Antonio Pessoa
Journal
Antonio Pessoa Art Maker A self-made man,a self-
made artist,sometimes disguised as simply a life
lover undercover,an original gracious wonderful
human being since his early teens simply enjoying
to let feelings and emotions out in the open
through fine art expression. So much has been
said at random of the mystery behind the artist
profile and very particularly about his
adventurous life roleplaying,indeed a
breathtaking episodes roller coaster live show...
However,in spite of all this systematic amusing
speculation,Antonio Pessoa's true and basic
motivation therein lies the first key leading to
the ultimate conclusion,that his personal success
is after all his pure relation with art
expression,not necessarily a religious ritual,but
actually very simply the natural spontaneous
happiness he always feels mixing colors and
concepts,and in so doing coming up with specific
visual results,invariably the meaningful
reflexion of the heart and soul of a boy who once
discovered during his early teens the great
emotional symphony he could indeed experience
throughout his all day long private art making
sessions. Throughout the years up to now,Antonio
Pessoa has been showing us basically all
possibilities concerning the worldwide visual
arts universe,from Modern Art to contemporary
cutting edge. However,most important of all,he
has been showing us the ultimate paradigmatic
attitude of a truthful artist,systematically and
inconditionally honest and completely faithful to
his deepest beliefs,and in so doing very
often,strange and crazy as it seems,putting his
professional art carrer on Standby,regardless of
consequences,by making solid sure that attending
to the present mindfulness personal life self-
commitments would always be his priority number
one! "I Did It My Way" could eventually become
one day the title of a book or even a motion
picture about Life and Work of the artist,easily.
Jazz musicien,adventurer or art maker,Pessoa has
been leading a life inner-voice oriented,being
unbreakable self-confidence and dynamic
determination the main strong and powerful
characteristics of his unique and creative
personality.Fact! From a public global
perspective,one could freely assume that his life
could have been better or could have been
worse.Speculative time- wasting,if you ask me.
The art maker's life has been and it is what his
heart told him and tells him to do,how to do it
and at last but not the least,who to do it with!
Antonio Pessoa,the Art Maker,specifically since
the early nineties gets down to absolute art
action,with such a striking energy to such an
extent that by the end of 2002 he had actually
accomplished an impressive encyclopedic art
collection of over seven thousand artworks,namely
oils on canvas,mixed medias,collages,acrylics on
paper,watercolors and drawings. He soon excelled
at the craft,through this intensive eight days a
week art production twelve years in a row
hallucinating odyssey,exploring all there was to
explore and in so doing,reaching at light-speed a
truly remarkable technical high quality
level,expertise and mastery,let alone his well
developed now easy-to-do talented composition and
invention capacity,all this and all that,turning
him into one of the most striking artists of our
times. These words of mine,based upon true facts
aim at capturing the global awareness to
identify,gaining clear understanding and
consciousness of Antonio Pessoa indeed as a
living artistic phenomenon in today's worldwide
art scene. One actually has to see it to believe
it! Fact. Entering the artist's studio,take a sit
and watching him painting,is by all means a truly
unforgettable experience. It's always indeed very
exciting to attend the Art Maker's studio and
witness his live performance rhythm and style .
Like an expert ballet dancer moving about the
titanic easel,filling in the blank canvas space
through successive moves of brush strokes
striking precision,only to be interrupted by
sudden short moments for totally focused
perspective measurement and deep thoughtfully
reflective mental-emotional full-swing evaluation
before the composition,the show definitely goes
on and by the way extremely entertaining indeed.
The artist's spectacular performing style through
the act of creating and arranging several
aesthetics advanced essentials,managing with
astounding mastery a mixture of ingredients step
by step but rather quicky resulting to form the
unified whole of a finished contemporary fine art
masterpiece,is astonishingly cinematic,something
to actually witness in order to believe
it.Believe me! Absolutely,that's the way to do
it. Among the hundreds of contemporary artists
that I came to get to know
personally,unquestionably the Art Maker,live
studio performer,is by all means a unique super
fine art wizard beyond compare.
Anytime,anywhere,anyhow...and,well,anyway...with
more or less worldwide projection Antonio Pessoa
is a top reference for all art lovers from all
over the planet,the best investment for the major
art galleries,a solid choice for the most
passionate and distinguished art collectors and
at last but not the least,a great contemporary
positive influence for all emerging artists on
their winding way to be under their personal
achievements glaring spotlight. Antonio Pessoa
Heartbeat Life is not measured by the number of
breaths we take,but by the moments that take our
breath away. The artist's systematic
visualization of a new- innovative contemporary
communication outflow,is unquestionably the
Heartbeat's heart and soul. Previously designing
this worldwide- oriented concept,inspiring an
entirely revolutionary and powerfully positive
attitude towards the on-going art scene,Antonio
Pessoa,once again,shows up as the perfect
reflexion of his reputation,by suggesting with
contagious determination and enthusiasm,a brand-
New Age of art-public intercommunication,aiming
at empowering the mutual relationship precisely
between art,artists,gallery owners,art scene in
general and the gigantic community of art
lovers,art collectors,media,worldwide public.
What else could actually be more exciting and new
than this pro-life,pro-art,pro-future and pro-
global communication striking futuristic
concept,a truly innovative approach for even
greater dynamic flexibility directly concerning
this art-public interactive universal
togetherness? Here we go again,so let's propose a
toast to the Heartbeat's larger-than-life divine
inspiration,heroic epic Project visualising a New
Era of intimate closeness between art and public!
Limitless possibilities,now that everything seems
to come so easily,the artist's secret to living
successfully,feeling and acting by the passionate
rhythm of his heartbeat. The mindset two by two
dance "get-to-it- iveness" and "stick-to-it-
iveness",creates the larger than life action
super positive mood,all he actually needs to move
him towards entrepreneurial artistic freedom,and
in so doing his blazing desire for daily
creativity keeps on accumulating new concepts and
inspiration flow for future awesome oeuvre. A New
Year is upon him,and once again the almost
industrial stimulating studio art production is
in full swing,pestering the artist to slim
down,starting a brand-New Era,a better phenomenon
and inspiring star. Antonio Pessoa didn't just
get lucky but instead was proactive within his
life as opposed to simply reacting to things as
they occur. How does that work? Positive Hearbeat
leads to positive feelings,these feelings lead to
fantastic emotions,this striking super emotional
flux promote amazing inspiration,finally this
magical inspiration creates supreme lifestyle and
artistic outcomes! Antonio Pessoa's amazing
capacity to make art public show up to express
flat-out unbarred flipped out
excitement,throughout the past recent years got
him in a very happy spotlight,identifying him as
an important symbol among contemporary top
artists. His Heartbeat seems to be the key
component of intentionally causing his wild happy
attitude to naturally bring smashing results into
everyone's life. I cannot stress this point
enough! Almost telepathically communicated to the
worldwide art lovers community,expressing through
art awe and wonder,he is increasingly bound to
systematically experience this enthusiastic
public effect on his overall worldwide reputation
level. Heartbeat's overwhelming force,more than
the artist's
intelligence,skills,talents,money,relationships,hi
s fabulous collaborators team,reputation,you
name it...has been and it definitely is,his
internal powerful tool just to get the whole job
done and most importantly what actually takes to
make his Oeuvre absolutely achieve the now on-
going contemporary smashing new line and its
global recognition. Creative visualization has
been Pessoa's main faith and persistence
provider,for all I know.The art studio veteran
surely knows by now that following through
without a plan and thoughtful action,means
nothing but helplessness. Thereby,no wonder
Antonio Pessoa,among the thousands of artists I
know,he stands out prominently because he has
made a success of getting what he wants out of
life. He is successful in art studio
performance,in his career,in his personal life
and in leading a stimulating adventurous life and
exciting projects. This is the secret and many
people know it.He knows that the power to direct
himself wherever he wants to go in art and
life,is provided by his striking Heartbeat
influence,energy and unbreakable
flux,systematically empowering motivation,solid
beliefs and cultivating burning imagination. The
Heartbeat's law of attraction is not a new idea
in the artist's daily rituals.It has always been
there throughout his feverish art action
times...in the continuous process of managing his
professional and personal life commitments with
the sudden decision taking skills and the
miraculous ways he always indeed did manifest
attaining his dreams,one by one,step by step...as
new brilliant ideas and concepts kept on popping
up in his mind and in his intuition. Years of
intensive training has shown Antonio Pessoa that
brainwaves not only provided insight into his
mind and body,but they could manage to stimulate
him to such an extent to actually enhance
artistic performance,bringing about a large
variety of mental states and emotional reactions
for the incredible benefit of great creativeness.
When Pessoa comes up with an artwork such as
Heartbeat,it's once again quite obvious he is
unquestionably climbing up the hill of the super
exploring multiple magical possibilities of mind
power and very specifically emotional
intelligence. And why is he so much involved into
this interesting sort of experiences?
Actually,the answers to this question are quite
simple once we fully come to understand the
artist's current challenges in agenda. The whole
scene concerning his life has become indeed a
complex and rather exciting chess composition in
which checkmate is definitely not an option
whatsoever and the "Knight" is not supposed to
resign even when the situation apparently looks
hopeless and the going gets somewhat tough.
Heartbeat and exact timing! What most of us
aren't quite yet aware of is that Pessoa's public
image has little or nothing to do with the real
picture of the artist's private life ,which is
actually a fascinating constant stream through
the Universe's all possibilities accelerated
learning and sharing wonderfully
mysterious "Wondertopedia"! It seems Pessoa these
days only shows his latest Oeuvre to very few
people.Not anyone is actually allowed to visit
his holy Studio 7,let alone his Studio 1,where
most of the interesting things really happen.
Therefore,Heartbeat,acrylic on watercolor
paper,Antonio Pessoa 2008,might as well be a nice
unexpected surprise or even an entirely unique
revelation for most of his closest friends and
the extra regular curious cats,such as Ian
Dadley,always in his well-disguised effort in
order to show not too much interest,his
traditional attitude to helplessly keep the
artist underpriced. Basically enjoying his highly
productive semi- solitude,the art studio worm
keeps on painting life itself,with the neo
contemporary vision approach which is
unquestionably changing on a weekly basis,if you
ask me...definitely always for better,signing his
artworks with the typical detachment of someone
who doesn't feel the urgency to herald his own
supreme greatness,and giving his paintings the
titles always faithfully based upon his deepest
beliefs.Remarkable accuracy! In the meantime,as
time goes by,the after midnight express is always
available downtown,where nothing really important
seems to be happening,however - in particular
when after a pleasurable Heartbeating creative
working day,when he can't help feeling a bit
stale and in need to liven up his soul and
inspiration a bit and for a while- it turns out
to be the perfect place at the right time with
the wandering crowd...to break with the delicious
routine and get that creative something back on
the track and right on time. Antonio Pessoa's
Heartbeat is essentially a universe of endless
interesting amazing possibilities,where art and
life coexist all together,as a family of dynamic
concepts,intuitively aiming at approaching world
public for an apotheosis celebration of art
expression and universal communication. Heartbeat
represents the soul of Studio 1,The New Era,the
artist's updated outlook of the basic essentials
of what the worldwide role of contemporary art
expression must be,particularly in times of
general doubt and emotional - conceptual
fragmentation,in a world where the urgency to
achieve a global strong focus on a truly solid
catalog of new values,perception,ideals and most
important of all,cultural togetherness at last
check turns out to be a Must top of the list
number one priority ,among the worldwide art
lovers vibrating community. Antonio Pessoa Art
Dealer It's no big surprise,actually it's no
surprise whatsoever that Antonio Pessoa comes up
with this watercolor entitled ART DEALER. It
might sound funny that I put it this way,but fact
is,they had it coming. Ever since his fine art
first steps in Amsterdam up to now,his relation-
chemistry with art dealers has always been an
immense display of funny,even shocking episodes
marked by enough glaringly vivid
sensationalism,to become an excellent movie
script and consequently a very probable worldwide
successful motion picture. Along the past ten
years,throughout our punctual ( off the record )
late evening,sometimes all night long pleasurable
conversations,I've become more and more
familiarized with the artist's rich content
memories,particularly concerning this behavior
pattern of the art merchants he has been
stumbling upon along the way. The harassed petty
annoying process of transforming them into
business partners,in spite of always having
provided him with interesting,handy,global
promotional and specifically financial
facilities,there was always the other side of the
coin,so very often growing up in the form of
politely disguised suspicion,generally ending up
with a mutual resigned attitude based upon "if
you can't beat them,why not join them" sort of
idea,if you get my drift. Antonio Pessoa's
strategy of using the art dealers passion for
fast profitable income,has increased in quality
and know-how expertise,systematically provoking
raised eyebrows and cold shoulders,a situation
sometimes rather difficult to fit well into the
general décor,thereby issuing no guarantee to
both one-of- a-kind parties that the Grand Pipe
of Peace smoking session was about to be the next
step of the almost take it or leave it
negotiations meeting. Thanks to this year-after-
year educational intensive experience and real-
life tutorials,a considerable immunological
tolerance has been remarkably developed as time
went by,gradually providing the artist with a
rather cool shoulder- shrugging indifference
towards ruthless art market soul destroying
tricky ways. No wonder Pessoa's impressive
healthy detachment toward the worldwide art scene
racing struggle,keeps him psychologically safe
and sound,basically neutral to all different
forms of pressure,such as silent treatment,hard
to get playing,pseudo-snobbery high
fevers,curriculum vitae obsessed go-betweens,you
name it... Thereby it's only natural that the
extent of the artist's evasive give me break
attitude has indeed by now reached an effortless
degree of pure automatism in which the "no pain
no gain" old recipe sounds rather like a
senseless,useless outmoded quotation. However,in
spite of all these mysterious slippery shadows of
the past,on the whole,Antonio Pessoa should have
no reasons to be complaining about. As a matter
of fact,let alone his reputable working
capacity,talent,skills,technical level and
prolific gifted imagination,he actually got
pretty lucky along the way by coming across real
gentlemen in the art business who managed his art
career with absolute transparency,vision and
punctuality,furthermore managing to establish a
truly lifetime friendship relation with the
artist. Thanks to these highly ethical and
efficient art mediators and gallery owners,Pessoa
became a premature wealthy artist and next thing
he knew he was climbing fast up the hill,provided
with the proper stimulation,at the right place
and at the right time,feeding him with the
dynamic incentive for super art action,and
consequently moving his technical improvement
process forward with such a force,to indeed such
an extent of burning creativity and passionate
working combustion that a whole lot sooner than
it was to be expected,Antonio Pessoa had become a
true art studio wizard and his brand-name an
unquestionable contemporary visual arts
phenomenon. As confident as can be,from then
on,the painting machine magic had a sponsored one
way ticket to the exciting life of a successful
young professional artist. Overcoming the
inevitable series of up and down momentum
shifts,Pessoa increasing faith and belief in his
oeuvre and project,was obviously sustained by his
public,clients,family,close friends and very
particularly by those exception to the rule
distinguished art mediators. Antonio Pessoa today
recalls all his endless collection of cinematic
episodes with art dealers,with a contagious smile
on his face,definitely not a bitter smile but
actually a smile of cool retrospective
amusement,taking this with the right measure of
healthy detachment,all out in the open,no hard
feelings whatsoever,and absolutely not like
things one would rather have left unsaid. I'm not
going to mention names obviously to ensure my
genuine respect for individuals right to
privacy,neither is Pessoa particularly interested
in stain on whoever's reputation and public
image. However,the general image and prototypical
pattern of the average art dealers,those who have
become the backstage actors of Antonio Pessoa -
Fine Art productions play,after all these years
turned out to become a rather hazy in outline
cartoon-like caricature representing a cross-
between something like a raptorial bird,card
shark,buoyant bluffer,wishy-washy salesman,tricky
wily,small-time streetwise,slimy schemer,tricky
Dik,foxy-sly wiseguy... The eighteen years old
young artist for the first time experiencing back
in the 80's,downtown Amsterdam,Holland,the
standard territory of weekly appoitments with
veteran art dealers,soon finds out that
ironically his strong spot ( super art production
speedy capacity and artistic quality ),turns out
to be his fragile weak spot as well.How come?
Even back then,any art dealer entering Antonio
Pessoa's Damstraat Studio for the very flashy
first time,knew right away he had just found a
gold mine and that the priority number one was to
show no special interest whatsoever. On the other
hand the art dealer also knew that the option of
letting the bird fly away ...or shall we
say,letting the gold slip through his fingers was
totally out of question.Period. Thereby,after a
short while of morbid pondering,the edgy
agressiveness was on aiming at making the artist
feel helplessly puzzled and most important of
all,slippery insecure and anxious across the nail-
biting business meeting. The young artist's huge
art production let alone his naive good-hearted
innocence were the main substantial ingredients
for him to have to go through this short-term
although painfully hard art marketing empirical
apprenticeship. The art dealer's eyes were by
then already glittering with the Overstocked and
Underpriced smiley emotions greedy scintillant
gleam. Nevertheless,the smart young artist sooner
than they expected,learned the tweaks and tricks
of the art business secrets.More than enough
talent was available in order to cover both art
production and art dealers fast efficient taming
operation. Furthermore,there was extra bad news
for all of them small-time artist's soul
corrupters.Antonio Pessoa at the age of eighteen
was already a full-swing professional musicien,if
not a millionaire at least definitely already
making a pretty decent living out of playing solo
or with local dutch bands. This and that plus all
the other gifted resources systematically pushing
the creative sharp young man back on the right
track,turned out to be a flash splash surprise
for the mistaken victory assuming art dealers
suddenly in a wink of an eye all at once
switching from business meetings conductors to
passive resigned restless spectators. Throughout
the years Pessoa indeed meets a diversity of art
dealers each and everyone of them from different
backgrounds,from various cultures,perspectives
and inevitable with different personal attitudes
specifically when it comes to deal with an
artist,obviously aiming at the essential
motivation.Achieve fast profitable right on the
spot financial goals. Always in the process of
improving his ability to previsualize any art
dealer's profile before shooting,the artist's
judgment accuracy and precision became gradually
more and more in tune,like a super efficient
detecting radar on the look out for those red
light warning signals of fraudulent
intentions,abusive behavior and that obnoxiously
disgusting greedy ruthlessness of the mediocre
kind. Once passed the Trial by Fire test,in the
very early nineties,Pessoa has become
unquestionably an experienced soldier in the art
business "battlefield".A true surviver,ready for
the tough going,a real-life academy graduate
ready to step on the art stage."Fait accompli"!
However,before he actually comes to meet
Mr.Doright,he still has to deal with another one
of the nasty kind. Antonio Pessoa in his late
twenties is willing to drop music for good,at
least professionally and get fully commited with
fine art,switching from noisy smoky,crowded wild
night life to more suitable lifestyle in which he
feels a whole lot more well-fit for his
concentration enhancement and decreasing after
midnight distractions therefore get down to an
intensive experimental period through which he is
indeed going to do his very best in order to make
his art performance consolidate into a rather
mature,impactful and enduring style. Once again
in a few months his art production bacomes an awe
eliciting colossal canvases,watercolors and
drawings collection,the result of yet another
prodigious storm of feverish creative art action.
Obviously,after a short period he reaches that
stand by point in which the artist wishes to get
rid of his average quality oeuvre in the process
of making a wise quality art selection.He always
did it and still does it this way.However,not for
any price,and most importantly not giving in by
surrendering to no art dealer's
whimsical,capricious and at the art business time
sensible to no other passion but avarice. Easier
said than done! In spite of the artist's
doctorial how to deal with art dealers master
diploma,this one proved to be a raging lion in
the art business Coliseum. Pessoa actually
bullfights him during almost one year the best
way he knows how. Every business meeting turns
out to be a Sergio Leone like movie,maybe "once
upon a time in hell" or "run,art dealer,run".
These play and rewind heated sessions indeed
might have looked like a truly surrealistic two-
players no card deck required Poker Game,where in
this particular comedy-drama situation the
general rules were "mix a lot of skill with a
lucky charm spell" and maybe...you'll get out
alive well! The artist had long assumed that if
you take art business too seriously besides the
possibility of end up getting an overnight
headache you might as well wake up mid afternoon
with one of those reality twisted smiling
hangovers just to find out you're on your own
with no art stock whatsoever and just a few bucks
in your unpatched-hole pockets. This stressful
period's happy ending was when the artist finally
met Mr.Moreira,with whom he was about to have
definitely the biggest break of the nineties. As
time goes by and his grand piano gradually
becomes an untouched abandoned dusty Steinway at
the south end of his living room,Antonio Pessoa
throws himself into his most striking art
production odyssey up to then. The Golden Period
great adventure had just begun.During these super
creative smashing times the reciprocal link
between the artist and his new art agent-gallery
owner and friend,couldn't possibly have been
better indeed. Not only the gallerist provided
him with a rather impressive substantial
financial punctual assistence,for the artist to
have become almost overnight a wealthy young art
maker,but also Antonio Pessoa knew how to make
the best out of this only once in a lifetime
opportunity,by becoming a fully commited eight
days a week fine art professional,furthermore
improving at light
speed,technically,aesthetically and
conceptually.Indeed an amazing combination of
motivation,positive energy,innovation,intensive
studio action,let alone his ever-present
incandescent imagination. Nevertheless,on the
whole,I wouldn't dare try to make you believe
that from the early nineties on,the beating
around the bush art dealers eventual negotiations
were over and out for good in the hill climbing
artist's life. Not quite just yet,I'm
afraid.However, the past likewise situations
quantity were severely minimized in equal
proportion to Antonio Pessoa's increasing
success,financial status and oeuvre sales rates.
One way or another this specific idea of the
streetwise wiseguy art dealer,far from having
traumatized him,whatsoever,on the contrary it
provided the artist's imagination with that spicy
something which over the years,now and
then,actually managed to ignite his inspiration
just enough to come up with a reasonable amount
of artworks representing his own light-hearted(
almoust hilarious ) interpretation of this art
market small-timers who unfortunately never seem
to successfully grab the intelligent dynamic
context of what a long-term profitable business
relationship between artist and mediator is
actually all about.What a shame,if you ask me!
Anyway... Antonio Pessoa Stage Time Going
pleasantly through the process of imprinting new
values,innovative artistic concepts and multiple
changes into his life and career,absolutely clear
on the on-going and upcoming procedures,mind made
up and totally focused on a positive affirmation
of his beliefs,directing the visual arts to the
end result he wants and the World simply
adores,feeling the emotion that goes along with
self-discovery,sharing,art action,live
performance and worldwide communication,Antonio
Pessoa's life and work manifest in direct
proportion to the stimulating communication
frequency between art and public. Mainly for the
past two years Pessoa has been working with a
particularly powerful creative attitude and in
the meantime in these two years he has been able
to completely change his life and consequently
his artistic message and style.It seems like
there has been a blessed miracle after miracle
since he has adopted the new attitude,outlook of
life and developed his positive energy. Antonio
Pessoa's course changed the way he dared to
imagine,therefore paint and act. He's a much
better person and artist today and he has
attracted wonderfull people into his life.He has
a new circle of friends,all positive,like minded
people who help him with extra-studio work,such
as clients mailing lists,exhibitions art
curating,public relations in Europe and United
States ,you name it. His new wonderful lifestyle
and attitude provide him with an infinite sense
of inner peace translated to creative extra-
imagination and consequently it's obvious his
life is heading in the right direction. The
artist's success naturally is religiously
following his positive thinking optimistic rock-
solid attitude and his determination to focus on
making art the best way he knows how.And,by the
way,believe me,he definitely does know how! Enjoy
this amazing contemporary fine art that already
has become even more colorful,lively ,exciting
and new.Stage Time,acrylic on canvas,Antonio
Pessoa 2008,tells us about certain events (
eventually! ),magnetic experiences and unique
people he systematically draws into his
life,apparently almost as by magical currents.
Stage Time,more than visioning,it reflects the
artist's day-to-day studio,social and
professional outs and abouts,explicit prevailing
challenges,in short,the essential factors in the
positive influences Universe around him,life's
dynamic articulation itself,a whole of summarized
activities,of mastering intense living efficiency
and the inevitable art vision always ready to
create new worlds,as the artistic alternate
reality.What is indeed interesting is that Pessoa
in Stage Time seems to be willing to define his
adventurous real-life episodes as aesthetic and
convincingly abstract. Exploring
life,illuminating the viewers and imagining
anyplace,anytime between the present and the
future...or even maybe,eternity. Systematically
growing and coming up with innovative art
expression possibilities in an ever-changing
global contemporary art scene,Pessoa proves to be
driven by his solid commitment to continuous
quality improvement and to exceeding our
expectations. Let the dice roll,seems to be the
message of this canvas punctually entitled Stage
Time,as if shouting "the show must go on",maybe
another artwork aiming at cultivating living
burning desire,enough plausible arguments to be
found in this painting's almost random
magnetism,or to put it in another way,very
probably the artist is actually underlining the
guidelines of super- living,stating it's about
time for full swing action,spectacular
situations,glamorous moments succumbing to the
temptations of the flesh? Apparently to many ifs
and buts.At last check,maybe what's at stake it's
for him to know and for the viewer to find
out.After all,that's the beautiful mystery of
art,if you ask me. It's obvious Antonio Pessoa
doesn't forget to take time to visualize life's
edge,no boundaries required whatsoever,probably
the most important and exciting might as well be
the exhilaration he feels upon creating visual
situations pretending they have already
happened ...and Bingo!He is right there where he
wants to be! Fabulous,flashy,ambiguous and
unique,leaving the art lover waiting until
tomorrow for the next chapter of the artist's
Stage Time. Nevertheless,one way or another, the
idea and most importantly the unbreakable Stage
Time attitude has always been Antonio Pessoa's
omnipresent playground. A professional musicien
since the age of fourteen,no wonder he is
definitely a stage veteran,a Life Stage
veteran,experienced in the art of direct
communication,and at last check,familiarized with
the fascinating real-life divine madness,in a
manner of speaking. Throughout his
life,musicien,traveller and artist,experiences
life stage performance while developing his views
and thereby empirically learning what's
absolutely required and necessary to be a
sovereign master of this reality show like real-
time communication. Antonio Pessoa's insight as
he here obviously proclaims that life is a stage
and we are the actors on that stage,leads him to
come up with another charming painting whose
title combines and heralds his vision of what the
essential nature of existing and sharing a world
such as our planet is actually all about.
Basically random thoughts inspired by his
everyday living,a range of conclusions sources
plus a whole sea of people admitting and fully
understanding that indeed after all life is but a
stage. Stage Time engages the viewer by clearly
projecting and helping to identify this Playing-
Living-Learning-Acting positive attitude,a
difference that after all makes the difference
between small-time nickel-and-dime mediocrity and
big-time personal success. According to the
artist's cognitive latest experiences,Stage Time
had to be born sooner or later pointing out this
concept,inevitably supporting the evidence of the
explicit message of this canvas. The author's
beliefs and feasible approach to
perceiving,experiencing,living,learning and
consequently adopting a truthful and reliable
role as a star on life's stage,as far as I can
recall it has always been one of Antonio Pessoa's
priorities,whenever it comes the time to be once
again inevitably involved in the fascinating and
sometimes stressful display of events and very
often unexpected awkward situations,the
educational how-to Bible,life's stage,this only
in a lifetime mysterious performance we all have
to experience,deal with,share,play the best way
we know how and preferably enjoy. Through this
increasing process of giving contemporary art a
new voice,Pessoa goes on and on surprising us
with his natural gift and ability to congratulate
the art lovers with a large field of immortal
subjects,looking at the outside world's orchestra
as a composer listening,hearing,watching and
observing in order to capture and thereby express
the music and poem of life's adventure,flame and
challenge,using the visual tools as an accurate
interpretation of existence,adding some magical
special effects,however clearly and truthfully
reporting what we intimately already know,but yet
love to see it rearranged by the delicious
reality filter only art can provide. Experienced
in dealing with real-life with means at hand and
circumstances as they are,he is by now supposed
to be seriously accepted as a truly reliable
wisdom source and a valuable reference,not only
in today's art scene but mainly within the whole
of the worldwide talented observing
greatminds,determined to reach the highest level
of awareness and most importantly,share valuable
conclusions,after all and as time goes by the
infinite greatest contribution for,indeed a
better world to live in. Antonio Pessoa's
communication power through art is based on his
intention and sharp conscience and on how he
actually proves systematically to be more and
more capable to draw on the creative process as a
spiritual path. After endless examinations of how
Pessoa indeed manages to make the soul visible
through abstract fine art,challenging us to aim
high with his punctual visual literature,bringing
beauty and a fresh outlook of life to our
depleted and cynical world,I easily jump once
again to the final conclusion that his Life Stage
concept talks basically about the key role of our
inner mind,perception and ideology when it comes
the time to open the doors and get in the racing
flow of passionate actions creating successive
magnetizing waves of causes ans effects as the
ultimate commitment to something so eternal and
wonderfully essential as the challenging process
of making our dreams come true! Antonio Pessoa
STUDIO 1 Now that the mild mediterranean winter
is gone once again the whell of the year has
brought the warm air and the sugary smell of
springtime,inspiring bursts of colors exploding
in the sky then landing in the artist's studio up
for a happy display of art sessions as they float
down the river of Antonio Pessoa's
imagination,the magical springtime creative fuel
inspiring wall-size images,gorgeous
motions,amazing tales and awesome contemporary
fireworks! Now that the hibernation is over the
create- criteria is back again,a warm welcome
back Mr.Art Magician,after the festive cold
December Saturday Nights,it seems we now have a
full calendar of live studio performance,the one
thing about Pessoa we fortunately can always
count on. The artist is once again
inspired,motivated and willing to share that
gifted talent with others.We expect him to remain
rock-solid back in business in order to approach
his art magic in better and more powerful ways.
So let's take a trip through the world of the
charismatic fine art storyteller,meet the man,see
his ideas,feel his emotions and enjoy his lastest
oeuvre. Welcome my friends to Antonio Pessoa's
Studio 1,the space where it's taking place
another intensive,unpredictable art action
period. The artist's Home Studio is now divided
in seven departments,each one of them specially
equipped with huge stocks of art material for
different specific functions performances.With
this plurality of art labs,the artist moves about
the mansion,his living and creative domain,a
professionally organized art factory,where the
upcoming fine art wonders are just about to
happen,certainly bound to give birth to another
astonishing art collection. That's the
life,that's the way to do it,Ladies and
Gentlemen,in order to accomplish his
traditional , reputable super art production,from
drawings to collages,from watercolors to king-
size canvases. Here comes the sun and
consequently here comes another artistic marathon
which surely will culminate in yet another
amazing series of striking contemporary artworks.
During the year 2007,Antonio Pessoa becomes one
of the most reviewed artists in the world,thanks
to my spare time retired reporter condition and a
very special thank you to Pierre Fontanals,Luis
Santiago and Nancy Anderson,just to mention a
few,who had the ability to know how to establish
and maintain a fantastic teamwork spirit and
light atmosphere.Also a very special thank you to
the artist for his punctual,regular collaboration
concerning our private and group
sessions,providing us with truthful and accurate
information about his past and current life outs
and abouts,plus his remarkable assistance related
to helping us to understand and decipher the deep
meaning of his huge oeuvre artworks,one by one.
Like old valuable
manuscripts,translating,interpreting Pessoa's
past and current artworks plus rather relevant
aspects of his past and current private
life,providing exemplary and valuable information
to our customers and public,has been and it is
always a rather intensive laborious task,let
alone putting it all down in words,turning them
into easy-digest literature articles aiming at a
wide range of art lovers and public in
general,which is the final process,however
definitely not the easiest one. Since the
extravagant golden years of Antonio Pessoa's
renown,even mythical and legendary Romantic
Period,1997-2202,Studio 1 in the year 2007
succeeded becoming one more time a brand-new
version of the late nineties artistic production
phenomenon,this time now featuring the positive
prominent aspects and best characteristics of a
serious full-lengh commitment to a totally
original new line of striking contemporary fine
art. Financially supported by a list of more than
five thousand regular clients,local and
international,Antonio Pessoa uses this particular
privilege to create totally stress-free,focused
on his studio work and most importantly making
truly artistic wonders with no negative
interferences whatsoever,let alone the highly
annoying stigma of worry,rush,hurry and smashing
pressure. Therefore,it's been within this
pleasurable and relaxing microclimate that the
positive atmosphere of Studio 1,gave and gives
birth to the most genuine Antonio Pessoa's
quality art performance up to now.Fact. 2007 has
been a year of great ideas and new
accomplishments,increasing the artist's
composition level and skills.Most importantly
it's been a year throughout which Pessoa has
proven to have the proper knowledge,determination
and vision to reinforce his style and brand,and
in so doing building a general idea and
reputation concerning his new oeuvre,the
wonderful purity of his contemporary fine art
cutting edge. Easy and readable for the average
viewer,transparent and impactful for the erudite
art-connoisseurs educated taste,in spite of the
great amount of mystery and
ambiguity,purposefully challenging the eye and
the senses with the sweet-bitter flavour of
vagueness,that playful misleading multi-defined
symbology with a value which arouses our
aesthetic pleasure before a specific oeuvre when
the boundaries of meaning are indistinct. Still
too premature to tell and comment from such a
short perspective the extent to which Studio 1 is
going to become another mythical historic
prodigious phenomenon such as Antonio Pessoa's
Romantic Period,we might as well however consider
the possibility that this previously explored
area,might actually already be moving upwards in
such an apparently invisible manner we can't
afford to detect,let alone see,for the results
haven't quite yet turned out to be unquestionable
facts,nevertheless,knowing the artist's
creativeness,imagination and power of
attraction,one should already safely
assume,presume and even take for granted that
eventually anything is possible,even our wildest
dreams and expectations related with Pessoa's
upcoming soon future,no matter how skeptical our
worldly common sense tells us our outlook should
be. Five breathtaking years have gone by since
the last days of the Romantic Period,definitely
not an eternity yet a space in time adventurous
enough to launch the idea that indeed Antonio
Pessoa should be by now a different man from the
light cheerful one from those extravagant days of
Atlantis. However this concept or evaluation
could easily make it sound like the overstatement
of the century. In spite of the inevitable
facts,priority issues plus the artist's current
general situation aren't what they used to be,the
man's nature remains intrinsically the same
whereas his maturity has developed a trained
discernment,inevitably conducting to a
substantial body of new and stronger
capabilities,a new fundamental inner-self
emotional autonomy and obviously a remarkable
updated approach to contemporary art expression
and communication. The artist's 2007 Timeless
Time Art Collection - http://timelesstime-
artcollection- ap.blogspot.com - can be used as
the most reliable
mirror,reflecting,witnessing,reporting and
consequently helping us to reinforce this theory
and subscribe to this point of view,for it's
plenty understood by now that Antonio Pessoa's
latest oeuvre has the conspicuous self
biographical caliber and attitude of a diary.
Paintings such as Universal Time,Free,Out of the
Blue,Cosmic Cognition,Spiritual Light,Night
Wits,Burning Flame,Living Joy,Night
Gospel,etc,show us clearly the artist's full
commitment to an evolutionary path for a self
discovery therapy intensive apprenticeship.
Through this systematic daily ritual focused on
exploring health and wellness,self-
discipline,personal growth and spiritual
power,Antonio Pessoa reaches a dimension of art
expression of broad sensorial horizons and
consequently attracting and leading the viewers
to this wonderful,fulfilling experience,embarking
them on the realms of the mind's infinite inner
potential. This spiritual transformation
steadiness,has been so far the step by step
progress to mastery,which made way for a
considerable amount of followers willing to
share,learn and grow with the available
intructing support,tutorials and guidance of
Pessoa's knowledge and wisdom. Even some of his
pragmatically irrefutable pro- real-life
skeptical good old friends such as Ariana
Sabugal,Marie Louise Lambert,Carmen Olaya and
Marc Gilot,seem to have unconditionally
surrendered to the tempting delights and well-
being excellent prospects of the artist's
spiritual method at last check. Marie Louise
Lambert and Marc Gilot after a couple of weeks
living in the relaxing peaceful comfort of
Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1,went back to Paris with
a new outlook of life and most importantly
genuinely converted to the Universal Awareness
rewarding principles. No big surprise after
all.These purifying winds of changes blowing
across the artist's life and perception,driving
him to looping and swirling into a more relaxed
spiritual state,have proven to be the expected
prophetic reference featuring an entirely new
living formula and lifestyle,opening windows
overlooking a freshwater river of
freedom,happiness and heavenly joy. Thereby,no
wonder that creative visualization,spiritual
growth,mind power,free inspiration,turned out to
become the essential keys for Antonio Pessoa's
increasing personal success,let alone the
materialization of one of his most striking
quality contemporary fine art series. Striving to
provide an affordable alternative to average
contemporary art,Antonio Pessoa's approach to
developing a totally new concept of abstract fine
art came up with brilliant results mainly during
the past two years,by creating through
spontaneous action art an absolutely free
style,in which an impressive traffic of colors
and symbols play an important role in providing
the viewer with thousands of interpretation
options prominently featured like a magic
engine,and in so doing the artist manages to pull
in a significant immediate steady stream of
awesome visual illusions. In spite of going on
using the traditional fine art thecnical concept
of the great modern masters,Pessoa indeed
succeeds creating a cutting- edge innovative
visual potential with additional subjective
codes,the viewers readily join and enjoy with
effortless increasing curiosity,enthusiasm and
amusing uncertainty. If Antonio Pessoa - Romantic
Period's Studio Atlantis was characterized by an
extravagant atmosphere,the soul of a vast scenery
of hiper- intensive art performance,modern art-
oriented,Studio 1,has been so far cultivating a
worldwide attitude and a flamboyant outlook of
today's art scene,fact which results flow turned
out to be a dynamic on-going project inspired by
a strong,impactful contemporary fine art
prototype plus an artistic unmistakable stamp and
brand. The immense potential of Pessoa's Studio
1, is as yet far from being fully worked out and
for a long time to come will have to prove the
effectiveness of its intentions,by meeting
international specific targets and furthermore be
able to understand the demands and timing of a
whole new generation of art gallery owners,art
collectors,art lovers,media and worldwide public.
Studio 1's Project is surfing through multiple
waves of fresh ideas and new concepts,not only
related with the creation of a relevant new
abstract formula of contemporary art but also
inspired by Antonio Pessoa's increasing interest
in the rewarding process of the discovery of
inner self and subconscious mind infinite
potential. These and those issues are actually
succeeding creating a rather amazing togetherness
making way for both a new spiritual vision and
the new art vision already an on-going full swing
experimentation,which results are by now
available for the world's eye throughout the
artist's latest series. However unpredictable as
life itself,Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1 already
highlights an overview into the future,personal
methods of extracting innovative artistic and
practical solutions,by now stimulated by the
public reactions and effects to the artist's
latest creative proliferation let alone his
quality art expression achievements and striking
improvement. Antonio Pessoa Perception Nothing is
ever too much,nothing is ever too
universal,nothing is ever too wonderful when it
comes the time for any art lover to enter Antonio
Pessoa's world of Perception,Art,Poetry and
Awareness. As in the final countdown,his life has
developed the wildest ride of a thrilling cyclone
roller coaster,pleasure mixed with Blues,quickly
become a firm creative power,one of those that
turns you upside-down.If you don't know what it
is like to really live on the edge,then take my
good advice and start reading all you can about
Antonio Pessoa,the most brilliant and thrilling
adventure of today's contemporary art scene.Fact!
All reviews and information about the artist are
essentially a breathtaking unique
biography,mixing chills with fun,mixing art with
life itself. Danger,passion,intense
emotions,blues and Opera,Comedy and Drama,are the
face of one of the world's most spectacular
cutting edge artists. PERCEPTION? Find the answer
to this question and millions more,in this
enjoyably dark,yet still very sensual and
romantic lifestyle. Straight right up to the
tension filled final of every of his artistic and
real-life performances,when he will have you on
the edge of your emotional box.
Perception,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa
2007,is unquestionably a result of many years of
studio art action experience,research and
reflection,a brilliant colorful abstract painting
where the viewer is face to face with images
propagating amazing waves of colors,light and
sound being pleasantly thrown to the eye and our
senses right from the canvas surface. One of the
most charming artworks of Pessoa's 2007 art
collection,Perception has that special buzz of
excitment,rapid vibration,motion and strong
visual impact,yet it's soothing something
projects almost a healing energy for mind,body
and the eye,inspiring poetic sensations of pure
organic fountains,plus that chromatic quality in
the whole of its exuberant,abstract,sensuously
radiant affinities of colors and symbols.
Expressing a new vision and a totally new
artistic vocabulary,Perception has that abstract
expressionism unique lyrical style,nevertheless
also clearly influenced by surrealism,conceptual
art,yet never missing the futurism artistic
design Pessoa is so fond of,thereby creating that
linear decorative dynamic impact,plus a reaction
leading to subjective and entirely free
interpretation. Regardless of his increasing
artistic skills and striking creativeness,Antonio
Pessoa becomes more and more popular mainly for
his unique lifestyle and his inner-self personal
achievements,acquiring world-renown prestige and
wide credibility,through the stimulating and
rewarding process of how to unlock his full
potential for striking artistic
performance,personal success and a high quality
professional level,becoming his international
autograph,the significance of how his impressive
fast self-improvement in all areas and attitudes
has indeed accelerated his echoing reputation as
a fully commited spiritual guide,expert,let alone
his highly-respected artistic vision,inner and
universal Perception. Paying tribute to him and
in faithful recognition of his multiple
achievements,close friends,collaborators,art
critics,clients,art collectors and soul mates of
the fine art trade,now frequently honor him with
a natural awestruck approach and genuine
admiration. Entering his studio,very often
demanding his wise advice,show us clearly how so
many people enjoy being in the realms of his
glowing positive energy,happy,free,safe and at
ease before his charismatic and charming manner
in which Pessoa's ambiguous relation with
life,people and the Universe,translates a highly
advanced Perception,making obvious that living
feeling alive is not a special gift or a way of
going through life,but actually the only one.
Perception,the dream of life creativeness as
outcome of Antonio Pessoa's number one
priority,it starts in the character of a solid
experienced artist,reinforced through daily
research in all areas with inspiring
enthusiasm,attracting affection,love and respect
among all his friends,collaborators and public in
general. If indeed Pessoa is helplessly becoming
a inevitable life coach,that's not what's at
stake right now,for most importantly is the fact
he is becoming one of the most inspiring art
wizards of today's art scene. Antonio Pessoa's
Perception creates clarity and eliminates
doubt,invents a higher level of positive
motivation,his confidence in himself and in his
abilities grow,the artist actually sees what he
can be! Often,the hardest thing about visioning
is actually having the Perception of what we want
to bring into existence can actually be
accomplished. To really make it happen,and he
sure does,Pessoa supersedes his own doubts and
has a sense of certainty that what he wants can
be accomplished. The artist on his vision has a
faith in Perception that is greater than his
fears and it's willing to open his mind to see
beyond the confines of what he is facing
today.Remarkable,indeed! Antonio Pessoa Trial by
Fire Once again the artist delivers the ultimate
thrill,as we all look genuinely awestruck before
one more It's Hard to Believe sort of
challenge,through which the art creator's
puzzling experiments insist in preparing us yet
for another public Watchout session.Fair enough.
What is this all about,after all,you may ask.Let
me explain. Commited himself to the achievement
os self- development all areas highest
levels,Antonio Pessoa combines information...or
should I say,Knowlrdge ...from multiple
resources,thereby getting instant access to this
fascinating dimension of living magic and most
importantly to this highly effective mind power
multilateral expertise. Emerging across all the
information available,the artist's determination
and traditional straightforwardness seem to be
once again tough enough to track the whole of
this advanced tutorials,leaving us to absolutely
expect the upcoming high-impact all this wisdom
structure and mastery are going to have in his
private life,art performance,lifestyle and most
importantly in his public projection,as the
paradigmatic entrepreneur artist of our times and
obviously as the new generation great
communicator. Getting ready to indeed operate a
daring new artistic enterprise and worldwide
venture,Pessoa inevitably assumes a great deal of
accountability for the inherent
risks,setbacks,stand bys,ins and outs and general
obstacles,definitely a scary process ( not for
all ) where getting accurate valuable advice and
cutting edge information never seems to be enough
in the new start-up stage of his current and
coming soon king-sized challenges where sharing
his responsibilities and vision with his
collaborators international team definitely
requires a proficiently advanced How- To
immediate decision making skills,where his mind
tools productive effectiveness will be
unquestionably on Trial by Fire! Taking a good
look at the tools,modus operandi,and processes
Antonio Pessoa continually uses in his rich and
colorful day to day life,we helplessly can't
resist to get a glimpse into the artist's life
latest news,always expecting the next episode to
be far more striking and exciting than the ones
before. People from all over Europe and United
States write to me telling us they indeed do
spend a lot of time researching and reading about
the artist's methods,deliciously grabbed and
entertained by how he systematically manages to
get off to a new blazing start just about to a
always unexpected new series of brilliant and
satisfying conclusions,as one of the art scene
world's most unique,amusing and amazing on-going
profiles. The extent to which Pessoa exhibits
various and interesting characteristics,provides
us with sufficient visibility to fully understand
his increasing degree of positive exposure to
public notice.Fact. Therefore,extinguishing the
fire with a calm spell seems to be right now the
hardest accomplishment for anyone within the
artist's friends circle. Besides,anyway,nobody
seems to have no reasons to actually wish that to
happen. Slowly but surely turned on by the
tempting idea of living feeling today everything
is possible,even his wildest dreams,Antonio
Pessoa uses his mind's full potential to wish
things to happen and surprise,surprise,fact is
that then they actually do. However there is
after all the secret,the special trick,which
enables the artist to deal with challenges he has
to face,by astonishingly quadrupling his
vision,knowledge,meeting the goal achievement
proper balance with his traditional rock-solid
determination to make the seemingly impossible a
now-reality. Sensitive,selective,fast and
accurate,the artist faithfully keeps on following
a truly effective method,which unfortunately for
most of us,strange as it seems,remains a one
million dollars secret! No doubt Pessoa must have
enough good reasons to have entitled this
painting "Trial by Fire ".Pure abstract
art,caughts the eye of the viewer,regardless the
message or meaning,however as we all become more
and more familiarized with the content-intent of
this particular artwork,which is after all,and
most important of all,the mirror reflecting the
powerful heart and soul of a life veteran sort of
artist,once again stubbornly committed to change
his mind's orientation,a current challenging
issue which has clearly shown itself to be by now
a striking method both proficient and highly
effective in all areas and in every step of the
way. Banking on proving to himself and to the
world that beyond the boundaries of conscious
self- evaluation,of conscious global
awareness,there is an endless wealthy empire of
possibilities,we so very often can't make
out,lost through our own mismanagement of our own
inner potential scenario,Antonio Pessoa records
in " Trial by Fire " the expanded universe
available to anyone willing to spend a reasonable
full time research aiming at reaching a level of
global expertise,the fuel of a dynamic and happy
life,wealthy innovations and new ways of viewing
the world through self-growth,after all the
magical counselling therapy providing a
lucid,original and effective practical guide to
how accomplish our most cinematic dreams taking
off from the deep valuable resources of our inner
mind. "Trial by Fire" definitely doesn't pretend
to suggest doubt about this high-efficiency
method,however clearly points out that the golden
results basically depend on absolute true
passion,daily focusing,solid motivation,a patient
step by step mind fitness plan,an increasing
magnitude unbreakable perspective and a whole lot
of multiple positive intentions,the ultimate goal
setting made easy. Pessoa couldn't have chosen a
better title for this mountains beyond mountains
of research and observation endless miles and
miles and miles to cross,climb and crawl,indeed a
Trial by Fire,engaged in fierce emotional
tournaments and daring journeys bound to where
the glowing pot is placed,solving ancient
mysteries hidden in plain sight from our
perception,knowledge and wise mindset awareness.
This painting once again rises an impressive new
set of questions. First and most important of
all,is Antonio Pessoa going to pass this stiff
examination entitled "Trial by Fire"? We all
believe he will,despite also acknowledging that
arriving safe and sound at the shining palace at
the end of the long and winding road,it's not
going to be a twelve minute extravaganza of
boiling fun. A mission impossible or a successful
accomplishment? I would rather emphasize a
mission accomplishment as an already now-reality
fact,running like a well-oiled machine. However
the big challenge is out there,waiting for an
artist willing to be playing with fire,by the
book and by the rules,a free trial available for
anyone,nevertheless a tough enough match only the
brave players can undertake when it comes the
time to jump into the titanic overwhelming arena
of the Trial by Fire! Antonio Pessoa Colors
Update Pessoa stains on watercolor paper,both
generously or feverishly adding water to the
tissue,following the spontaneous instructions of
his experienced intuition. His untouchable
imaginative endeavour,makes his fine art activity
an effortless almost unconscious
undertaking,apparently with no doubts about the
whole art action enterprise,whatsoever. His
quality work is thereby delivered and
accomplished by miracle,showing us once again
clear evidences of his privileged gift he
gracefully received and gratefully developed and
improved through this well-known systematic
exceptional working method and highly
professional attitude. Enchanting the world with
his inmitable visual flavours,colorful motions by
projecting his peculiar dynamic kaleidoscope of
pure contemporary poetry,Pessoa provides us with
this pleasant artistic metaphysics,visual
literature where elemental beauty of adventurous
power of invention leave art lovers deliciously
dazzled by the mastery through which he
artistically speaks his mind as his work becomes
more and more notorious like something truly
magical in today's contemporary art scene. From a
modern critical standpoint,Antonio Pessoa has
indeed this unique capacity to make us see things
that aren't actually there,that completely high
level when the viewer awakens suddenly and
contemplates the awesome abstract nature of
inspired combinated creative cutting edge. It's
work and play,flowing from one idea to another as
he walks us through the multiple artistic
possibilities,not only the quality evidence of a
life's work but a rather original
style,powerfully magnetic,intensive and new. Ups
and downs,ins and outs,don't seem to be able to
stop the artist,let alone take his burning fire
away.No stormy Monday,foggy Twesday or rainy day
seem to be capable to put his fire off,neither
thunderstorming,freezing or snowing events or
even setbacks,seem to succeed to list him among
the lost stars. If it's true that vulgarity
begins when imagination succumbs to the
explicit,then Antonio Pessoa's burning flame
fading out is definitely out of question. Back in
business after a good night sleep,no matter
what's at stake,no matter what it takes,the Show
must go on for today's visual arts most
adventurous and dynamic entertainer. Even feeling
quite often a bit burned out by pressure and life
in general,Pessoa's trained pro- life attitude
grants him what seems to be indeed a life time
heavenly Guardian Angel assistance,a whole great
amount of vital positive energy,showing him the
way and lead his project in full swing with the
hot fusion of mind power daily updates.
Therefore,COLORS UPDATE,watercolor and acrylic on
watercolor paper,Antonio Pessoa 2007,now it sure
seems like it was an accurate predicability of
the on-going art action and visual results of the
making of an impressive collection of cutting
edge mixed media artworks on watercolor tissue
and most importantly using a true revolutionary
method in the art of painting,which essential
characteristics is the magical experience of the
color stains taking spontaneous and absolute
control plus cellular autonomy of the art
action,just as in one of those amazing Walt
Disney best of productions animation fiction
wonders.Can you believe it? The art studio wizard
is back in business,a paradigmatic inspired fine
artist performing a striking number of art
magic ...or should I say ...contemporary
witchcraft? What do you know!Optical illusions
appear on the watercolor wet tissues,exhibiting a
breathtaking fairy magic fantasy festival . Art
reviews heralding "welcome back to the art
studio,Antonio Pessoa,sure thing,the place where
you definitely do belong." Breaking news never
seemed to be so easy,breaking news never seemed
to be so fulfilling,breaking news never seemed to
be so exciting,sensational,rewarding,delicious
and magical. The art studio wizard at work shows
us inevitably once again a truly special profecy
of contemporary art current-upcoming cutting
edge,as time goes by and the show must go on,and
it does,it's definitely a Must,Must,Must flash
point art performance,a Must elated blissed-out
phenomenon! Freeze,read my lips and mark my
words,one has actually got to see it to believe
it. Pessoa opens his studio doors for his
faithful,best and closest friends,the only ones
allowed to enter the cathedral of contemporary
fine art and thereby witness live and ablaze,a
landscape of chaotically displayed dozens and
dozens of watercolor tissues all over the
floor,miraculous visions on top of other textured
multicolored victorious artistic wonders.
Theoretically and apparently one could come up
with the possibility of an artist working
chaotically,which isn't definitely what is
happening. Colors in the air,that's more like
it,up they go and next thing you know they are
fast landing in artland,it's best to get down
quickly,for red,yellow,orange,brown,black and
blue color pigments are flying all over the place
like party decorations gone mad,precisely when
time awareness seems to have been suspended,sense
of reality expired and the artistic madness now
hitting us hard,nevertheless too late to warn us
how deliciously crazy we can go standing before
Antonio Pessoa's art action glowing exuberance
and original style extending well beyond the
inherited tradition of reasonable self-contained
art making.Too much of too much,believe me. Much
more than simply a Colors Update,the artist's
effortless studio live shows,leave us no doubts
of how far into artistic mastery he has already
gone,and a clear clue of how his strikingly
spectacular upcoming special effects aesthetic
achievements are unquestionably going to hit the
highest possible standards of quality
contemporary art,surely bound to inspire not only
the new generation of talented emerging artists
but also today's art collectors special
recognition of his creative skills and top of the
line awesome artistic accomplishments
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