teatro,arte...e sexo!,que o artista aproveita e assimila ,desenvolvendo a sua intuição emocional e criativa e projectando-a sem pedir licença em todas as actividades em que participa,música,teatro e finalmente a pintura. António Pessoa vive seis anos em Amsterdam (ou Amsterdão!),seis intensos e aventureiros anos trespassados aqui e acolá por algumas timidas e curtas visitas ao seu pais de origen,ainda muito a preto e branco para o apetite cromático do jovem talento. Contudo estes loucos e felizes tempos em terras flamengas,são ciclicamente interrompidos pelas inúmeras visitas que faz a Paris,Londres,Berlim e Copenhaga (Copenhagen!).António Pessoa de "blue jeans" e "moon beams",também visita Veneza,Grécia e por duas vezes Marrocos.Umas vezes só,outras vezes com amigos e por último com a sua companheira holandesa,Yvonne Smit. Também é com Yvonne Smit que António Pessoa passa os seus últimos tempos na Holanda,vivendo sete meses em Groningen e regressando a Amsterdam para uma derradeira despedida. Estamos em meados dos anos 80, quando o artista com vinte e poucos anos de idade regressa ao Porto em jeito de visita de médico,para logo viajar para o Algarve e sul de Espanha,onde durante alguns anos interrompe dràsticamente a sua actividade pictórica,vivendo única e exclusivamente da música,tocando o piano em hoteis e pubs desde Albufeira até Málaga,desde Torremolinos até Ibiza. É esta ilha balear que António Pessoa visita pela primeira vez com apenas quinze anos de idade,que muito anos depois vai ser o seu cantinho paradisiaco e o seu Home Studio semi- tropical. Em 1998 o artista luso viaja de automóvel até à sua querida cidade holandesa para um reencontro depois de tantos anos. No entanto só a partir do momento em que se instala em Barcelona, António Pessoa desloca-se a Amsterdam com frequência entrando em contacto com velhos amigos e fazendo novas amizades,desta vez quase todas elas de uma forma ou de outra directamente envolvidas no mundo das artes plásticas. Em última análise se Porto é a sua cidade Natal,para António Pessoa, Amsterdam,Nederland,ficou,é e sempre será decididamente uma das suas cidades favoritas! O Ciclo Zodiaco Se muitos pensam, e a verdade é que pensam,que grande parte de êxito de António Pessoa foi tudo uma questão de sorte,estão redondamente enganados.Talvez,digamos,que muito possivelmente o artista tenha nascido com o "coiso" virado para a lua,mas o mais certo e justo é efectivamente concluir que Pessoa...António parece ter sempre sabido fazer-se rodear e acompanhar de colaboradores não só multifacetados mas essencialmente inventivos. E um grande exemplo desta teoria foi a posta en prática do Ciclo Zodiaco em 2003,já o artista vivendo e trabalhando em Barcelona. Tanto Luis Santiago como Pierre Fontanals mostraram-se à altura da situação tanto mais que a operação foi concluida com extrema eficácia, organização e actuação em termos de tempo real,aquilo que no corrente anglicismo se conhece por "Timing". O Ciclo Zodiaco,inventado por Gala e Salvador Dali em Paris em plenos anos 30,baseava-se na idea de que cada colecionador de arte se comprometia a adquirir um quadro do artista catalão uma vez por ano. Isto somado por algumas dezenas de colecionadores permitiu a Gala e Dali usufruir de uma metódica situação financeira que por assim dizer lhes permitia um nivel de vida adequado às extravagâncias do casal sem deixar obviamente de mencionar o facto que esta tranquilidade económica fez com que o então jovem surrealista pudesse de facto dedicar-se de corpo e alma ao trabalho sem a necessidade de fazer qualquer tipo de cedências. Dito e feito.Pierre Fontanals conhecedor deste modus operandi, aproveitando eu desde já a oportunidade de referir e salientar o facto de que seus pais eram amigos intimos de Salvador Dali,convence António Pessoa a fazer o mesmo,ou pelo menos a editar uma nova versão da ideia.O sitio e o momento eram mais que propicios,isto é,Barcelona 2003, precisamente numa altura em que a Obra do artista luso começa a chegar e a suscitar interesse não só na Europa como também no outro lado do Atlântico,nomeadamente Chicago e Indianopolis. Por conseguinte,mãos à obra e a arregaçar as mangas.Pierre Fontanals,António Pessoa e Luis Santiago,com a imprescindivel participação de Vicente Fernández Lago,começam a recompilar todos os clientes da Obra do artista até à data.Em 2003,segundo fontes fidedignas o resultado final ascendia a mais de um milhar de regulares. O projecto e o programa do Ciclo Zodiaco foi enviado imediatamente via postal ou e- mail,obtendo num curto espaço de tempo uma adesão satisfatoriamente surpreendente. Deste modo António Pessoa libertava-se de compromissos pouco aliciantes com galerias de arte,passando a vender directamente aos colecionadores e a organizar exposições da sua Obra por sua própria conta e risco. A sua situação financeira triplicava de un dia para o outro,um fundo de maneio que o artista e os seus colaboradores através de um excelente trabalho de equipa não perderam tempo em investir,viagens Europa e Estados Unidos,longas estadias em luxuosos hoteis,web designers, e dinner-parties onde era convidada a elite de Barcelona,potenciais novos colecionadores,jovens criticos de arte de toda a zona Euro e como não podia deixar de ser directores de galerias de arte,os quais mesmo não usufruindo do privilegio de se encontrarem no top 10 dos VIP,dadas as novas circunstâncias,também não eram nada para se deitar fora. António Pessoa,mais do que nunca antes,envolve- se num sistema de trabalho,divulgação e comercialização da Obra,totalmente independente do lento e entediante esquema das galerias de arte. Muito mais que proveito financeiro,estimulo laboral e satisfação pessoal,o Ciclo Zodiaco traz à vida de António Pessoa uma refrescante dose de adrenalina,inspiração,tranquilidade e decididamente,motivação. Hoje em dia e graças ao Ciclo Zodiaco,o artista luso conta com um número,a bem dizer,inconfessável de clientes regulares da sua Obra,que em última análise lhe permite dar-se ao luxo de efectivamente poder escolher as opções e situações que mais lhe agradam e certamente as mais adequadas ao seu temperamento,Obra e ambições . TODOS ESTES 10 ANOS ! Mais uma vez,depois de dois anos,Hotel Albergaria Don Manuel abre as suas portas ao público galego e do norte de Portugal para outra retrospectiva da Obra de António Pessoa. Ao que parece segundo fontes fidedignas muitas outras exposições do artista luso estão previstas aqui mesmo no jardim à beira-mar plantado. Justamente a Obra que por estas terras galaico- portuguêsas foi aqui executada pela inspiração e mãos do artista,parece que por cá fica ,pelo menos na sua esmagadora maioria.No periodo de Vigo,1997-2002 , mais de 3.000 óleos sobre tela nasceram para a eternidade no estudio de António Pessoa,para não falar das centenas de aguarelas,técnicas mistas e acrílicos sobre papel.Conveniente também é não esquecer que o controverso album Black and White foi concebido e editado no espaço destes super-produtivos anos. Após uma época de relevante trabalho do autor nos primeiros anos da década de 90,estimulada e comercializada por Alfredo Moreira enquanto António Pessoa viveu no Porto ; Vigo,Galiza,Espanha recebe de braços abertos um artista português até à data desconhecido em terras do Finisterre.Vigo será,durante cinco divertidos anos de intensa fertilidade artística,a cidade onde Antonio Pessoa vive e trabalha e se apaixona pela terra e pelas suas gentes,inclusive acabando por contrair matrimónio com uma espanhola. António Pessoa acaba por tornar-se no artista luso mais conhecido em terras galegas de todos os tempos.Hoje em dia nem mesmo Vieira da Silva parece gozar de tanta popularidade. Numa terra de boa gente,mas onde os portuguêses até hà pouco tempo eram olhados de soslaio,António Pessoa consegue a proeza das proezas tornando-se decididamente num excelente embaixador de Portugal. Porém,o artista desde muito jovem habituado aos pros e contras de se ser estrangeiro (...e português!) em vários paises europeus,nomeadamente em Amsterdam e Londres onde viveu durante seis anos...em terras galegas não se deixa ficar pela simples visita,mas sim acaba por ser aceite como património cultural da velha Galiza. Lorenzo Quinn,filho do mesmíssimo Anthony Quinn,em finais dos anos 90 na noite da inauguração de uma exposição de esculturas de sua autoria,nada mais nada menos que no prestigioso Club Financiero de Vigo conhece António Pessoa e incute-lhe,por assim dizer,um bichinho chamado Barcelona. O artista luso ainda solteiro e depois já casado faz diversas viajens à cidade Condal,BCN,Sitges e Castell Defels,acabando por instalar-se em Barcelona em meados de 2002. Aqui começa uma nova etapa da sua vida e muito particularmente a sua expansão na Europa e Estados Unidos.Vicente Fernández Lago,Luis Santiago,Nancy Igartiburu,Jacob Kotsky e Pierre Fontanals (entre outros) acompanham-no nesta dificil mas fascinante aventura. Brigitte Lucas e Agnès Teixidó colaboram com o projecto de António Pessoa em Barcelona e David Leonardis em Chicago.2004 é um ano decisivo na carreira do artista na medida em que por uma serie de merecidas e devidas circunstâncias é catapultado para uma nova escala de valor e reconhecimento ibérico e internacional. Talvez para desanuviar do reboliço da grande metropolis, António Pessoa em 2005 consegue uma autêntica pechincha e compra uma casa-estudio em Santa Eulalia,Ibiza,aquilo a que o artista não tardaria em chamar Home Studio.Home Studio- António Pessoa tem-se tornado quase numa lenda,como se de uma marca se tratasse,mas essencialmente o retiro paradisiaco de um homem que adora o mar,sol e natureza. Tirando partido da situação,Pierre Fontanals,Luis Santiago e o erudito Mr.Jacob Kotsky aproveitam a ideia do Home Studio para criarem um espelho mediático da verdadeira alma do artista. A partir de 2005 Antonio Pessoa regressa a Portugal e Galiza com certa assiduidade,no entanto sempre de maleta na mão e mais o seu habitual ar de resignação de um homem que no fundo o que mais lhe apraz e o faz realmente feliz é sem tirar nem pôr o velho critério de amigos amigos, negócios aparte,profissão muito bem,mas paz e sossêgo. Enquanto Vicente Fernández Lago e os seus colaboradores locais preparam uma serie de exposições em Portugal e Galiza,2007,Antonio Pessoa faz os últimos preparativos para mais uma vez enfrentar o seu grande amor e a sua grande dôr de cabeça.Nova Iorque! Home Studio em Ibiza fica à espera do regresso do dono da casa,sem dúvida uma promessa de mais uma longa temporada de invenção,trabalho e Obra no seguimento da sua nova linha pós- contemporânea,The New Era. E ainda teimam alguns em dizer que já está tudo inventado? António Pessoa,Coração de Leão António Pessoa,sempre fiel às suas convicções,sempre fiel aos seus enraizados principios de base,não se fazendo de rogar,porque nunca foi aliás o seu estilo nem sequer pretender ser o que não é,fazer o que não lhe compete nem amaldiçoar os anjos porque o mundo está como está, ...mais do que nunca igual a si próprio e mesmo na dúvida da saudável meta-filosófica-física...seguro de si e de olhos postos no futuro,os pés bem na terra e a Arte no momento presente... recusa ou ignora propostas ou situações alheias à sua indomável vontade...não certamente por cinismo ou arrogancia,mas sim sobretudo porque ao que tudo indica nada tem a perder,o que pode muito bem significar pura e simplesmente não ter medo de perder...o que nos leva a concluir que na pior das hipóteses ...só pode ganhar! No fundo e no todo,António Pessoa actua como sempre tem actuado.Imagina um quadro e pinta-o à sua maneira. "I did it my way" de Sinatra se não fôsse o infeliz anacronismo poder-se-ia pensar que este tema foi escrito a pensar em Pessoa,António Pessoa. "My way" no entanto ainda pode vir a ser o hino de um artista português ,porque nasceu em Portugal...acima de tudo um europeu,já que Europa é o seu palco favorito,desde o romantismo de Amsterdam,a cidade que o viu crescer até ao brilho semi-tropical de Barcelona,cidade onde reside e trabalha .Desde Paris,cidade por onde passou mil e uma vezes e mil e uma histórias até Ibiza,a ilha dos seus amores e aventuras de fins de Primavera. Porém a questão importante neste momento,é decididamente o seu teimoso pacto com a situação perfeita.António Pessoa rejeita situações mediocres talvez com receio a ter uma indigestão...mas em última análise,o mais certo a bem dizer,é que o artista luso é o prototipo do homem que sabe sempre o que quer. Aquilo que o torna numa Pessoa dificil ,justiça seja feita à sua reputação,não será certamente um humor de bradar aos céus,mas sim um Coração de Leão que não se deixa domar nem com chicote e muito menos com palavras meigas. Simplesmente António Pessoa inventou um estilo de vida,numa selva de betão,feroz e perversamente ambígua.Por assim dizer,não querendo abdicar da sua invenção,o artista muito frequentemente diz Não! Ouvir o artista dizer que Sim,muito possivelmente é porque alguém...ou uma situação...abriu-lhe o apetite,abrindo as portas do seu Coração de Leão! A história como sempre continua,na arte,na vida,no mundo,como uma saga infinita,como só um anjo na selva poderia conceber! António Pessoa - Contemporary Plus O artista luso António Pessoa,a partir de 2006 que sem dúvida parece abdicar das suas velhas influências e interferências,rompendo bruscamente com os tradicionais modelos,mitos e os últimos vestigios da sua tão polémica,boémia e academica Época Romântica,1997-2002. Barcelona,foi desde 2002 o principio do seu Stand By necessário,o seu periodo de reflexão,consagração no país vizinho,um progresso mais que evidente a nivel de maturidade pessoal e um acumular de experiências, tudo isto inevitàvelmente culminando numa transformação absolutamente metamorfósica e justamente,como não podia deixar de ser,absolutamente drástica no domínio das artes plásticas. A Nova Era - The NEW ERA, António Pessoa - é precisamente a prova inegável de uma nova tomada de consciência plástica,de intuição cromática e de expressionismo conceptual inovador. Longe estão os tempos de Atlantis,Vigo e Porto,discotecas,pubs,noites de boémia e aventuras mas acima de tudo longe estão os tempos em que António Pessoa ainda vibrava e brindava com os velhos mestres do século vinte,nomeadamente Francis Bacon,Vieira da Silva,Matisse,Picasso , Dalí,Kandinsky...para não mencionar as desventuradas influências da retrogada pintura galega. António Pessoa,despe os trajes das velhas e obsoletas vanguardas e renasce frescamente exorcisado como se de um novo personagem se tratasse. Amaldiçoado por uns e admirado por muitos,o certo é que o artista português promete um futuro artistico,humano,profissional como aliás era de esperar. Mais que contemporâneo,António Pessoa dá claramente a entender que as suas ambições plásticas vão muito mais além do "Fashion",na verdade o artista decide sem avisar dar um grande salto em matéria de invenção plástica passando do Neo para o Plus. Eu,pessoalmente ainda que não surpreendido,pois outra coisa do homem não se podia esperar,devo no entanto reconhecer- na mesma e precisa medida em que muitos jovens criticos de arte já isto têem como dado adquirido e facto consumado - que António Pessoa mais do que Veni,Vidi,Vici... ultrapassou-se a si mesmo com a coragem a que já nos tem habituados e como um dos grandes portuguêses de sempre! Alfredo Moreira - Porto . Algarve Os Anos Dourados Para todos os efeitos,pensem e digam o que disserem,a grande verdade é que foi em Portugal e muito particularmente na cidade do Porto que o jovem artista António Pessoa marca o golo da tranquilidade e do dia para a noite passa a regime de pintor profissional.Dito e feito,tiro e queda. O artista conhece Alfredo Moreira um art dealer atípico,já que de um verdadeiro gentleman se trata.Durante oito produtivos anos estabelecem uma relação de cumplicidade,amizade e profissional,estimulando e desenvolvendo uma situação de profuso dinamismo ,quer no âmbito da produtividade artistica,quer no campo de estratégia comercial propriamente dita.Alfredo Moreira sabe criar,desenvolver e manter uma agenda de clientes por todo o país,enquanto António Pessoa,desde muito cedo começando a fazer justiça à sua reputação de excelente profissional... entrega-se ao oficio das artes plásticas com unhas e dentes,a um ritmo de fabricação, dizem os entendidos,só comparável a Pablo Picasso. E do dia para a noite,o jovem pintor torna-se num campeão de vendas o que leva Alfredo Moreira a não hesitar,passando a comprar pontualmente toda a sua produção. António Pessoa,independentemente do facto de aos vinte e muitos anos gozar do privilégio de uma situação financeira mais que invejável,progride a passos largos tanto no dominio técnico como nas possibilidades temáticas,de pura expressão plástica,pensamento e inspiração. Estes são os Anos Dourados em que o artista pela primeira vez na vida tem a certeza de que só há um caminho.Arte! Os seus tempos de nómada caprichoso e Dolce Vita mediterrânica iam ficando nas brumas da memória,para darem lugar a um novo periodo, uma nova maturidade e um estilo de vida radicalmente diferente. António Pessoa é agora um homem financeiramente privilegiado e artisticamente estimulado e realizado.Contudo,não por uma questão de humildade gratuita mas sim ,melhor dizendo,por pura consciência filosófica;não se deixa ofuscar pelo brilho do sucesso nem se deixa ensurdeceder pelo som estridente dos clarins da vitória. E a prova disto é sobejamente conhecida,já que ao longo dos anos que se seguem,nem a fama nem a glória,vão exercer qualquer efeito na sua personalidade e muito menos no seu comportamento,social e profissional. António Pessoa nestes primeiros anos da década de noventa compra um novo apartamento em Vila Nova de Gaia,deduz-se que como simples investimento,já que de seguida muda-se para o Algarve. Durante cerca de dois anos,vive,namora,trabalha e deleita-se no seu espaço favorito de Portugal.Aqui,em Armação de Pêra ,produz as suas primeiras telas panorâmicas de grande dimensão e de temática essencialmente histórica,exaltando o passado glorioso de Portugal,bem como alguns dramas que a todos nos dizem respeito. Desta época pode-se fazer especial alusão e referência à Conquista de Lisboa,Aljubarrota e 1755. Alfredo Moreira não se deixando surpreender,já que por então menos do artista sabe que não pode esperar,não deixa contudo de sentir uma crescente admiração por António Pessoa,pela sua prolífera imaginação e muito particularmente pela sua quase sobrehumana capacidade laboral. Os ares e a vida do Algarve,como sempre aliás,são de um modo geral, benéficos para o artista,contribuindo enormemente para um perfeito estado anímico como também para uma excelente condição fisica. A sua relação com Armanda Lamy,algarvia de gema e tradição,dá-lhe o equilibrio necessário para que se sinta no seu absoluto elemento. Viajam à noite por todo o Algarve e ao fim de semana são frequentes umas escapadelas a Sevilla,Vila Nova de mil Fontes,Évora e até Lisboa. No entanto,apesar do panorama idilico e ideal e como não há Bela sem senão,a relação entre os dois começa a deteriorar-se à medida que Armanda Lamy parece dar sinais de pretender muitissimo mais do que a Arte de Bem Namoriscar em Toda a Sela! António Pessoa,já pai de dois filhos e divorciado,não se sente à altura de semelhante compromisso.Ele e Armanda Lamy já levam um ano juntos e para o artista,tal como tudo o que é bom acaba,parece-lhe que a situação chegou a um grau de tensão insustentável. Começam as suas viajens cada vez mais frequentes ao Porto até ao dia em que decide ficar. Infeliz com a forma como tudo terminou,o artista entrega-se freneticamente ao trabalho,criando nesse ano em que de regresso volta a viver na cidade Invicta,um impressionante desfile de óleos sobre tela,acrilicos e aguarelas.Porém o Porto irremediavelmente entristece-o, provoca-lhe essa indomável e inexplicável sensação de nostalgia e penumbra emocional. De passagem por Vila Nova de Cerveira com o seu filho que aí estudava,resolve dar uma vista de olhos mais além do rio Minho.Galiza. Vigo!!! E aqui,em meados dos anos noventa,mais precisamente em 1996,dá-se o inicio da sua mundialmente conhecida Época Romântica e igualmente o inicio propriamente dito da sua brilhante carreira no país vizinho. Contudo,de minha justiça digo eu,não convém nem podemos esquecer de que foi no Porto,Portugal,onde António Pessoa,pelas mãos de Alfredo Moreira,obteve a sua primeira grande oportunidade,a qual,e a César o que é de César,o artista soube aproveitar com o brio,entusiasmo, honestidade e capacidade de trabalho que são,por assim dizer,as caracteristicas da sua marca! Antonio Pessoa - Hammersmith,London,U.K. A bem dizer,António Pessoa inicia a sua carreira artística em Londres e Amsterdam.Se sim,que é verdade,que foi em Amsterdam que arrancou definitivamente rumo ao universo das artes plásticas,cidade onde reside durante mais de seis anos...foi em Londres que António Pessoa testemunhou o primeiro contacto entre a sua obra e o público. Numa casa de três andares na famosa Askew Road,Hammersmith,a poucas estações de Leicester Square,António Pessoa vive da música e nas horas livres dedica-se à pintura.Os seus primeiros trabalhos são basicamente academicos,inspirados nos mestres das primeiras vanguardas do impressionismo como Renoir,Vincent van Gogh,Monet e mesmo Turner. Infelizmente (ou felizmente)...todos os apontamentos plásticos executados em Londres ficaram nas brumas da memória,para sempre perdidos no esquecimento do grande público,ao contrário das obras pintadas ao longo dos seis anos que vive em Amsterdam,onde ainda hoje é possivel encontrarmos em galerias de arte ou colecções privadas,trabalhos de António Pessoa dos primeiros anos da década de oitenta. Jacob Kotsky,amigo pessoal e apaixonado estudioso da vida e obra de António Pessoa,nos seus já inúmeros registros biográficos sobre o artista,faz frequentes referências a esta época extraordinária .Amsterdam foi decisivamente a cidade que lhe proporcionou a inspiração,o momento,que por assim dizer lhe despertou os sentidos poetico- visuais rumo a uma aproximação mais extensa e intensa ao mundo fascinante das artes plásticas. Contudo parece-me absolutamente oportuno e adequado estabelecer como referência exacta que é efectivamente em Londres que António Pessoa pinta e expõe os seus primeiros retratos impressionistas. No entanto,só doze anos mais tarde,já de regresso a Portugal,é que António Pessoa realmente se transforma no fenómeno hoje sobejamente conhecido, ainda que para isso outros tantos tivessem que passar ,anos de experiência, trabalho e dedicação,até aos dias de hoje em que a sua reputação depois do impacto no país vizinho,dá visíveis sinais de bem navegar tanto na Europa como nos Estados Unidos. Hammersmith,Londres,fica no entanto para sempre como um marco importante na vida de um artista português,talvez o sol nascente de uma vida que até agora tem demonstrado ser,mais que uma corajosa aventura,uma epopeia sublime através do universo da arte contemporânea. António Pessoa - Self-Bio Em finais de Setembro 2006,António Pessoa dá inicio a uma nova colecção da já popular e bem badalada série New Era.Uma nova Época desde hà já algum tempo levantando alguma polémica-ainda que ligeira- ,New Era de António Pessoa vai tomando proporções e dimensões consideravelmente serias e que sem dúvida ,pura e simplesmente promete. Self-Bio,justamente a mais recente colecção de António Pessoa,apesar de ainda a dar os primeiros passos suscita um interesse especial e particular dado que se inspira efectivamente nas memórias do artista,de conteúdo justamente autobiográfico. Após quase três anos de interregno,o coleccionador e critico de arte Jacob Kotsky,mais uma vez retoma e segue pontualmente o desenvolvimento da nova Época de António Pessoa,tanto um como o outro em mutua sintonia e muito especificamente sintonizados com o projecto em comum. E enfim,as boas noticias são que não restam dúvidas de que New Era de António Pessoa nasceu para viver uma longa vida,pois já hà muito que efectivamente deixou de ser um sinal de mudança para ser uma flagrante da vida real,da Arte real de um artista que muito mais que contemporâneo é já um simbolo relevante do neo-futurismo das artes plásticas. Depois de Yellow collection,Art on white,Remix e Black on white,agora Self-Bio , independentemente do seu conteúdo temático de pura inspiração autobiográfica,equaciona inovadoras e interessantes combinações de forma e cor,um nivel técnico visivelmente superior e um dominio de impacto visual imediato - como não podia deixar de ser - absolutamente presente e melhorado.Vamos a isso! António Pessoa - Club Financiero de Vígo , 2006 - Dez Obras vendidas A inauguração da exposição de pintura de António Pessoa no Club Financiero de Vigo,parece ter ultrapassado todas as expectativas. Dez obras vendidas na noite da inauguração não deixam margem para dúvidas quanto à reputação do artista português no norte de Espanha. Nem os discursos solenes de Don Carlos Alvarez (Director da Galeria do Club Financiero de Vigo) e de Don Vicente Fernandez Lago(Administrador da Obra de António Pessoa em Espanha e Portugal) fizeram acalmar os animos da Jet-Set galega e outros que tantos do norte de Portugal. Nada ! Muitos artistas colegas do pintor davam voltas e reviravoltas pela Galeria e por todos os cantos do monumental edifício na esperança de encontrar o artista.Nada ! António Pessoa,verdade seja dita e revelada,nesse preciso momento encontrava-se em Las Palmas,Gran Canaria,em casa do seu amigo Jacob Kotsky. Aí tem pintado estas últimas semanas,preparando a sua nova colecção : "The New Era ". Mais uma exposição de António Pessoa A minha aterrissagem no aeroporto de Santiago de Compostela mais a incongruente viagem de camioneta (com ar condicionado!) até Vigo,não me abrandaram o fluxo sanguíneo,pelo contrário,parecem ter sobreactivado a minha adrenalina. Regressar a Vigo e rever muitos dos meus melhores amigos é sempre um prazer indescritível.Talvez até mais que,enfim,contemplar mais uma exposição de António Pessoa,pois que vou comparecendo a quase todas ao ponto de se ter já tornado rotina. Mas onde é que está o artista ? Mas aí estavam,as obras do Mestre,bem penduradas e estudadamente seleccionadas segundo um critério de lógica e temática. "Mas onde é que está o artista?Onde é que está António?" Apenas dois pintores não comparecem às suas inaugurações na Galiza.Jaime Quessada (porque é uma lenda ) e António Pessoa (porque,enfim,estava em Las Palmas). Mesmo o próprio Lorenzo Quinn - filho do famoso actor Anthony Quinn - compareceu,faz uns anos,à sua inauguração de esculturas aqui justamente no mesmo Club Financiero de Vigo,vestindo um moderno fato e gravata e fazendo honra sem sacrifício de toda a pompa e circunstância. Um Mito consagrado na Galiza Se António Pessoa é já quase um mito consagrado na Galiza,entre os seus amigos o assunto é bem diferente,já que o artista nem tem sequer idade para ser mito nem lhe parece interessar muito aparentar semelhante estatuto. Por isso todos o queriam vêr,como nos bons velhos tempos em que o artista andava pelas ruas e Pubs de Vigo em juvenil alegria e sobretudo em paz e sossego. Infelizmente,para ele e todos nós,hoje em dia a cidade de Vigo tornou-se para o artista num antro cheio de ameaças conjugais ,para não falar das constantes quezílias entre galeristas que disputam entre si pela sua Obra,onde tudo parece valer,menos mordidelas. Põe-te a pintar e deixa-te de histórias Mas resumindo e concluindo,a inauguração decorreu às mil maravilhas e António Pessoa lá permaneceu nos trópicos longe do reboliço "viguez" e sobretudo são e salvo das garras de uma mulher com uma certa dor de cotovelo e de um razoável número de galeristas e marchantes que o "adoram" - não tanto pelos seus lindos olhos - mas mais pela sua cobiçada Obra. Regresso a Barcelona bastante exausto,contudo plenamente satisfeito por outro grande êxito de um dos meus artistas favoritos e um dos meus melhores amigos. António Pessoa,põe-te a pintar e deixa-te de histórias! Expo . Hotel Le Meridien António Pessoa regressa ao Porto en finais dos anos 80 para se reencontrar com um animado turbilhão de amigos e predestinado a conhecer outros tantos. Comodamente instalado no seu espaçoso T4 ,apetrechado com o excelente piano de marca Pleyel ,uma prenda vitalicia da sua avó paterna, encontra igualmente neste apartamento os metros quadrados mais que imprescindiveis para retomar a actividade plástica. Em contraste com La Vída Loca do sul de Espanha,a cidade do Porto parece-lhe envolta num manto de nostálgica melancolia.A sua adaptação a este ambiente ao principio parece-lhe rigorosamente impossivel,contudo os amigos de colégio e os novos com quem vai estabelecer relação, acabam por fazer peso na sua decisão de ficar por algum tempo. Mãos ao trabalho e em escassos meses o atelier da cidade Invicta já dá sinais de intensa actividade e mais importante sinais efectivamente palpáveis de prolífera produção artística.António Pessoa imediatamente despacha os seus piores trabalhos vendendo-os aos prestigiosos leiloeiros de Mouzinho da Silveira e a um marchante de Fonte da Moura que avidamente compra tudo o que o artista lhe disponibiliza. No entanto as suas obras primas vão sendo meticulosamente seleccionadas e armazenadas para eventos de,digamos,mais prestigio. António Pessoa conhece por fim Ana Ferreira Mendes,então sub-directora de informação da RTP Porto,com quem passa a viver em regime semi- matrimonial.Ana Mendes interessa-se não só pelo artista como pela sua arte.Prepara-lhe uma serie de exposições,nomeadamente no casino de Espinho,galeria das caves Sandman,casino da Póvoa e finalmente a apoteose desse programa tendo lugar no Hotel Le Meridien. Para grande surpresa do artista,aliciante surpresa,imagino,metade das obras expostas foram vendidas na noite da inauguração.Ana Ferreira Mendes,devido à sua posição no seio da RTP Porto,tinha feito questão de preparar uma razoável cobertura mediática,convidando os seus mais proeminentes amigos da alta esfera portuense;e como amigos dos nossos amigos nossos amigos são,a Vernissage acabou por ser um desfile de alta costura,má lingua,beijinhos e palmadinhas no ombro,um patatipatatá que se prolongou pela noite dentro,mas que sem tirar nem pôr acabou por mostrar ao jovem António Pessoa que nem tudo o que reluz é ouro e que a sua Obra era altamente aplaudida na sua cidade Natal. Mas apesar de tudo e do grande êxito então,ainda não foi dessa que o irreverente artista ganhou o gosto pelas ruidosas vernissages.De facto os próximos anos vão corroborar esta afirmação na medida exacta em que António Pessoa muito raras são as vezes em que efectivamente comparece às inaugurações,quer porque se encontre num outro lugar e num outro fuso horário,quer simplesmente porque tanto quanto se sabe, sustenta a opinião de que a Obra fala por si e a presença obrigatória e protocolar de quem a deu à luz é justamente uma situação supérflua e até de inspiração exibicionista,logo perdoável. Esta exposição não tendo sido necessariamente o despoletar de um entusiasmo latente,terá sido segundo a lei das probabilidades um binóculo de alta precisão,mostrando uma perspectiva de futuro artistico profissional,o qual como hoje sabemos de facto acabou por se concretizar. E para,enfim,comprovar a minha tese,verificamos que nos anos que se seguiriam,artista António Pessoa gradualmente vai moldeando a sua forma de viver no formato atípico que lhe é peculiar.A sua carreira desenvolve-se com soltura,sorte,organização mas também inevitàvelmente apoiada por uma razoável habilidade de liderança,porém curiosamente contrastada por um paralela postura de descompromisso, como que salvaguardando uma integridade interior,uma forma de viver e gestionar o espaço e o tempo,como só os soberanos do Renascimento sabiam fazer. Apesar de que a sua conversão a tripeiro de gema nunca se tenha por assim dizer concretizado,António Pessoa efectivamente e para sempre fica a dever à cidade que o viu nascer,o grande arranque profissional,bem como um status financeiro muitissimo acima do que se poderia esperar para um jovem artista récem-chegado ao mercado e ao mundo da Arte. E resumindo e concluindo,a exposição no Hotel Le Meridien fica como um marco histórico na vida e Obra de António Pessoa,talvez a fronteira entre o irresponsável,delicioso mundo de aventuras e o pensamento plástico erudito,desenvolvimento técnico,relação artista - temática,levado ao expoente máximo da Arte por excelência!

Antonio Pessoa ' ART TIMES

2007-10-27T09:43:00.001-07:00