A self-made man, a self-made
artist, sometimes disguised as simply a life lover undercover,
an original gracious wonderful human being since his
early teens simply enjoying to let feelings and emotions
out in the open through fine art expression. So much
has been said at random of the mystery behind the artist
profile and very particularly about his adventurous
life roleplaying, indeed a breathtaking episodes roller
coaster live show... However, in spite of all this systematic
amusing speculation, Antonio Pessoa's true and basic
motivation therein lies the first key leading to the
ultimate conclusion, that his personal success is after
all his pure relation with art expression, not necessarily
a religious ritual, but actually very simply the natural
spontaneous happiness he always feels mixing colors
and concepts, and in so doing coming up with specific
visual results, invariably the meaningful reflexion
of the heart and soul of a boy who once discovered during
his early teens the great emotional symphony he could
indeed experience throughout his all day long private
art making sessions. Throughout the years up to now,
Antonio Pessoa has been showing us basically all possibilities
concerning the worldwide visual arts universe, from
Modern Art to contemporary cutting edge. However, most
important of all, he has been showing us the ultimate
paradigmatic attitude of a truthful artist, systematically
and inconditionally honest and completely faithful to
his deepest beliefs, and in so doing very often, strange
and crazy as it seems, putting his professional art
carrer on Standby, regardless of consequences, by making
solid sure that attending to the present mindfulness
personal life self-commitments would always be his priority
number one! "I Did It My Way" could eventually
become one day the title of a book or even a motion
picture about Life and Work of the artist, easily. Jazz
musicien, adventurer or art maker, Pessoa has been leading
a life inner-voice oriented, being unbreakable self-confidence
and dynamic determination the main strong and powerful
characteristics of his unique and creative personality.
Fact! From a public global perspective, one could freely
assume that his life could have been better or could
have been worse. Speculative time- wasting, if you ask
me. The art maker's life has been and it is what his
heart told him and tells him to do, how to do it and
at last but not the least, who to do it with! Antonio
Pessoa, the Art Maker, specifically since the early
nineties gets down to absolute art action, with such
a striking energy to such an extent that by the end
of 2002 he had actually accomplished an impressive encyclopedic
art collection of over seven thousand artworks, namely
oils on canvas, mixed medias, collages, acrylics on
paper, watercolors and drawings. He soon excelled at
the craft, through this intensive eight days a week
art production twelve years in a row hallucinating odyssey,
exploring all there was to explore and in so doing,
reaching at light-speed a truly remarkable technical
high quality level, expertise and mastery, let alone
his well developed now easy-to-do talented composition
and invention capacity, all this and all that, turning
him into one of the most striking artists of our times.
These words of mine, based upon true facts aim at capturing
the global awareness to identify,gaining clear understanding
and consciousness of Antonio Pessoa indeed as a living
artistic phenomenon in today's worldwide art scene.
One actually has to see it to believe it! Fact. Entering
the artist's studio, take a sit and watching him painting,
is by all means a truly unforgettable experience. It's
always indeed very exciting to attend the Art Maker's
studio and witness his live performance rhythm and style.
Like an expert ballet dancer moving about the titanic
easel, filling in the blank canvas space through successive
moves of brush strokes striking precision, only to be
interrupted by sudden short moments for totally focused
perspective measurement and deep thoughtfully reflective
mental-emotional full-swing evaluation before the composition,
the show definitely goes on and by the way extremely
entertaining indeed. The artist's spectacular performing
style through the act of creating and arranging several
aesthetics advanced essentials, managing with astounding
mastery a mixture of ingredients step by step but rather
quicky resulting to form the unified whole of a finished
contemporary fine art masterpiece, is astonishingly
cinematic, something to actually witness in order to
believe it. Believe me! Absolutely, that's the way to
do it. Among the hundreds of contemporary artists that
I came to get to know personally, unquestionably the
Art Maker, live studio performer, is by all means a
unique super fine art wizard beyond compare. Anytime,
anywhere, anyhow... and, well, anyway... with more or
less worldwide projection Antonio Pessoa is a top reference
for all art lovers from all over the planet, the best
investment for the major art galleries, a solid choice
for the most passionate and distinguished art collectors
and at last but not the least, a great contemporary
positive influence for all emerging artists on their
winding way to be under their personal achievements
glaring spotlight.
