After the Masterpiece concept,Antonio Pessoa comes up with Master Mind,another striking mixed media on canvas,where his will to develop in art,mind and soul,reaches his fullest mental,spiritual and artistic unfoldment,in other words,the efficient action of a contemporary artist becoming phenomenally successful as he gets closer and closer with the source of thought,life and art. Two years ago when Pessoa became conscious of the inexhaustible power in the world within,he starts this now on-going wonderfulperiod of contemporary expression,where this eternal energy is manifested in every canvas,drawing and watercolor.The result of this new age concepts and art collection is nothing less than marvelous.The artist becomes a live wire and his work and message a universal communication process,extraordinary in quality and limitless in quantity. These are incredibly important elements of his personal philosophy,but still,he keeps on coming up with much faster options and possibilities available to all of you,art lovers. This communication rocket of an idea is called Antonio Pessoa's Master Mind,and everything which involves. By doing the things that he believes ought to be done at the right time and in a certain way,and when he makes up his mind to do his very best,the artist inevitably provides the formula which makes contemporary art stand tall with its chin lifted. These are the reasons behind the creative secret.Causes behind all effects. Call it subliminal intelligence,sharp, ready- to-go. The artist's love for sharing is what keeps him going,hot bottons that systematically motivates him to create pleasurable emotions,that's after all what Master Mind is all about. To create the life and the art he wants accommodating art lovers needs as his Must priority. By realizing once and for all that he is the creator of his own life,the artist takes full responsibility for the choices and actions he makes."It's the only way to fly" he states,the keys to designing a fascinating lifelong learning process.Antonio Pessoa's trith and secret is basically making himself happening to his life.That's the ultimate truth and secret of Master Mind. The search continues,the research goes on,from the realm of contructive imagination to the reality of actual artistic and emotional results. It takes precision,timing and without a doubt,lots of focus to turn metaphors into effective formulas and powerful ways to inspire imagery and to unlock a successful performance potential. Taking off from the principle that imagination is more powerful than knoeledge,Pessoa painted Master Mind,as yet another symbol of his unbreakable belief in the infinite possibilities of the language of the Mind. Effective thought,hard work,persistence and preparation,the artist's ultimate steps in creating his fascinating reality. That's why he keeps om communicating through art and through his paradigmatic lifestyle the development of skills. That's why striking oportunities seek him out. Pessoa's reputation precedes him while the world runs to do business with him. It's not magic,it's Science,it's not superstition,it's Creative Genius,it's not motion pictures,it's Real,it's not religion,it's Alignment,it's not illusion,it's the fabulous universe of the Master Mind. It's not painful effort,it's Inspired Action,it's not a daydream,it's high quality Thought,it's not just words,it's a Fact,it's not selfish,It's for the People,it's not maybe someday,it's Here and Now,it's not supernatural,it's the Master Mind ! In Master Mind,Antonio Pessoa expresses the power of conscious growth.The summary of this artistic exercise,reveals that nothing that man can think is impossible in action.Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.Pessoa comes back into the contemporary art scene with a predisposition to grow along certain amazing lines,and in so doing,life,art,business and communication is easier for him along those lines than in any other way. He becomes a guru young genius,with a current now attitude in the process of being brought forth. A special artist to whom many many emerging artists go for advice,someone who these days is instinctively recognized as being great in wisdom and insight. Just like a magnificent steamer with the engines in place and the machinery in perfect order.The artist is thereby amply provisioned for the fascinating cruise ahead. His Art and Message is excellent and growing better. A view of evolution of the Master Mind! While the artist keeps on going laser focused on his multiple projects,namely the New Age Art Collection,and Contemporary Drawings Art Collection - a revival,one could say of his legendary Black and White album, his dynamic co- workers team make the steadfast decisions to evaluate the various tools available,widely choosing the ones that best fit Antonio Pessoa's personal concepts regarding online communication. Veterans as they are,they don't seem a bit intimidated by the amount of continue education they need to do as inspired net marketers.After all it all revolves around taking the artist's message to a certain group of individuals.The Art Collectors audience. This web traffic generation drive Pessoa's team to systematically come up with new methods,as the priority key to master the huge areas of internet communication.Most important of all,the public need and the legitimate right to learn and be updated about Antonio Pessoa's latest Oeuvre has long turned out to be a Must daily ritual. Master Mind is just another important artwork within Pessoa's Contemporary Fine Art series,the result of his growing understanding of the most wonderful mechanism which has been created,providing the artist with this exciting process of evolution which he knows it's contantly building our tomorrows out of our todays,with an ever-increasing capacity and volume. By possessing this valuable poise and harmony within,Antonio Pessoa now enjoys life and art in perfect tune with eternal truth. Here,then and once again,is the secret of the artist's creative power,where space and time have become onlu figures of speech. With Master Mind,the artist once again establishes that in the first place,there is the great mental world in which he lives and moves and has his being. Most important of all his solid willingness to share it with all of us! Antonio Pessoa's top secrets,are basically the systematic use of Master Mind as the most powerful tool to create,communicate and share. What the artist's contemporary series radiate outward is therefore an abundant flow of quality thoughts,feelings and messages,of unconditional love,positive expectation and faith. Stepping into ease creates ease. The artist trusts in divine timing,trusts in divine order,so no wonder everything now in his life is happening in perfect order. Solution oriented with Master Mind as his priority source at his service,Pessoa has become an inspiration for many artists,co- workers,friends and collaborators and has become a real role model among the worldwide art scene community. Master Mind is yet another result of skill and a persistently positive attitude. On the whole,the artist's global message is a form of super positive hypnosis where the academic side of art and life supreme have now become and amazing two-in-one combination. Change is the ongoing cycle of Pessoa's dynamic modus operandi.Imtroducing new ideas and concepts all the time,faster than art collectors demand for something exciting and amazingly different to happen in the Art Scene. It's pretty obvious art public deep down inside want change for when something new is introduced into the art market they are quick to embrace it. Herein lay one of the greatest Antonio Pessoa's secrets of his success,The Master Mind of an artist with new ideas,projects and visions. The artist creates Master Mind totally conscious of the art and science of prosperous and creative living. Narrowed down to its basics it's meant to spread the around the concept that you will reap whatever type of energy you sow. Thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore endowed with creative power. During the making of Master Mind,and at a certain point of a private conversation with the artist,Antonio Pessoa sits down for a relaxing while and explains the fascinating principles which brought into operation the making of this particular canvas.He says that the conscious and subconscious are but two phases of action in connection with one mind. The relation of the subconscious is quite analogous to that existing between a weather vane and the atmosphere. Master Mind expresses the universal energy in which all motion,light,heat and color have their origins.Pessoa acquants himself with the knowing quality of Mind and through it he moves upon the universal substance and therefore he now effortlessly brings it into harmonious relations in his life,professional affairs and most importantly his contemporary fine art series. As far as artistic references go,Antonio Pessoa keeps on the look out,open minded and widely eclectic.Galerie Carzaniga Basel,provides him with interesting influences like Franz Bernhard,Julius Bissier,Luca Caccioni,René Fendt,definitely one of his favorites among the wise selection of Carzaniga Basel,but that's not the only one.Lenz Klotz might as well be one of the strongest models to inspire the artist in his increasing research through the Modern Art and Contemporary Art most interesting possibilities. It's quite obvious that Galerie Carzaniga Basel gives the artist quality keys in the form of excellent abstract art. Tobias Sauter takes Pessoa by surprise,precisely these days when most of the latest Modern Art,seemed to have stopped feeding him inspiration,oftentimes to the point of ultimate boredom. That's also not the case of talented Mark Tobey,also represented by Galerie Carzaniga Basel,and the options go on and on, namely with Zaccheo Zilioli,Lucas Rapold,Rolf Iseli and some others,available at one of the artist's favorite art galleries such as the swiss Carzaniga Basel. Antonio Pessoa's constructive work of artistic references research stimulates his daily creative process,predetermines new ideas,preceding innovative formulas and thereby throwing more light upon the creative imagination before and mean while art action takes place. To be or not to be visible,that is stepping outside the old limitations of thinking,feeling,living and art performing. Antonio Pessoa has long got out of the box,out of the old artistic patterns and opened himself to a newer,exciting,adventurous,freer form of expression,this form,now portrayed in Master Mind is far more expansive and now lets art collectors and public see a whole lot more of who this unique inspired young contemporary Greatmaster really is. Antonio Pessoa has become a magnet! Have you ever been in a room full of people when someone walks in the door and everyone stops and stares? What about the artist that is so fascinating,so appealing?What is it that draws everyone to him? It's his radiance of inner light,the Master Mind! Antonio Pessoa's exciting daily life is also - as we all know by now - a live stage of connections,business relationships,meetings,projects,complex challenges and of course his religious art studio performance rituals. These days Pessoa is leading a fantastic team,much more than a communication department,an entire organization,totally focused on what he wants to achieve in the short term,what he wants to create in the longer term and what he wants to share with others,namely art gallery owners,art collectors,private clients,friends and public,while much of his skills are made of lifelong learning,the optional extra which explains his leadership success,comes from this infinite valuable source of quality thought and inspired action he absolutely expresses in Master Mind. It is all too easy to look at him who achieves success as an artist and as a leader and believe he had it very easy.The reality is that Antonio Pessoa's secret is his unbreakable willingness to think in a Certain Way,take action and work hard to achieve the brilliant results,which is now succeeding to make him earn respect and solid reputation all over the world. Pessoa's Master Mind ( collage and mixed media on canvas ) comes up as another opportunity to unveil the Life Coach,the Greatmaster,the new age scientist,the inner critic,the Art Expert,the studio wizard,the art critic,and the great communicator. Quality thoughts,wise words,inspired action,increasingly aiming at a healthy and wealthy destiny. Highly effective in his objective self- criticism,Antonio Pessoa refers to Master Mind as his latest symbol of all artistic and cultural influence. Long are the Romantic Period days where artists such as José Maria Barreiro,Xaime Quesada,Rufino Peral,Rafael Alonso,Ana Legido and Laxeiro,were a systematic subliminal message and a strong reference to Pessoa's artist style and subjects,in spite of the outstanding results he was more than talented enough to write down in oil on canvas. The so called Plástica Gallega was by then his reality show,already working with several major art dealers such as Carlos Alvarez ( Monteblaco ),Vicente Fernandez Lago ( still his unbeatable and faithful partner and patron) and Carlos Villa Rodriguez ( Arte Alpide ),Vigo - Galicia - Spain. Master Mind is after all a result of the artist's increasing passion for the universal science of the inner gifts and Mind potential. If Night Gospel was a Finding-His-Way throughout the realms of the subconscious,a revelation of the amazing and rewarding continuous engagement in acquiring,assimilating and applying knowledge during sleep,in the context of self-directed growth using the Alpha dimension learning process,Master Mind determines a definite evolution,a much more powerful way to improve thoughts quality. Antonio Pessoa's growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new,of the good for the better. Paintings like Free,The Belief Generator,Living Joy and New Solutions were actually making way for Master Mind and all which this canvas involves in terms of self- improvement,with similar sense of purpose of what the artist was able to attract,what the artist was able to extract from each experience,while each experience was giving birth to a specific related artwork. "Ask and it is Given", it is what the artist wishes to express in this unique artwork. It is shouting out "There are two ways to make it in this mysterious journey called Life.The hard way or Mastering our Mind!" Pessoa's focus is on results and productivity,rather than in frantic activity. Overcoming limiting beliefs - or what was left of them - seems to have been the artist's priority through this fantastic concentrated systematic research. Breaking out from limiting beliefs - or what was left of them - and entering the one-way- ticket universe of unlimited dreams,is clearly all over the artist's latest Contemporary New Age Art Collection. Using Imagery as the Key to unlock his reputable performance potential to its highest level has indeed enabled the artist to now enjoy a sifnificant mental advantage,visualized and then skillfully expressed by his lifestyle,his wide communication achievements and his impactful visual arts language. The Master Mind universe is powerfully governing every aspect of Antonio Pessoa's life today,overflowing with billions of positive inspiring and exciting results. For every success story in the world of Modern and Contemporary Art,there are sure hundreds of unrealized dreams.By discovering the tweaks and tricks of Mind Power,artist Antonio Pessoa is by now increasing the odds that he is willing to share the exciting odyssey of how his Life and Art came to flourish. Like all successful entrepreneurs,the artist stays the course and first of all he doesn't allow himself to be easily distracted from what he has set out to do. Deliver the kind of new concepts,visual combinations and open communication that art dealers and art collectors are looking to get. To become a successful artist with the right mindset,it's all about Master Mind and particularly Pessoa's beliefs and reality. The most important secret for the artist's success,in my opinion as a personal friend,life veteran and art critic,is the powerful key he has developed to get his Mindset right. For a few,Antonio Pessoa's phenomenon might seem like fantasy,who cares,because fact is for most of the public it's a dream lifestyle they want to be involved in! One of Antonio Pessoa's great discoveries and adopted models recently has been Pia Fries,represented by Distrito Cuatro art gallery in Madrid,Spain. Pia Fries becomes one of the artist's favorites in today's art scene,as Pessoa definitely gives his thumbs up for Galeria Distrito Cuatro for such a wise option and deliberate choice where talent,skills,technique,come up as the perfect combination of high quality contemporary fine art,Antonio Pessoa so much admires. The excellent Oeuvre of Pia Fries,as for right now,has become one of the artist's top models for his daily inspiration and most important of all as one of the most important paradigmatic New Art forms and a good demonstration of how traditional Fine Art techniques should keep on being priority number one within today's contemporary cutting edge concepts. Master Mind is essentially the visible-visual manifestation of Pessoa's internal beliefs about Life,quality thought,Art,health and abundance. Master Mind involves a do-it-yourself key system that the artist practices on a daily basis . Quantum physics and cutting edge energetic beliefs,when and where the priority aim is to attract unlimited possibilities in every area of life,Art and communication. Master Mind expresses the artist's fully commitment experiencing this great shift and this rewarding internal change bound for the great flow of abundance in all areas and in all directions and styles. As a result of systematically researching and practicing this wildly effective Energy Technology,Antonio Pessoa literally and virtually has accomplished a longstanding positive Mind power,a super Belief Generator,time and time again transforming his life and his art performance into an astonishing real-world absolute success. Ahead of any other Pessoa's quality is his personal motivation.If he wants it,he can have it, ( whatever it is ) by simply doing enough of the right things. Burning desire,Imagination,ability and knowledge seems to be getting him what he wants and therefore what he is willing to share with all the worldwide public. An exciting way of leading his life,the artist throughout his twenty-four hours a day period only chooses to think and to do what realistically determines the best and the most rewarding outcomes. That's his Master Mind running laser-focused all the time,day after day,without the need of any special concentration effort. The art studio veteran knows too well that quality thought plus inspired massive action will definitely achieve massive positive results and accomplished projects. The New Age special one artist,the confident persona,delivers New Art,new ideas and new concepts with the expert confidence which only Master Mind can provide.And as a confident artist his increasing credibility and influence are now the ultimate stamp of his global reputation. Master Mind is the ultimate expression of mastering the feeling and Life of Freedom that is close to Heaven on earth. Antonio Pessoa's contemporary Fine Art series,where it's obviously included Master Mind as one of its most symbolic and paradigmatic artworks,is an approach that talks about getting everything out of Life - creating a Life worth living - by fully leveraging quality thoughts,inner power,imagination,skills and uniqueness. Pessoa's Master Mind global picture may sound like magic,however it is actually something like the Law of Attraction working full-swing. Yey,the whole exciting idea is also about preparation,also requires patience and systematic introspection and passionate research. The artist is fully aware that a whole lot of practice was absolutely required before he was actually ready to go. Now,he performs with pleasure,the Master of his Mind,of his Life,Art,destiny and Project. No Fairy Tale whatsoever,for he also knows this is where he has got to keep more laser- focused than ever on what he wants to make happen. In this specific mixed media-collage on canvas,Antonio Pessoa,as a Mind and super Intuition Expert,seems to be asking the viewer to think about the Manifestation Method. Oftentimes during the making of Master Mind,the artist sets time aside to sit in silence before stand up once again before the easel to go on putting the concept of Big Life,dreams and desires on canvas,in such a unique contemporary and neo-surrealistic manner. As a Law of Attraction expert and Life Coach,Pessoa lets the viewer free and willing to take the fascinating experience of exploring the process of the Manifestation Method a little further. Believe it and let's accept it,the artist consciously creates this amazing canvas to activate and share this powerful new world of infinite possibilities with the Public,so we can all send that super positive energy into the ethers of the Universe. This is the soul of Master Mind,filling the vacuum,because for the artist it makes more than perfect sense that the moment vacuum is formed the Universe rushes in to fill the empty space. Pessoa's Master Mind seems to be asking " Are we all thinking Big Thoughts and Big Dreams?" Because as far as he is concerned,Antonio Pessoa will not simple decides to do it. HE WILL DO IT! Antonio Pessoa's Master Mind is that sort of painting that makes inevitably History. Not necessarily because of its visual results and special effects,not only,but most importantly for its great amount of meaning,as a unique solid symbol in the life of the artist and consequently with all the probabilities and infinite possibilities of becoming a long lasting reputable artwork,precisely for its meaningful content which gave the artist the right momentum and specifically the right reputation to actually create it. Pessoa is here thereby determined to express the Expertise Power and Personal Power,available for all of us,only quality thought can provide and that can only be accomplished through the process of having absolute control upon our Mind,therefore absolute control upon our Life,action and destiny. Antonio Pessoa,once again,goes the extra step,the extra one thousand miles to achieve one of the most daring and difficult challenges one can possibly face and take. Become the Master of Life! The time has come for the artist to command and leverage the ultimate power.Mind Power! The way to move forward is to move forward.That is how Pessoa charted this fascinating course,started sailing and now is taking in all the wonders that lie ahead. With both eyes focused on what is before him,he now can effortlessly make sound decisions and take meaningful steps toward achieving even his wildest dreams. Antonio Pessoa,his friends,partners and his Team. All the past is just History. As the trees release their summer foliage in preparation for the months ahead,the artist of Master Mind,reflects upon the value of letting go. Antonio Pessoa sets his sites on what lies ahead and move toward it with confidence,art,imagination,persistance,sharing spirit and conviction. Having become a true specialist in behavioral change,the young man brings the sophisticated understanding of Mind Power to Art and Public and to the whole World!

 

 

 

 

Once again,I fly from Canary Islands to spend the weekend with my favorite living artist and one of my best friends as well.Skip intro,for between the two of us,after all these years and after all these countless moments of mutual excellent conversation,shared bizarre episodes and a few unspeakable adventures,by all means no ceremonial rituals required whatsoever,simply put and absolutely true. He picks me up at the densely populated airport and the silent perfect-mannered chauffeur drives us back to his idyllic castle more popularly known as Antonio Pessoa-Home Studio. A new life in the sun,a new weekend in the relaxing and cosy atmosphere of the spacious living area all the more enchanting by the friendly staff,let alone the artist's awesome and most entertaining recent new line contemporary fine art canvases and watercolors.Wall Art at his unquestionable very,very best,if you ask me. After a dimlit mediterranean food dinner at the balcony overlooking the warm summer night,during which we pleasurably break news and get on with our lives latest episodes and metaphysics updates,we have a Scotch while strolling about Studio 1 as he shows me his on- going canvases,drawings and watercolors,a true dream factory,and sooner than I expected it was 2.a.m. and my obnoxious yawning was already warning me it was just about time to call it a night,so next thing I knew I was between sheets and thereby quickly going into night time oblivion.Delicious!Indeed,I actually have to admit I simply adore this recovering and rewarding total forgetfulness of the great oblivion of sleep.So does the artist,for all I know. I wake up early morning just to witness once again the dynamic full-swing stimulating on-going racing activity all over the place. The telephone keeps ringing,business partners,clients,art collectors,friends,family,art merchants,co- workrts,you name it,from all over the world. Pierre Fontanals and Luis Santiago seem to be successfully handling the situation,as in everything-under-control,with their usual experienced,stree-free and that easy-to-do look on their faces,savoir faire and know-how...while the artist is nowhere to be seen. Well,not quite so,actually.Antonio Pessoa is already painting in his sound proof Studio 1,basically relaxed,happy,however totally focused on the huge canvas before him. Antonio Pessoa always faithful to his traditional studio performance unique style,is working on several paintings at the same time,despite today's main artwork at stake happens to be a gigantic canvas on the skyscraper like easel,seemingly succeeding to be grabbing his full attention and his eagle eye concentration. I light my pipe and silently observe the artist at work for quite a long while,genuinely fascinated by his reputable art action speed,as if he were actually only the art making mediator between Divine Guidance and the canvas. I politely coughed lightly twice before I broke the silence."What's going to be the title of that masterpiece ,my friend?" "Free!" said the Pessoa without even bother to turn around."Free,my dear,just what I wish to be above anything else in the world.Free!" As a matter of fact ,I love to admit,Free,indeed turned out to be one of the most awesome and charming king-sized canvases of the artist's latest contemporary series and definitely one of my favorites ever. Laser focused and maximally productive,the artist all of a sudden takes a break and moves about the studio,gladly aware of my dear friendly presence,brush in his right hand staining here and there on the watercolor papers scattered all over the spacious studio. "I have this feeling,this don't know what something about this weekend",he tells me,thoughtfully contemplating- and I think - seriously evaluating one of those unfinished watercolors,with that peculiar self-criticism look on his diamond-white face. One of his cell phones rings.That's the Home Studio "Special One" cell phone as he ironically titled it.As far as I know it's actually the bad news breaker , the last-minute urgent issues cell phone.What do you know! He picks it up and I hear Pierre Fontanal's voice almost screaming from the other side,meaning,from the "Concepts into Action" headquarters,where everything usually looks as if the Universe is conspiring to make business matters an easy-going task and some other times it looks as if indeed all hell broke loose! That was Maxwell Armstrong from San Francisco,California,absolutely anxious and under pressure and demanding (...demanding!)...to speak directly over the phone with the artist. By now,Antonio Pessoa is painfully back to real-life again,takes a seat,thinks for a while...and I hear him say... "Pierre,please,just tell him I'm out of order" Silence again,while Pessoa listens to what Pierre has got to communicate... "OK,then tell him I won't be back untill next week." He hangs up. He's never going to change,I'm thinking,the artist definitely hates a life full of problems and the best way he knows to get rid of them all once and for all,or at least for a peaceful while,is the same old formula. Get back down to work and once again life is Heaven,just Paradise! With the happy ending of the canvas fast approaching,the artist quickly recovers from the interruption.Obviously the key to full and fair recovery is to get on with what he was doing and that's precisely what he does.Congratulations! There are always unplanned occurences that prevent him from painting just the way he simply adores.Peacefully! Getting caught up in the day to day activities of his team,isn't precisely his idea of indeed getting a kick out of art studio performance. Talking about the devil,the cell phone rings again ( ...at the right time...at the wrong place ...),as the artist gets ready to get back down to work.How convenient! My eavesdropping is supposed,more than basically tolerated,fully accepted,just for the record... "Not again!",he sighs. However,he picks up the phone while looking at me with that funny helplessness expression on his face. Pierre once again screaming from the busy room,just to tell him Maxwell Armstrong wishes to know whether the artist is once and for all decided to deal with him directly or not. "Tell him...well,Pierre,just tell him...Or Not" He hangs up the phone. I must say that in real-life philosophy this is theoretically a definite "Leave me Alone!". One of Antonio Pessoa's most peculiar secrets is that deep down inside- unquestionably - he sure loves this art studio daily ritual,delicious silence,this self-imposed exile...well,in a manner of speaking. What turns out to be his big What and Why,that's for us to know and for you to find out throughout all it's been said and written about the artist's Life and Oeuvre. Strange how this weekend seems to be shorter than I would like to expect,just in the exact proportion to my delight to stay by his side and enjoy the making of all this scattered collection of unfinished canvases,drawings,sketches and impactful watercolors. Whatching him build on the fine art dreams factory always creates me an exciting state of antecipation.Inevitable fact. However,the cell phone is persistent enough and there it is once again ringing and once again inevitably forcing the artist losing steam and probably reminding himself that indeed at last check Paradise will be only possible in a far away tropical exotic island between the Pacific Ocean...and Eternity! So it seems - from what I can make out of my legitimate eavesdropping - Maxwell Armstrong just comes up with a brand-new proposition,fair enough to put a broad smile on the artist's face and probably a helpless curiosity expression on mine. "It's alright then,Pierre,please let him know he can have those six canvases for that price...oh,and by the way,please tell him that next time he calls us four times in a row I won't negotiate..." We have lunch on the balcony,a nice mexican food combination,served hot...and how! One of the benefits of his lifestyle,by all means.Now we concentrate only on the tasty good smelling positive aspects of the mexican cuisine,while wandering about this and that...as a fresh,almost sweet wind breeze starts blowing from the seaside. Just two good friends and Art Connoisseurs making the most out of being together again. Harold MacArthur is in town,so the three of us decide to go for a rejuvenating long walk along the seaside Avenue,it's just a beautiful day,clean cloudless sky,Sprigtime just smells fun,the sea is light blue contrasting with the light-golden-blue sky and it's just wondeful to be here in this idyllic scenery of western world tropical life, as we easily overcome procrastination and stroll further and further away while pondering and review several topics,including the artist's current and upcoming projects. In spite of the inevitable fact that Pessoa is actually more than twenty years younger than we are,he proves systematically to have reached this mature-like unmutable consistency,this inspiring effortless reliability charisma,wherever he is and whatever he does,a remarkable combination of qualities playing an important role in our unique mixture of logical and philosophical reasoning inter-exchanging chemistry. Nothing like a six-kilometer boulevard stroll with such distinguished company,along the clear blue waters,crystaline sand and dazzling coral reefs,the ideal place to take full advantage of excellent conversation focused on interesting issues,including Art. Nevertheless,let's face it.Sir MacArthur current situation seems pretty obvious both for me and for the artist as well.His personal increasing interest in Antonio Pessoa's latest artworks,his definitely his main motivation to pay him a visit from time to time,well...more accurately at least once every month.Define this simply as art collector's persistence would be basically unfair,for I know that apart from his main reasons to fly from London on such a regular basis,roughly twelve times a year,his admiration for the artist is by all means clearly genuine to the point of true growing friendship.That much is transparently in the air. However,the high price of the artist's canvases,namely and very specifically his latest contemporary fine art series,New Era-New Line,if not being precisely beyond his financial reach (definitely not!!!) at least have achieved a global demand effect,feverish enough for a drastic rise in prices,eventually rather unexpectedly and as far as Harold MacArthur is concerned,from his strict point of view,fairly acceptable,on the other hand,painfully unfair. In spite of the inevitable everlasting situation of being systematically "blessed" with new exciting and painfully unexpected challenges,Sir MacArthur is never going to change his faithful sense of personal commitment concerning both his friendship with the artist and his private art collection growing reputation,continuously updated integrity. No big deal,whatsoever.Hard working art collector's self-consciousness.I like that...and so does the artist. Anyway,just as with the tides in the sea,there is an ebb and flow to the tides of Antonio Pessoa's Home Studio leisure weekends. Swimming in the art world,understanding its awesome Universe and eventually,of course,swimming through the sand of bizarre timing and close encounters with unannounced visitors. What all this reminds me of is how great is to have the world in our hands and time by our side. At last check I find myself wondering. Visitors...or Invaders? Miriam Di Rosa! A Lady in the Water!The water of the Art Ocean.Atlantis? It's tea time,in the contemporary Fine Art Shrine! Miriam sits down at the steaming good smelling table with her gentle jet-set complexity although grotesque proportions. She starts by complaining about the weather,then seriously complaining about her love affairs setbacks,then about the art market impractical foolish unpredictable roller coaster unreliable flux and flows,then she goes on complaining about the enough of non-sense world we live in,and at last she complains about all topics in a row,she says she's had it...and by then,surprise,surprise,believe me or not,crazy as it seems,forty five minutes had gone by and tea time was over. Miriam Di Rosa and the artist,they are actually so used to share whatever-you name it together,yet so aware of the intentions of one another,that they don't permit themselves anymore to become ruffled or victimized. Sir MacArthur looks mildly tolerantly patient and me,well,I fortunately have reached that level of after-walk,after-tea.who-cares,accomplished calmness. Tea time is over and Antonio Pessoa looks bored,slightly standoffish,I suppose a bit tired.Miriam somehow always succeeds to set this mood paradigm shifting in the artist emotional mechanism.He accepts her exactly how she is and she remains in his life playing the important role of art critic,art curator,although systematically,hopelessly expecting to keep the artist image strangely tuned in what he was six years ago...still illuminated by the pure oil smelling Romantic Period's Modern Art bulb. On the whole,Miriam Di Rosa regards Pessoa's contemporary series as a road-map to something which hasn't yet been achieved and I think she secretly believes it never will. I understand her feelings(let alone her old fashionad artistic concepts ) however,by all means I don't subscribe her point of view. Pessoa in my opinion is actually going through his fine art very,very best up to now,and that's the general public perspective,except for Miriam who still has this secret hopeless hope to re- convert the artist to the old models of Modern Art.Too late,if you ask me. Pessoa wastes no time climbing back aboard the now urgent loneliness of his studio,while the fictional Lady Miriam keeps me company as we sadly watch him go,leaving us behind...and he's gone. After a long silent while Miriam Di Rosa stands up and gets ready to go. I light my pipe as I hear her say "It's not all,isn't it?Antonio doesn't need my company nor my advice anymore.Enough Genius IQ,I suppose." I say nothing.I know exactly what's going on between the two of them,and I also know it's none of my business...well,at least while she is around. "If he's aiming for Genius IQ Perfection that's his problem." she goes on as she walks towards the door."But my previous experience tells me he was a much better artist,before.Anyway,the great Antonio Pessoa will never be successful if he sticks to this contemporary abstract non-sense.That much I can tell you.He's just trying to be a little innovative but definitely losing the Great Master's touch.It's a shame,really,it's a shame,but there's nothing much I can possibly do about this weird situation.Anyway,guys,take care,all of you.I'll be in touch...I think.Goodbye." She closes the door behind her.And she's gone! Under my circumstances I kept on smoking my pipe,while recognizing she couldn't have been more mistaken. If to much art studio action can be at times responsible for making the artist's mind dense,it's also true the his controversial relationship with Miriam - always on the verge of actually going down the drain ( which miraculously never seems to happen )- hasn't helped much to improve his mood after our tea time nail-bitting session. So after sunset,Jasper drives us to the Meditation Center,nº39.The ultimate shrine for total peace of mind,discernment and relaxation. The most valuable thing you can learn about Meditation multiple benefits is that it indeed shapes your character,provides you with a rewarding inner-self awareness and asures you this happy and healthy well-being,the great foundation that enables you to wake up every single day ready and steady to get up and literally go fot it,whatever that might happens to turn out to be,particularly concerning Antonio Pessoa's challenging life,a great powerful mindset and a solid self-centered unbreakable motivation,more than enough to overcome professional obstacles and general serious commitments. It's imperative by now to understand how these systematic meditation sessions and rituals have contributed immensely for the artist's amazing personal growth and his latest increasing artistic performance success. The power of balance,minimizing all external and internal clutter,recalibrating the artist and assess his direction regularly,implementing higher love principles,clearing out inconsistent behaviors that may eventually push him off track,discerning when it is appropriate to let go or move forward,making honoring his truth in art expression his top priority,honoring and encouraging his continual growth and learning,setting a clear and focused intent so he can share it and follow through to completion,and discovering how to strengthen his character and soul so they can't be bought nor manipulated. Antonio Pessoa has embraced these commandments at Bala Mani's Meditation Center,and since then,he has been teached and coached surrounded himself with Masters of the Mind he believes and trusts,and consequently adopting naturally and gradually a surprising new line attitude,actually the key element that has been a positive and successful step towards his current genius efficiency not only in art performance but in his personal,social and professional life,with remarkable results so far,providing him with the inevitable super easy going skills and know-how to get out and play to win. Pessoa's weelky sessions at the Meditation Center have been setting his mind to face and overcome all professional obstacles plus providing him with a remarkable Know-How and easy- to-doingness when it comes to make the most of his multiple projects,challenges and dreams,let alone his highly effective art performance. The Age of Aquarius has given us the great possibilities of Quantum Physics. There is an infinite universe of intelligent and highly creative energy where the artist pulls out the Quantum Ocean,enabling him to continuously accomplish with little time and effort,his personal lifestyle concept,artistic projects and professional commitments. As an art collector,art critic,art coach and counselor,supporting and reviewing Antonio Pessoa's Life and Work,has proven to be probably the most exciting experience of my seventy-two years of multiple interesting projects all over the world so far. Thereby,as a matter of fact it's rather rewarding just to witness how the artist has actually increased his artistic performance to such an extent of quality,visual impact providing art lovers with a substantial new contemporary literacy,furthermore making it possible for a huge amount of public realize the full potential of his Oeuvre and very particularly of his innovative capacity. Systematically exposing himself to exciting new ideas and perspectives,Antonio Pessoa,with a relevant help from his impressive mindset proceeds with the right attitude,progresses into the future on a full determined one million-steps- forward journey,with the energy,feel,style and proficient imagination,plus his absolute clear purpose serving him and all his collaborators in all important specific areas,possible and "impossible" ways. Back home,we spend the rest of the evening just the two of us,listening to soft music and relaxing at the balcony,emotionally at ease and enjoying the spendid warm night atmosphere and the ongoing cheerful crowd celebrating life down at the charming square. We have dinner,confidently sharing our viewpoints over so many interesting subjects and next thing we know,the square is empty,it's 1 a.m. and we call it a night. Saturday morning,I woke up before the house got really busy,so after having breakfast delivered by Arturo and his wife,consisting in a cross-between mediterranean food and english ham and eggs,I took a stroll along the seaside avenue,not too long a walk,just enough to stretch my legs and let the blood quicly flow into my grey cells as the bright sun rays provided me with enough energy for the rest of the day. When I got back to the artist's Home Studio it seemed as if all hell broke loose. James Babel was once again feeling pretty lousy over David Medina and his usual dread failures. Life basic essentials teach you different ways to look at life.In this specific area,mine and Antonio Pessoa's traditional detachment was indeed being used to our great advantage. As everybody seemed just about to start crawling up the walls,only Pierre Fontanals,the artist and myself,seemed to remain cool,calm and collaborating aiming at finding a snappy solution for what seemed to be the financial crash of the century. Twenty minutes later we all went out for lunch.An early,struggling and out loud speaking nerve-shattering lunch.Bad news is we had Pietro Fabricci to join the club...he and his humorless sense of humor. The artist and the sophisticated and versatile Pierre Fontanals might see him as a smarty-arty sort of clown,or should I say,multifaced juggler clown...never mind... The circus entertainer was after all James Babel and his out of breath manifestation of blame on the guilty one,David Medina for having sold nine valuable masterpieces for a substantial incorrectly measured price. Eating at random and struggling to get his message across,James Babel was losing his self- made man public relations strategy as Antonio Pessoa was getting seriously bored and so was I,just for the record and for all that matters. We left the restaurant in a quite remarkable polite hurry and made our way back home,fortunately quickly recovering from the embarassing sort of everything-you-need-to-know about how to throw a lousy lunch party. Pessoa once again looks slightly bored,moody blue. I suppose so many types of people around him quite often actually succeed to take his concentration away,or at least to a less effective level in which he inevitably can't help feeling awkward enough to continuously avoid situations that might turn out to interfere negatively with his deliciously silent philosophical universe. Very far from being some corny sort of ethereal spiritual mumbo-jumbo,Antonio Pessoa's lifestyle is definitely based upon a practical wisdom and vision of emotional abundance,aiming at making his art performance,private and social life,professional commitments,flourish,grow and expand. Thereby,no wonder his Studio 1's celestial peace is for the artist his ultimate heaven,favorite playground and his divine castle where all ghostly apparitions dissolve and melt away making way for spiritual lightness and proficient creativeness. The artist has become more and more conscious,concerned and aware that what he expects to happen in his art studio - specifically when it comes to excel in art expression is determined by the thoughts he dwells upon plus the intensity of the emotions behind those thoughts. Systematically using imagery to create innovative contemporary art patterns he knows how to give himself the freedom to reach for the stars of supreme awareness (inspiration!),one idea leads to another,and the momentum he generates with these mind tools,one thousand and one visions and beyond,will begin a magical fast shift in his creative power so is art performance becomes a passionate flow of emotions where he finds himself mastering the process of being the ultimate mediator between the reality circus and visual poetry.Art! The mystery about the current amazing chemistry between Antonio Pessoa and Boris Dainville is after all very clear,so it's no mystery al last check whatsoever. They are both emotionally concentrated on the power of all forms of Art,including human relations. They hop on the strong rules of spiritual energy,learning together how to prioritize the great Truth known to all mystics and ancient sages. What they mean to each other,more than sympathetic resonance,is an absolute like attracts like effortless harmony,sharing the same life approach in which basically the only possible option is to be and feel absolutely alive. So this Saturday,once again,they keep in touch over the phone,as the artist goes on working on several canvases and watercolors at the same time and I keep him company as I sit quietly reading,taking notes or simply watching him suggest awesome visual propositions with every painting brush stroke as time goes slowly and pleasurably by in Studio 1 and as the sun beams keep coming in anticipating yet another delicious warm subtropical night. Once again we're having dinner at the comfy balcony.Antonio Pessoa looks relaxed now,however thoughtful,sharing the silence with me,plenty aware that I,more than anyone else in the world,can make out the essence of his pondering,even in the silence,or when we talk exchanging ideas,projects,secrets,concepts,dreams,you name it,I'm able to read the underlines,able to accurately interpret the inner-areas of the artist's intimate reflections and thereby succeed to come up with a rather clear picture of his current perspective of the whole field of life,world,art...and beyond. He is a complex,informed,wise distinguished man.He has embraced the whole creative process,art studio,lifestyle and beyond.This is the big one,and this is the main reason why I've been reviewing his Life and Work for the past ten years up to now. Some of Antonio Pessoa's top qualities are definitely his increasing capacity to keep his mind on task,it actually gets easier and easier for the artist to become fully focused on what's more important,beginning with his art studio daily action,indeed a creative ritual which has become a pleasurable and inevitable part of his life.Also using his subconscious to accept that what he desires is possible to achieve,even his wildest dreams,keeps him steady on the right track and mastering the art of being ready when the magic happens,like something he will most certainly will enjoy,even when it comes in the most unexpected ways.Pessoa handles this emotion- charged feelings aiming at expand his multiple issues and areas,an ever growing display of fascinating projects,leading him to reach higher levels of living the ultimate Life Supreme! After dinner we move back to the studio,where Scotch is served in cognac snifters by the silent- polite Arturo.He leaves us alone as the phone rings announcing an incoming call fromm Felix Nuñez. Felix Nuñez is taking care of the artist's affairs in San Francisco,CA, and he has been doing it for over two years already,now.From the five minutes conversation I can figure out Nuñez has successfully added three more reputable art collectors to the artist's U.S.A. crème de la crème clients list.Fair enough.Pessoa hangs up the phone with a broad smile of satisfaction on his face. "This young man is just about to hit the big time,Jacob,and so are we"he says. "You are,not me" I say "I'm just an innocent bystander.But I like it!Are you hearing me complaining?" We're laughing out loud,now...making a toast to good health. The Art World! Bigger names have come and gone,but few careers in contemporary fine art have been more consistently interesting over the last ten years than Antonio Pessoa's.Painstakingly careful and accurate the artist goes on this Saturday after midnight exhaustively staining here and there,living up to his art studio wizard reputation. His latest paintings are just amazing,passionate and so chromatically beautiful and at the same time deliciously absurd in their successful attemp to reproduce the artist's serious sensory experiences. Saturday's featured artist,takes the midnight express absolutely motivated and comfy in the spacious comfort of Studio 1.Into art action now completely,his burning fire seems to go higher and higher,and once again I feel helplessly inspired as I watch him dancing about the awesome scenario,mainly furnished by huge easels,gigantic and medium size canvases,oak tables covered with an apparent chaotic display of finished and unfinished watercolors,drawings,collages,mixed medias and small sketches here and there and everywhere. There's a beautiful abstract acrylic on watercolor paper on a chair I hadn't noticed the day before.I ask him where did it come from.The artist tells me he started doing it yesterday,and that's where he was actually writing this wonderful weekend poetry.What poetry,I just asked,not because I didn't know what he was talking about,I did,but just to get my private kick,well,mainly to make conversation. "Momentum takes over " he says "It's easy enough to dream and plan big projects,but when it comes to see a particular weekend measurable progress,nothing like a watercolor to draw the whole map.It's like an episode.That's what it's meant to be.The Weekend Report!" So that was it,I thought.Antonio Pessoa's intention generator was on once again,with the rushed busy flow of his eclectic style,the artist's ever present amazing capacity to see artistic challenges as supreme opportunities working toward innovative ideas,as he goes on and on staining here and there filled with passion,creative fire and almost childish excitement. Suddenly he stops and looks at me as taken by surprise,slightly puzzled and definitely amused. "I don't know why I bother to go on painting,it's almost 2 a.m.,you must be tired and I'm keeping you here,Jacob.We should be going to bed and call it a night." "Let your inner light shine,my friend,go on with what you were doing and please do not worry about me.I'm quite alright and very entertained if you ask me." The artist shrugged and said. "Just a few minutes more and then we'll have another scotch on the balcony." I watch him as he gets back down to work. Antonio Pessoa's amazing power of persistence,I thought,that's the real secret for his artistic success.It's always been as far as I can recall.And it was indeed 2 a.m. by then. As soon as I discovered it was already 11:30 a.m.,I jumped out of bed,simultaneously recasting my priorities,such as a good cold shower and a late breakfast delivered by a silent Jasper at the spacious kitchen,all part of a process of treating me like a special honor guest. After taking a look a the ongoing situation in the artist's Home Studio as I watched my energy level raise up by witnessing the energetically vibrating excitement of everyone's pleasurable working flux and flow,every step I take toward Antonio Pessoa's contemporary Fine Art shrine,Studio 1,the clearer it became that he had company this morning.As I got closer to the door,I knew the artist was facing a new challenge today.Listening patiently to Boris Dainville's latest episodes. I let myself in and after taking a sit and picking up my notepad,I had to face the fact that Boris Dainville had just been through yet another love affair setback with a strange woman from Dublin who at last check proved to be a tough pill to swallow for the millionaire and enthusiastic art collector's delicate emotional attachment,another overwhelming failure to join his rich content love affairs diary. Now that I come to think of it I have to admit The Beatles were right when they came up with "Can't buy me Love" song. No matter the stage of art performance Antonio Pessoa finds himself in,he can't help run through a whole fully concentrated working day,without being almost systematically interrupted by unexpected visitors out of his endless list of unique soul mates. Although this list seems to be the list of an artist with a pretty wide and diverse social life,unquestionable fact,the pros and cons of this circumstance after all very often provides him with a rather awkward momentum,sometimes in the form of a focus saboteur,when art action remains stuck,eventually totally inactive,while these overwhelming unexpected last minute visitors,may prove to be long lasting gossip overloaded whimperish meetings,classified information sessions,where his best and closest friends,as bizarre as it may sound,come to his Studio and to his arms seeking wise advice on multiple emotional subjects,soul mates who at a certain point of their lives seem to know little or nothing about how to handle a specific situation,particularly concerning matters of the flesh,of course. Although I know and have to admit that running away from this almost daily inevitable scenario may be Pessoa's first instinct,somehow he ethically finds it more beneficial to meet it head-on,taking a different approach to every different situation.A valuable exercise! The artist's good listener magic is thereby created from being a giving person who gives to giving people,such as Boris Dainville. The day goes by as the three of us continue the communicating process,through lunch,another art session time,tea time,a sunset walk along the boulevard and by dinner time we were basically emotionally exhausted,literally almost passing out on the dining room floor,a simple way to put down in words how Boris Dainville's love affairs setbacks can turn out to become a totally thumbs down negative feelings network. Anyway,just before midnight the lover boy goes away for good after seven seasons with the saints,leaving us alone in a sea of sighs in the ultimate effort to pull ourselves together,having the last one for the road double Scotch on the rocks at the exotic balcony overlooking the stunning bay.Some Sunday! I woke up monday morning to join the temper- based complaints of Miriam Di Rosa at the steaming breakfast fancy round table. Contrary to what she seems decided to believe,the artist is not bound for getting easily trapped on her nightmarish reality,nor is he willing to be mistakenly dropped off on her outmoded planet. "Why isn't your Art the way it should be?Just the way it used to be?" She complains as Antonio Pessoa copes as best as possible with her sadness,with his traditional well-being,tolerance and joy- even detachment- as a pure realization that after all her opinion matters,in spite of her stubborn unwillingness to take the ultimate step and expand her vision into the larger and far more innovative world of contemporary art. This hard to deal conversation goes on for about one hour,while Miriam's unsuccessful attempts to overcome her hidden desperation became more and more obvious till the moment the artist and I get up and leave the kitchen,however no fast enough to miss her last disappointed remark. "If you don't change your artistic style I don't know what I will do!" That's the high price for artistic freedom. I watch his amazing latest artworks as we once again enter Studio 1.This room has become his holy retreat,his world,his destiny. There was only one particular mixed media on watercolor paper which had been puzzling me throughout the whole weekend. "One last thing...why don't you have it finished yet?"I asked the artist. "Well...I suppose I'll do it tonight,my friend...this one is a special combination of our latest interesting events...including yourself"He smiled.A naughty smile. "What do you actually have in mind?" I asked as I came closer to the unfinished artwork. "Because this one is The Weekend Report". Jasper took me to the airport after lunch.While we zipped along the highway,suddenly I got the whole picture. After all that has been his secret all the way during these days. The ultimate relationship between real life and artistic interpretation. The Weekend Report !

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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 language 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!