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 help me 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.
