Antonio Pessoa - best of
. two mermaids .
Mesmerising the viewers has always been one of Antonio Pessoa's virtues,not only with his natural talent and first rate technical proficiency but very particularly with the great amount of sexual content in his thousands of artworks ,continuously and with unflagging resolve exploring all the possibilities from human hermaphroditism to all sort of situations,from male gay raw homosexuality to soft,gentle tender lesbianism.
"Two Mermaids" from 1999 is one of the best examples how the artist proves once again to be the fine arts wizard which has won him his controversial reputation so far.
The suggestive subtlety of the whole canvas leaves us enough understanding of the fine nuances one can't help enjoying even while speculating over the shades of meaning.
Antonio Pessoa's quality of being difficult and making it difficult to detect or analyse,obviously on purpose,provides us with the unique privilege of wondering,and that's what art is all about.Visual poetry!
Love,sex,sensuality,eroticism,elements and topics ever present in Antonio Pessoa's artworks since his early twenties.
However always treated with the "savoir-faire" of an artist who knows exactly where to stop the evidential signs by instead of forcing the viewers entry,keep them in the value of mystery,evaporating the lines by changing them into a vapor of underlines,the unclearness virtue of ambiguity and in so doing, creating an artistic expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context,however pleasantly digested from its hazy source,this unclear form of lesbian love of blurred outlines , as Antonio Pessoa purposely shows us in his "Two Mermaids" from 1999,provides us with enough to understand it clearly while the meaning is almost waggishly clouded!
Marc Gilot
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