zondag, maart 25, 2007

VIGO CITY - El album Blanco y Negro 1997 - 1998 - Antonio Pessoa


Antonio Pessoa - VIGO CITY

El album Blanco y Negro . 1997-1998


Si la Época Romántica de Antonio Pessoa,(1997 - 2002) , una colección
monumental de más de 1200 oleos sobre lienzo,de pura inspiración gallega y con el sello inconfundíble de las primeras vanguardias del síglo XX,como Matisse,Braque,Picasso y Marc Chagall...
Si la Nueva Era ( 2006 - 2007 ) de Antonio Pessoa ha tenído un efecto
devastadoramente impactante y hasta morboso tanto entre los coleccionístas de arte como en el exigente critério de la pretigiosa nueva generación de críticos;por su color,formas eclécticas,su calíbre de expresión plástica,
más que simplemente contemporáneo,visualmente inoxidable,dotada de un original malabarismo extremadamente cromático,agradablemente chillón,minimalista y sabiamente saturada a la vez...

...la fantástica colección de dibujos del album Blanco y Negro (1997 - 1998 ),producída en Vígo,publicada en Tuy y ahora mísmo conocída,consagrada y aplaudida internacionalmente;es muy probablemente la más atrevída,original y erudíta Época del artísta.
Aunque tan solo hayan sído publicados en catálogo 300 dibujos,la verdad es que más de 1000 obras de hecho hacen el todo de esta colección enciclopedica,la cual al parecer promete volverse muy pronto una Época Historica de la vida y Obra de Antonio Pessoa,obviamente por distintas razones que si vamos a ver y si nos asomamos al tema con la debída lectura,detenidamente y despacio, pueden ser su polifacética
temática,desde el erotísmo camuflado pero a flor de piel,pasando por el retrato neo-surrealista desfragmentado y analítico,hasta los juegos caricaturístas de clara controversa naturaleza de estílo y contenído.
Supongo que no hace falta referir la técnica de alta precisión,las sorprendentes cualidades de excelente dibujante de Antonio Pessoa,las cuales han hecho que esta colección haya resultado una saga llena de episodios de inspiración melodramática,visión quimerica y rapsodia fantasísta.
De rara belleza estética,madurez técnica,soltura frenética y inspiración gallega,la colección Blanco y Negro de Antonio Pessoa, muy probablemente será cada vez más un marco y un fenómeno de la vida y Obra del artísta digno de estudio académico-erudito a nivel internacional y seguramente,según las previsiones de muchos expertos,una plataforma de imprescindíble referencia del Arte Moderno Universal...
...quizás solo comparable a la Época Azul de Pablo Picasso.

Pierre Fontanals

maandag, maart 12, 2007

Chicago,2004 - Den Haag , Holland Art Fair,2006


From Chicago,2004 to Den Haag,2006
since the two Chicago art shows,2004 till Den Haag's Holland Art Fair,2006
artist Antonio Pessoa has been exhibiting his Romantic Period artworks mainly in fancy five stars hotels in France,Spain and Portugal.
one of the main reasons for this choice, is-as far as we know - the artist's clear reluctance to commit himself to the eventual whims of any art gallery...unless the deal at stake fits his very personal idea of how his project plus the general progression of his professional life must be managed,handled and obviously promoted.
a difficult sort of artist,this lad named Antonio Pessoa...or should I say,
Sir Antonio Pessoa????
the strangest artist on Earth...one could claim and complain.
keep on kicking about,friends,make a formal accusation...he couldn't care less,believe me!
while most of the artists struggle to get through the crowd...so very often in the endless breathtaking attept to achieve something...
...Sir Antonio Pessoa seems to have writen on his face "THE HARDER THE CONFLICT THE MORE GLORIOUS THE TRIUMPH!!"
what do you know!!!
if it happens you're thinking he's kind of weird,playing the bloody waiting game...having a stormy burst of laughter out of his waggish behavior,you're stiff wrong.´
...Sir Antonio Pessoa,the great communicator but also the great pain in the ass...is no perverted nor a snobbish jerk,not that,never,definitely not.
on the contrary the artist is a sharp first rate professional who knows exactly what he wants,(his way!!!)...how he wants it and where he wishes to go.
...and a fair good investment...that's the final conclusion many art collectors are jumping to these days...!

Anneke Frenken

Antonio Pessoa in ...the global warming Land


Antonio Pessoa in...the global warming Land
the big question remains without answer for the time being!
is Antonio Pessoa going to give in...give it all up...or make it just the way he wants to?
´that seems to be depending on the...Gods!
Nevertheless the show must go on,because...and so it seems,the artist's
straight forwardness keeps on burning,steaming and rolling!
Springtime is coming,thanks to the global warming!
And as the temperature rises and in so doing tempering the artist's temper...Antonio Pessoa borns again after a short cold winter,ready for whatever his priorities are.A man's got to do what a man's got to do.
Antonio Pessoa the-Lyon -Heart very,very probably once again is about to get up and stand for his controversial reputation.The odd reputation of the Mystery Man...maybe?!
While the nasty bad guys on the lookout expect him to jump off a cliff for good...or something...the good souls pray and hope the future shall bring Antonio Pessoa all the best,best as best can be.
this sure is no greasy kid's stuff,folks!
it's rather a nail-biting thriller...with no guns so far...but providing everyone with enough suspense to make us keep the eyes open...just in case!!!
to be or not to be continued,this script for the time being sure promises a whole lot of new adventures,awkward situations,a hard to deal art dealers to face,stinky and sticky news and sometimes a bit of embarrassment for the ones who work with him...
...and if everything goes well maybe an happy ending...who knows?
I would guess...
the great performance is yet to come!!!!!

Anneke Frenken

maandag, oktober 16, 2006

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

zaterdag, september 02, 2006

the team - Antonio Pessoa 2006 ( mixed media )

Antonio Pessoa - - the contemporary Art wizard

Contemporary Art reviewing requires a daily basis continuous information research.The endless amount of Art galleries and artists increases the difficult task of being more or less up dated and able to have a reasonable general idea,realistic enough to make sense.
In this universe of tendencies one might consider the ultimate possibility of going backwards and sit on the comfortable upholstered chair of the twentieth century Great Masters,such as Francis Bacon,Andy Warhol,Jackson Pollock,Botero,Kandinsky and Picasso.
Nevertheless,new contemporary Art after all provides me with many positive aspects of legitimate artistic expression,such as Antonio Pessoa.
Antonio Pessoa's remarkable talent is very probably one of the most reliable references of contemporary Art.
Totally devoted to his unmutable belief,he naturally manages to keep away of the struggling crowd,being effortlessly admited in the major highest elitist Art circles while his art works get a high rank circulation status of the classic phenomenon in this particular case leading to be part of the new century's Art History.
Despite the good and the bad critics,Antonio Pessoa keeps on the right track simply by following the nature of his belief,taming the monsters with a brave artist's attitude,by simply listening but not too much,apparently immune to the competion's friction,paging the inner mother of invention,and slow and gently printing it on canvas with the amazing mastery of the Old Masters and the easy going charming incantation uniqueness of an experienced contemporary Art wizard.



Jacob Kotsky

situations - Antonio Pessoa 2006 ( mixed media )

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ANTONIO PESSOA's Best of


Probably talking about Antonio Pessoa's best of is talking about his whole career,for it seems quite obvious that for the past 17 years this artist has no doubt proved
to be a prodigious master of contemporary art.
From 1995 to 2006 he went through amazing changes,always surprising the public in every art show,restlessly keeping on pursuing new formulas of art expression and improving at light speed with the dedication and concentration of someone who doesn't look back,with the self-stimulus of an artist who knows where he's going to and knows he's going to make it.
Antonio Pessoa might change his style here and then but one thing is for sure,he never changes the positive thinking,the straightforward attitude.
Therefore one comment seems to be enough.

Antonio Pessoa is always doing his Best of !



Marc Gilot

no reply - Antonio Pessoa 2006 ( mixed media )

ANTONIO PESSOA ~~ The Visual World


The same might be said of his conceptual colors.Here is the jungle,the savannah,the sea or the cosmos,resplendent with colors and shapes,Art in its primal abundance,and sometimes at first we see only chaos,the anarchy of the wild.Look again,however,and a new order begins to emerge,as things that had been hidden from us at first viewing soon begin to reveal themselves.

And again,Antonio Pessoa uses color itself as a foil for his own whimsical investigations into the complex forms that underline the visual world around us.
In so doing,he poses a certain questions: how do the eye and mind interpret what we see,and how does human expression relate to colors own expression?'
Those are complicated questions,but Antonio Pessoa's approach is both serious and playful.
It all begins with a mark of line,for despite years of traditional Art school training as a painter,the direct calligraphic gesture has been at the root of Antonio Pessoa's creative impulse since childhood.


Gaby Hoffman . New York,NY

focus spot - Antonio Pessoa 2006 ( mixed media )

ANTONIO PESSOA ~~ Art Fits New Era


It's that concern for movement,wich propels his series of NEW ERA abstracts,art works that reflect a sense of motion and energy.

Antonio Pessoa regards these as analogous to music and the workings of an orchestra in the way he suggests rhythm,while color and shadow give melody.Accents highlight crescendo,and the interior spaces offer rest.

For Antonio Pessoa,his Art fits nearly with his belief that we are all part of a totality in wich everything is part of everything else.

Antonio Pessoa believes in the inter connectedness of life.He sees universe as a kind of web in wich all of our lives are part of the larger system,and therefore no one or the other of us is more important ; we are all vital to it.
We are here to evolve,to move towards the unknown in order to elevate our collective consciousness,in the attempt to become more aware of ourselves and our surroundings.



Gaby Hoffman , New York,NY

contemporary plus - Antonio Pessoa 2006 ( mixed media )

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ANTONIO PESSOA - The 21th century Fox


The NEW ERA, Antonio Pessoa 2006 ia a Must,a highly recommendable collection of the artist's latest projects.
It doesn't seem to be pretentious to the point of struggling to show the world something new,whatever that means.

The NEW ERA , Antonio Pessoa 2006,it's a natural effortless display of ideas overflowing in his hiper-creative mind,not only with decorative purposes but essentialy aiming to reach his own perception of emotions through constructive conceptual compositions,pleasant to the eyes and real-genuine to our hearts.

The NEW ERA, Antonio Pessoa 2006 is right now available to anyone who enjoys high quality Art,a collection breaking up with the past but not yet breaking the rules.
For Antonio Pessoa doesn't feel the need to break the rules in order to express himself,he doesn't need to break the rules to gain publicity at all costs.
He leads his life and his work with no need to rush,taking life as it comes and creating on a daily basis as a religious ritual of his own.
Definitely a cool guy in the contemporary Art scene.



Arthur Zimmerman - Salzburg,at

dinsdag, mei 16, 2006

THE VERY BEST OF


Hello my Friend !

The Very Best Of is a selection of what my team and I ,choose as indeed the best of my Art work produced between 1997 and 2004.

You may find in this site several options of Art expression , but to tell you the truth there's an historical and logical connection among all of them art pieces.

I sure hope you'll enjoy it!´

please , feel free to contact me 24 hours a day to this e-mail :

homestudio_antoniopessoa@yahoo.com

Any critics or comments shall be mostly welcome.
I promise your privacy will be and kept more than safe!!!

All your comments and critics will be used for self-improvement wich includes my Art work.

Thank you very much

Antonio Pessoa

zondag, mei 14, 2006

My name is Antonio Pessoa . Welcome and thanks a lot for visiting this blog

The Very Best Of

Thanks everyone of you who are visiting this blog.

I hope and expect deep down from my heart that you'll enjoy it almost as much I've enjoyed hard working in
order to make all these art works come true.

It's defenitely not always easy to make a living out of Fine Arts;nevertheless that's the way I've chosen to lead my life and I don't actually regret a single minute
I've been dedicating to this stimulating trade,for the past seventeen years as a full-time artist.

I love what I do and I do it for all of you,for communication is something I truly and deeply believe in,something I couldn't live without.

Also wish to thank all my friends team who helped me upload this blog in less than 24 hours.That was quite a job,mates!

These art works presented in this blog are indeed a careful selection of what we thought that were my most interesting pieces since 1997 to 2004.
That's why this blog is named "The Very Best of..."

Thank you very much all of you.

yours truly

Antonio Pessoa

Urban neurosis - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on wood )

Twilight zone - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on wood )

The stamp - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on canvas )

The get away - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on wood )

Sunset downtown - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on wood )

Speed limit - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on wood )

Snappy register - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on wood )

Reflections - ANTONIO PESSOA 2004 ( acrylic on wood )