Antonio Banderas - Antonio Pessoa 2006 ( mixed media )

Antonio Banderas by Antonio Pessoa

No big news,no big deal,no big story.Just artist Antonio Pessoa tackling one of his favourite subjects ever.Portraits.Also Antonio Banderas one of his favourite Hollywood actors , comes right on schedule for the opening,very probably preceding the next lucky-or unlucky - ones who are foreordained to enter Antonio Pessoa's Portrait Gallery.
Antonio Banderas,so it seems,comes into sight not precisely as a new star but more like a diving divine colorful cartoon,with one eye less but with a lot more mystery than in the motion pictures.
Artist Antonio Pessoa provoking as always,doesn't let us know whether he is caricaturing the actor or enhancing Antonio Bandera's good looks.
So if anyone really wishes to know for sure,take my wise advice,go and ask the artist what was the real intention.Do not worry, for the worst probable possibility is that the portrait's author will promptly generate an ambiguous answer,opening the discussion to two or more interpretations,either intending to mislead you on purpose or crazy as it seems providing you with the mirror of the truth speech for all that matters.
Miscellaneous,an haphazard composition of different kinds of art expressions,Antonio Bandera's portrait by Antonio Pessoa might as well be the beginning of a new series of controversial human "face lifting" disasters or even facial profiling sessions,one way or another not even the art critics seem to know what to say anymore.
For only this time now one thing seems to be pretty obvious.
Antonio Pessoa keeps on doing his own way without even asking permission.
Bye,bye!


Carmen Olaya