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Antonio Pessoa - NET SURFER ART REVIEWS
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Sat, 19 Jan 2008
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Antonio Pessoa
Art Metaphors
Art Metaphors,collage and mixed media on
canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,apart from its
delicious visual impact,is a result of a
systematic research across the art scene
worldwide universe,with a great help from his two
collaborators,Luis Santiago and Pierre
Fontanals,two updated art experts and two
excellent art critics as well. Since 2003,Pessoa
by then already living in Barcelona,becomes more
and more interested and consequently familiarized
not only with the current on-going art events but
also with the so called modern masters and very
particularly with the contemporary top artists
plus the most dynamic art galleries mainly in
Europe and United States. From then on the artist
gradually deletes the old influences,namely the
overloaded figurative items of the past waya from
his canvases and watercolors landing in the 2005
New Era field with a totally contemporary
abstract new line. Despite the well know fact
pure abstract fine art has always been punctually
present throughout the nineties,onlu in the
twenty first century comes the time when he at
last broke up with the explicit human
representations for good,becoming a symbol of
advanced contemporary art status and identity by
creating a new visual arts body of new idewas,an
interesting and well expressed studio cooking
where logical conjunctio has been skillfully
overtaken by a strongly communicative art
projection style. Antonio Pessoa's successful
puzzling recent artworks leave no doubt of the
exciting art language switch opening new windows
overlooking bright colorful fields of spacious a
light new possibilities of contemporary fine art.
Wassily Kandinsky's abstract sensorial
magnificence and invention richness has always
been Antonio Pessoa's strongest reference and
influence concerning linear abstract art lyricism
ever. Paintings such as Improvisation 31 ( Sea
Battle) from 1913,Black Spot,Yellow-Red-Blue,oil
on canvas from 1925,shown at the Musée National
D'Art Moderne,Centre Pompidou,Paris;Painting with
White Border now belonging to the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Founding Collection,among many others
masterpieces by the russian painter,had a great
impact on Pessoa's early abstract first
experiences helping him realize that supreme art
expression doesn't necessarily need to be
represented by figurative human or specific
object sources in order to establish a profound
perspective on communication and meaning in the
pursuit of the ability to reach the viewer's deep
understanding of the artist's linguistic.
Therefore it seems only natural that it doesn't
take too long before Antonio Pessoa fully accepts
and consequently adopts Wassily Kandinsky as the
undeniable abstractionism pioneer of modern art
and his most reliable model of non- objective
compositions of the twentieth century's global
art scene. Pessoa in his determined desire to
convey emotional or expressive feelings and ideas
without reliance upon or reference to reconizable
objective forms already existing in reality,goes
on throughout the years maintaining this
unbreakable faithful connection with other
abstract modern masters such as Richard
Anuszkiewicz-one of the founders and foremost
exponents of Op Art-Joan Miró's optical
changes,motion configurations and high-intensive
colors,the portuguese Paris-based Vieira da
Silva,Peters Graham and at last but not the
least,of course,Jackson Pollock. Although
theoretically Antonio Pessoa's Romantic Period
was over and out for good in the year 2002,during
the next two years,2003- 2004,already settled in
Barcelona,according to accurate facts the artist
keeps on reporting the same aesthetic content
both in his artworks on canvas and watercolors.
Basically only in the year 2005 he definitely
breaks up with the old traditional fine art
standardized patterns,something now regarded as a
perceptual last conclusion of his past studio
performance and the stand by period of
reflection,a calm lengthy intent consideration
time where propagating beams and rays of a new
wave of art vision began to surpass and out do
the old art expression concepts,thereby making
way for an amazing new line of progressive
contemporary fine art excelling in
colors,motion,visual impact and communication.
Therefore,throughout this aesthetics concept
switch process,Antonio Pessoa's favorites
proceeds in a circle of pure abstract
artists,both the great modern masters pioneers
and the latest contemporary avant-garde. The
meaningful whole according to Pessoa's new
perspective of what art vision today must be
leads him to a determinant continuous judgment
and evaluation concerning a widescreen of the on-
going variety of creative talents,living entity
parallels within his now prototyping selection
suggesting the future of contemporary fine art.
Antonio Pessoa and his closest collaborators and
assistants approach art galleries with growing
curiosity learning on a daily basis with genuine
transparency the outs and abouts of current
abstract art patterns totally disconnecting from
the old figurative symbols and entirely
integrated within the colorful screen which
embody the latest parameters of contemporary
visual arts. One of these graphic significant
examples is Galerie Beeldkracht represented
artist Koos Smit colorful wilderness fine art
excursions,a perfect inspiration for Pessoa's
general perception of his artworks new line.Koos
Smit comes up as an excellent source providing
multiple ideas and possibilities,a well placed
bookmark in his favorites directory. Also
represented by Galerie Beeldkracht,Vania
Pentcheva's dynamics and shapes in our
environment oriented artworks,grabbed Antonio
Pessoa's attention at first sight,raising his
excitement level to the point of considering
immediately Vania Pentcheva's artworks as a
contemporary fine art first rate nominee and a
good magic fuel for him and for all the nowadays
worldwide art scene young talents. Pierre
Fontanals gives me a ring before Christmas on
behalf of Antonio Pessoa asking me to take a look
at the Alphan Gallery home page and check these
artists out. Chris Burnside and Jennifer Burbank.
From his words I immediately knew Pessoa had
discovered another artist of his fancies. Next
day I entered Alphan Gallery's website and there
he was,Chris Burnside amazing juxtapositions
taking little flights in a unique pleasant dreamy
way. I understood right away why Antonio Pessoa
was so enthusiastic about this one. The short but
quality collections of Alphan Gallery also
presenting Jennifer Burbank,were widely obvious
to indeed had become part of Pessoa's preferences
and I should be safe in saying particularly Chris
Burnside had that kind of magic in his artistic
speech Antonio Pessoa simply adores,for his
current art concept had long become for me as
clear as a cloudless sky. Pessoa after dipping
his toe in the colorful pool of contemporary
abstract fine art actually adopted a pleasing way
of making solid sure there is no way back.
Antonio Pessoa's paradigmatic view of a new
reality,much more than a purely theoretical level
of a New Era of contemporary art
expression,forces us to admit a prevailing new
ideology of artistic and emotional answers,a
meaningful consensual dialog between science and
creativity.This means that he has developed a
live vision of a new world of effortless
communication through fine art,now beyond the
limitations of figurative art by entering a
totally empirical interpretation of reality
through abstract constructivism splitting his
fantasy between an impressive collection of
references,preferences and multiple influences.
ART METAPHORS shows us a perfect interior world
where the importance of art as a powerful
communication tool,provides infinite
possibilities by establishing an intimate
relationship between the artist and the worldwide
public. Moreover,Antonio Pessoa's art of
traveling across many of the emerging
contemporary artists concepts illustrates an
image of a remarkable interaction,a genuine
interest in what's goin on,a sharing good natured
open-minded commitment to other artists talent
and work!
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