ANTONIO PESSOA

the Black and White album...

... laughing at the world !


Antonio Pessoa's Black and White album - 1997 / 1998 ,
is definitely an impressing collection of more than 500 drawings ( charcoal on paper ) in wich the artist unquestionably prooves to be not only a technical fantastic automatism sketcher but most important of all,in this specific collection of drawings he clearly establishes once and for all the validity of his feverish talent.One actually has to see it to believe it.One by one,Antonio Pessoa in every drawing he did between 1997 and 1998,without knowing,without being aware of it or at least not being too much concerned about it,was as a matter of fact making History.
The Black and White album stands as a proof of a unique capacity of putting down in magnificent drawings the most hidden primary instincts of human nature.
If not necessarily all of them,certainly most of them enter the dimension of life's absurdity,the ludicrous cynicism of a young artist looking at reality beyond rules or prohibitions,like a cosmic flying dark angel laughing at the world although wise enough to disguise himself as an artist and furthermore caricaturing the uglyness with the camouflage of the beauty and the fine arts excellence.
This impressive collection of drawings,is in my humble opinion one of the best charcoal on paper performances easily matching the skills and expertise of a Leonardo DaVinci,Rembrant or Salvador Dali.
More than maybe,because so it seems,Antonio Pessoa's Black and White album 1997 / 1998 was indeed after all the announcement of what was coming next.And this theory is actually prooving to be true for Antonio Pessoa's NEW ERA is clearly heralding that the show is going on!