Antonio Pessoa ~~ l'enfant terrible

If the artist of the New Era is by now a cool grown up adult,a true experienced life's vet,tasting the privilege of a childish emotional intelligence totally under control,leading a life style unique,a poet enjoying the material world although managing to maintain a daily relationship with the silence and the universe,evaluating the pros and cons of all the metaphysical forces and reasoning,a man with a mission,an abstract mission just like all those who never take nihilism as a doctrine neither concise definition in order to establish a fake meaning to their lives...
...Antonio Pessoa back in his teens was already a blossoming artist although not just yet able to remain quite enough to turn his ideas and fantasies into responsible artwork.
Restlessly wandering all over Europe,the teenager was probably thinking he was living the time of his life and furthermore with God by his side.From London to Greece,from Ibiza to Amsterdam,from Paris to Berlin and even experiencing daring adventures of the One Thousand and One Nights kind along the sands of Morocco,the young boy without even knowing was already digesting the absorbing absurd,already coexisting with the macrocosmic concept of reality.
Antonio Pessoa at the age of fifteen drops high-school to learn music and at the age of eighteen moves first over to London and then to Amsterdam where he settles down his headquarters for several years.
In this stimulating city of Nederlands the young man becomes involved with many experienced dutch artists participating at the same time in many art workshops already establishing the validity of an outstanding talent and a unique style of spontaneous art expression.
Unfortunately his love adventures somehow get him out of the track,taking him to long seasons of absolute idyllic procrastination although in so doing the young artist develops the remote areas of human relations and human basic natural instincts,embracing it as his new perception of reality and self-discovery.
Ten years were still ahead before Antonio Pessoa actually becomes a devoted professional artist for good.


Jacob Kotsky