ANTONIO PESSOA - found at last check - Mr. Alonso Morales, came to Amsterdam from Madrid this summer for our business deal. It was easy because he liked me and I liked his prices. For 6.500 euros I had in my hands 15 watercolors by Antonio Pessoa, art work from the 90's, the world wide known Antonio Pessoa's Romantic Period.

I kept ten of them for my private collection and my father bought me the other five pieces for 800 euros. I never actually told me how much they had cost me, but one thing is true, my father was more than glad and therefore he asked me no questions.

Among the Art collectors in Amsterdam, Antonio Pessoa's new collection called the NEW ERA is actually becoming more and more popular...and expensive too.

I've tryed to contact the artist personally and after two weeks struggling to pass through his studio's team people, I succeeded at last just by approaching him at the front door right there in Leisplein, where he lives when he is in Amsterdam.

I told him the trouble and the whole adventure I went through to get some of his work.
Probably he took pity of me that day, because after we had breakfast together he kindly invited me to his huge studio and next thing I knew he was handing me two signed posters of his latest collection. That sure just made my day!

Art-collecting is a striking adventure, if you ask me. Once you get hooked on it there's no way back.
Besides being one of the safest investments of our times, Art-collecting is a wonderful interesting hobby.

If my favourite sculptor is Marjolijn Mandersloot, my favourite painter is Antonio Pessoa, both of them living in Amsterdam. Art-collecting Antonio Pessoa's paintings, mixed medias, drawings and watercolors has become a real dangerous obsession for me for the past two years. I've looked all over Amsterdam but the prices were so high that I finally gave it up and decided to look somewhere else.

I made hundreds of phone calls to Paris, New York City, Vienna, and the prices in there were still beyond my possibilities. I had one option left. Going to Spain.

Antonio Pessoa has his main studio in Barcelona for some years now.Once again I tryed to contact him but he was away to Canary Islands. I checked out some Art dealers in Barcelona and they actually had some Art work by Antonio Pessoa, but yet again the prices were beyond my hand reach.

Back to Amsterdam I spent one month, roughly, in front of the computer mailing all the Art galleries in smaller cities in Spain and Madrid...as the last waterhole, so to speak.

Surprise, surprise, it was worth have given it a try.In cosmopolitan Madrid I found a true gentleman owning more than 200 watercolors by Antonio Pessoa.

I had found the gold mine at last!

Sonia Dekkers . Amsterdam

The NEW ERA 2006 - Antonio Pessoa - Antonio Pessoa's NEW ERA straddles the divine between a romantic attachment to the immediacy of contemporary Art and a fascination with the revelations of technology. Color and motion, being the two elements subjected to re-interpretation. Antonio Pessoa's abstract chronicle the changes that gather around a fixed point throught various manipulations of data and materials.

In the NEW ERA collection Antonio Pessoa meticulously registers the repercussions of waves of shapes and sometimes turns them into micrographs.Such patterns unfold as a result of conceptual algorithms based on the movement of colors and shapes.

Raoul Dumas - Brussels

ANTONIO PESSOA - World Wide - In his new work , Antonio Pessoa evokes an impression of timeless sensations, the perception of light sifting through layers of stunning color. The world Antonio Pessoa creates in each composition seems an enigmatic and faraway transcendental expanse.There is the sense of being absorbed into something larger than the mind can come to terms with. Then a hardedge line, perhaps reference to an architectural form, catches the eye, and one's concentration is pulled back into the moment.

Antonio Pessoa uses color to describe a sense of vaste space, now awesome silence and serenity, then agitated rhythms.

Antonio Pessoa's work has been shown in many group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States.


Raoul Dumas - Brussels

ANTONIO PESSOA - Colors and Shapes - Through his thecnical mastery and his socialite hobnobbery, Antonio Pessoa's latest art works are among the finest of contemporary art. Collectively his work paint a warm picture of colors and shapes. It is a reflection on Antonio Pessoa's work and life that he paints colorful compositions in strikingly different lights. Antonio Pessoa's iconic images drip with sexuality and objectification of the subject.

Though his notions of colors and shapes sometimes lack the objectifying impersonality of the abstraction counterparts, Antonio Pessoa often manages to squeeze his contemporary sensibilities into his compositions.


Raoul Dumas - Brussels