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Antonio Pessoa - NET SURFER ART REVIEWS
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Tue, 11 Mar 2008
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Antonio Pessoa
Portrait
Now What?Antonio Pessoa unpredictable as his
reputation heralds,comes up with a rather
mysterious canvas,somehow suddenly breaking away
from the series of spiritual-oriented artworks he
has been presenting lately. PORTRAIT,acrylic on
canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,stands out of the
artist's latest line of work,with a title and a
touch of art expression reminding his late
nineties oeuvre. Visiting Pessoa's studio in the
first week of November precisely during the
making of PORTRAIT,I asked him as politely as I
possibly could what was going on.The artist sits
in front of me and without any beating about the
bush preambles,tells me he needed urgently to
demystify someone we both knew,searching for
logical evidence and accurate clues in order to
explain through art expression and very
particularly to himself the true nature and deep
motivations of the eccentric character
represented in PORTRAIT,his inherent complex of
attributes plus his restless actions and
reactions. Once identified Portrait's heart and
soul,I'm quite sure the artist from that step on
is having so much fun,now able and available to
play the game,hanging out provided with the third
vision of perception and thereby watching whoever
is behind this abstract painting,articulating his
focus and looking beyond the surface,deep,above
and below,defenitely seeing a whole lot more than
what any viewer eventually shall see
whatever,whoever the image truly manifests and
represents. Once again the superior mirage of the
natural privilege of being an artist gives him
probably the genuine right to keep a whole lot of
secrets for himself,therefore the puzzling
secrecy and identity of Portrait keeps the viewer
asking the same old questions over and over
again,and this premeditated cause and effect
reaction manipulation is the typical modus-
operandi of Antonio Pessoa's harmless playful
moody games,when it comes to use art as his
favorite tool in order to challenge the viewer's
thoughtful and sometimes painful discernment
process about how to actually approach a
purposely ambiguous topic,randomly experiencing
multiple assumptions and considering several
aspects of an apparently faceless
Portrait,particularly in this thrilling situation
in which the artist provides no antidotes
whatsoever for the viewer's ocular interpretation
let alone navigate across the ocean of
speculative exploring,and consequently come up at
least with a dim light at the end of the tunnel
after a meticulous eternity trying to figure out
the artist's intentions,jumping at last to the
twisted-grinning accurate conclusion that the
hidden consistency of Portrait was from the very
beginning meant for the artist to know and for
the viewer to find out. More than a visual
illusion,Portrait's
equivocal,cryptic,enigmatic,"top secret"
possibilities,incorporates key-references,trying
and actually succeeding to provide the viewer
with a superuniverse of infinite research
tools,however in the meantime creating a
mysterious traffic of visual tactics almost
suggesting that the one meant to have been the
inspiring model is pure imagination fiction,that
the true meaning of this painting,maybe...just
maybe,might as well still be under construction.
Basically,all I could really do to help in the
hope to cool the viewer's anxiety or make the
viewer consider the evidence of no evidence at
all,would possibly be to gently say "give it up
and just sit,relax and enjoy it",for after all it
seems to me quite obvious Portrait was indeed
meant to be from the very beginning a conceptual
artistic camouflage. A mystery Portrait,an
artist's secret,revealing absolutely nothing but
another interesting fine art riddle,a brain
teaser double and veiled meaning
composition,meant to puzzle the viewer and
therefore a classified information artistic
enigma never to be solved. Antonio Pessoa's juicy
secret skillfully hidden perhaps behind the
apparent empty spaces of the canvas,as if
answering questions with odd questions,makes
Portrait the traditional "maybe,maybe not" sort
of inscrutable,obscure,even mystical sort of
artistic disappearance,leaving no loose ends and
leaving the anonymous portrayed one forevermore
occult in the mystifying highest level of the
world fine art nameless esoteric models Olympus!
Posted 16:34
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