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 favourable
to his peculiar and very personal tastes.
