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, very long 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 first 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.