Last seen: 31 months ago
Jacob Kotsky is a
72 year old guy from
Las Palmas,canary Islands,
Spain
Art is a wonderful field ,Art is supreme communication,in everyone of us there is an artist,in every Art expression there is one of us.
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Antonio Pessoa
- October's day after day -
Antonio Pessoa celebrates life as always in his always unique style,pleasurably facing the contradictory elements of nature,reality,global perspective and professional challenge.
A key factor in his success,work,brightness,wit ,humor and talent,one by one building up the whole and striking the obstructions that stand in the way creating sensation with his spectacular display of colors and lights.
Day after day he bullfights the challenges and dances with the devil while turning on the creative machine wich pushes him onward with the striking energy of a racing horse.His wisdom provides him with the right answers at the right time at the right place,dressing him up with the cool easy going suit of a know how excellency.
Antonio Pessoa takes the flight to Ibiza one more time over to Canary Islands and back,back anf forth about the places he loves the most and where the New Era collection grows and grows,more and more stamped with high quality contemporary art vision,a new concept heralding the new Art times.
Meantime his cooperative team keep on working,such as myself,on Antonio Pessoa's career while his agents in a take it or leave it continuous process reviewing one by one the good amount of art galleries proposals unfortunately not all of them by all means fitting the artist's stern,rigidly accurate,hard-and-fast convictions as how things have to be done,who,where,when and what for.
Day after day as the world goes round and round,Antonio Pessoa seems to go through a period of not a single care in the world although is fully aware and personally commited to the fact the world has become a rather living circus where only Art,love,friendship,mutual understanding and tolerance can be the ultimate mediators between chaos and paradise.
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Oct 09 2006
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- London town -
Antonio Pessoa and the three friends are now living in a three storey house in Askew Road,Hammersmith,
London.
London is something else,a different way of living,another concept of distance and a much more sober night life style than in the lively stimulating Amsterdam.So therefore from the very first day he misses Holland fully aware that his London stay on is just going to be a temporary hookup.
During the daytime Antonio Pessoa paints and most of the evenings playing with Dr.Gold Foot and the Bikini Machine everywhere in London,old songs from the 50's and 60's with sexy Tracy in her peculiar Andrew Sisters style at the microphone.
Meantime every week the artist can be found hurrying up along the Queens Walk and entering the Tate Modern,his ever favourite spare time hangout in downtown London.
Also the National Gallery,Somerset House and the Victoria & Albert Museum are going to be number one priorities in his compulsory agendum.
During these six months in London Antonio Pessoa comes to Amsterdam on a regular basis,taking with him his latest paintings and therefore passing them over to Peter's jurisdictional operating procedures.His dutch best friend can't help looking at him with mild reproachful eyes,expressing the silent reproof he feels about the way the artist is definitely postponing his success let alone the possibility of actually allowing his career going down the drain.
The Askew Road's "pagoda" was a swarming cheerful party that never sleeps,the right place for the young ones to celebrate life,good-time,music,food and lust.
However it was about Christmastime , time to turn off
the loud amplifiers and tune in with the what to do next,when and where.
That was no big headache,no complex existential equations required for the answer had always been laying in at the bottomland of the artist's heart.
Amsterdam!
Only fifteen years after was Antonio Pessoa going to step on the streets of London,England,U.K.,again.
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- Dr. Gold Foot and the Bikini Machine -
If Antonio Pessoa was by then an enthusiastic Art museums regular,the same was not applicable as far as Art galleries are concerned.Crazy and strange as it seems the artist wasn't bound for becoming by then or ever after an Art galleries worm.The reason why still remains unanswered making way to random conjecturing,more or less accurate speculation wich may lead us to going about the possible inner reasons for this peculiar lack of interest.
As a matter of fact Antonio Pessoa throughout the years is going to maintain a solid and unmovable posture about this issue wich spontaneously is going to turn out to be his very own style of actually leading his career by working with independent art dealers,public relations mediators or even friends acting as links batween parties.
Peter van Dijk in Amsterdam back in the 80's was very probably becoming already fully aware of this pretty obvious reluctance in Antonio Pessoa to commit himself to the bureaucratic rules,long waiting energy spending scheduling,pseudoelitist harsh evaluations sessions,a ghastly universe he didn't feel the need to share let alone the urgency to belong to.
Eventually years later Antonio Pessoa becomes a full-time professional wealthy artist without even going through a bit of struggle in the process.More likely as gradual changes through a series of pleasurable states.
So that Summer's July morning when Peter takes him for an interview with a gallery director who kept Antonio Pessoa "patiently" waiting for more than one hour,Peter suddenly finds himself alone in the room as the artist opens the door,steps out on the street and fades away.
That very same day life for the two friends is about to change drastically as drastically can be.
That evening Antonio Pessoa is off to the United Kingdom with two english friends and an english lady singer.
They were going to be Dr.Gold Foot and the Bikini Machine bound for a six months Pub gig playing in London town.
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- back in business -
Peter's place counts once again with the restless presence of this Jack of all trades sort of artist,fact wich Peter starts seeing as a sign of an helpless immature bahavior and unformed character.This unripe fruit named Antonio Pessoa in Peter's perspective is into too many activities at once and by all means procrastinating the development of his best natural vocation and talent.Fine Arts.
Living under pressure by the continuous Peter's friendly proposals that he should once and for all concentrate and commit himself and all his vital energy to Art and nothing else but Art,Antonio Pessoa once again gets back down to earth and to work starting by getting up in the morning and paint most of day therefore giving up night life and his inspiring hangout.The Melkweg.
This constancy goes on for roughly six months.The artist brings his latest traveling memories onto the canvas,enjoying every single moment of it.In the meantime Peter van Dijk takes care of promoting and selling his artworks the best way he knows how,using his influences among the art loving intellectual friends of his wide social circle.
Antonio Pessoa is once again more than glad to be systematically provided with this regular financial gain,an income they split fifty-fifty between the two of them,for Peter besides having assumed to bear the responsibility of being his agent,go-between,public relations and merchant is also taking good care of the productive artist now yielding artwork positive results,by hiring an indonesian house keeper who takes care of the laundry,hot meals and everything else related with proper comfort and home studio warmth in order to keep the artist fully concentrated in his trade's action.
Peter van Dijk is now starting to set serious ambitious plans for Antonio Pessoa's futur,obviously due to the undeniable success he was having with the artist's oils sales.
That could indeed have been the early big break for Antonio Pessoa's career.
However,once again the oddish fate was one more time dancing together hand in hand with the whimsical young
artist.And this time now Mr.Fate was indeed about to strike real hard,anyway,just for the record.
Jacob Kotsky
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Oct 06 2006
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- a Last Goodbye Adventure -
By the end of September,Antonio Pessoa has enough money to live comfortably for at least one year.The Summer is gone and gone is the golden sun and the lively afternoons in the Vondel Park.The artist goes back to the rainproof Melweg.He meets a french girl,Dominique and they hold on to eachother as two dreamers looking for a mutual dream.And that's what they're going to get.
They pack their things and take the first train to Paris without a single care in the world,without even knowing where they're bound for.They do it on the train,they do it everywhere,they know they both need a break,a sweet desperate solution for the Summer's end.
So from Paris to Venice and from Venice to the greek islands,sharing a love they both know it doesn't going to last forever,aware that the artist belongs to Nederland and Dominique is an actress about to move overseas right to Manhattan,New York city.Nevertheless in the meantime they stick to eachother making the most of it,enjoying the moment as well as the last goodbye.
This is the first time in Greece for Antonio Pessoa but it's not going to be the last one.If this time now the greek islands are going to be Paradise,the next time things are going to turn out be rather different.
For two and a half months the two drifters indeed enjoy the last goodbye,back to Venice,from there to Barcelona,back to Paris and once again down south this time to Monaco.
Antonio Pessoa is running out of money and Dominique is running out of passion.They already knew this was a kind of a last goodbye adventure from the very beginning but even so they also knew all goodbyes when the time comes seem to be the hardest moment.
They kissed for the last time at La Gare du Nord in Paris both aware they hardly were going to stumble upon eachother ever again.
That night Antonio Pessoa , once again on his own,took the train back to where he did belong.
Amsterdam !
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Oct 06 2006
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- painting Live and feeling Alive -
While Antonio Pessoa goes on wandering between Impressionism and Surrealism,music and theater,Art workshops and night life,Amsterdam's winter turns into springtime till Summer comes at last bringing new colors,new friends and new ideas into the young man's universe.
Once again the artist visits Paris on a weekly basis,spending hours and hours in a row either in the Louvre Museum or at the Pompidou Center.He loves the amazing contrast between Amsterdam and Paris.Somehow it makes him feel rather complete jumping from one city to the other.He loves to live in Amsterdam and simply adores the Latin touch and smell of the french capital city.
The Vondel Park goes on being one of his favourite Summer hangouts where he draws,paints and does sketches,meets new friends and furthermore grabs his thoughts together.
He feels free and high in the city and in the country he loves the most.He plans to stay in Holland for the rest of his life,still far from knowing or even suspecting that fate had indeed reserved him a totally different direction.
He loves to paint Live at the Vondel Park,enjoying people's reactions and enjoying the summertime weather as well.
Every week he steps out of the train from Paris at the Amsterdam's woderful Central Station.He's back home fullfilled with the parisian poetry and anxious for the dutch way of living.Day after day,night after night,Antonio Pessoa quickly recovers from his winter's depression as if a rescue squad of new inspiration arrived promptly,leaving the pain behind and bringing him forward apparently to a bright and stainless optimistic futur.
He's making a good living with portraits and painting Live with the hoped-for illusion that this Summer is going to last forever,with the hoped-for illusion that this feeling of hapiness and freedom will drag him throughout the years and through life with no more interferences of doubt and pain,blues,darkness and rain.
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- Hieronymus Bosch -
During winter,spring,summer and fall,Antonio Pessoa leads a very intensive life.His eventual love affairs are short-lived passions,lust based infatuations with young women he meets here and there although nothing really serious to be worth specific comments about it.
With Gerard Meerman,the artist had been basically painting his own interpretations of the old Impressionism.
Most of his artworks during that period were divided between Amsterdam cityscapes,portraits,peculiar still lives and nudes.
Antonio Pessoa those days is studying Rembrant,Van Gogh,Renoir and Claude Monet.
As a matter of fact it's going to take years before Antonio Pessoa becomes plenty satisfied with his Universal Art History knowledge and command in order to embrace contemporary Art solidly and cognitively skillfull and technically self-assured as indeed to enter the contemporary dimension and challenge provided with the inter-related absolute vision,concept and whole perspective of past,present and futur.
His acquaintance with Nick and Darius,two artists from New York city living in Amsterdam,is going to take him to have his first worth mention definite important contact with american Expressionism and with twentieth century's Surrealism at the same time.He discovers the interesting possibilities of Salvador Dali,Yves Tanguy,Rene Magritte,Max Ernst and Man Ray and in the process of so doing Antonio Pessoa is once again taking a ride in the Time machine back to 15th century and Jheronimus van Aken,alias,Hieronymus Bosch.
From then on Antonio Pessoa adopts and defends what from his deep belief becomes the undeniable theory that indeed after all Surrealism was born in Nederland with the skills and by the hands of a Great Master genius named Hieronymus Bosch.
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Oct 04 2006
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- Stand by -
For some strange and obscure reason Gerard Meerman and Antonio Pessoa at a certain stage after two years of partnership break up and their affairs are over for good.The young german sells his house and gets back to Germany while Antonio Pessoa with a couple of friends are on their way down south to Morocco driving a Beetle Volkswagen and listening to progressive rock.
Just one more adventure in the artist's life,one more time looking for the One Thousand and One Nights magic or maybe,now that I come to think of it,looking for himself once again.
One way or another this is going to be the second and the last time Antonio Pessoa visits northern Africa.Driving from Paris to Algeciras then from Tangier to Casablanca the three friends not yet fully satisfied decide to go further south to a fantastic charming little town on the coast called Essaouira.This place happens to be also one of the favourite retreats of people such as Keith Richards and Jimmy Hendrix years before.
Eight weeks go by under the golden hot sun of the northern african zone till the three voyagers get back to central Europe in the same white Beetle but with a tan on their faces and some fullfilling magic in their hearts.
Antonio Pessoa arrives in Amsterdam,snow white,lively as always but cold and now he faces the crossroads of what his futur is going to be like and where it's going to lead him to.
He's back to his old friends,back to the Melkweg,once again back to music and theater,back to a long lasting feeling of lost and emptiness despite his spontaneous communication combustion,Antonio Pessoa is well aware there's definitely something missing in his emotional universe,something or someone,anyway life goes on and a strong heart keeps on pumping and providing enough energy to let not enthusiasm and excitement go down the drain just like that.
He lives now with a dutch friend in Damrak,he writes a song called "Waterlooplein Market Blues" and he rehearsals with a dutch band in a huge basement within the bridge structure crossing the Vondelpark.
It's Christmas time,the One Thousand and One Nights magic is gone and Antonio Pessoa lives the blues and feels rather lost in the city he loves the most.
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Oct 03 2006
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- Gerard Meerman , the Patron -
One Summer night at the Black and White cafe,Leidse-plein,Antonio Pessoa acquaints with Gerard Meerman,a wealthy young german art lover who from that night on becomes his best friend in town and within a few weeks,surprise surprise,the artist's Patron.He gives him shelter by providing him a nice studio at his house in Vondelstraat.
It's possible that at a certain point of their relationship,there might have been some sort of silent homosexual platonic feelings going on,but most important of all is that Gerard Meerman indeed took good care of Antonio Pessoa's personal life,needs and whims,giving him the stimulus and motivation to start painting on a regular basis as well as enough freedom so the artist could,shall we say,fullfill his appetite for the night life merry-go-round ,naturally and actuallyvery acceptable at his age and specifically considering his ever restless nature.
This close relationship between the two young men is going to last for two intensive years.Gerard exchanges all this luxurious protection for all Antonio Pessoa's art production.
It seems to be an accurate and certain assumption that indeed there might have been a whole lot more than just friendship between the two of them wich could somehow explain the out of proportion situation at stake.Antonio Pessoa was by then visiting Paris and London on a weekly basis,booking in rather expensive hotels and living a Dolce Vita apparently far beyond his possibilities.
In my humble estimation I would say that Antonio Pessoa during these two years with Gerard Meerman might have produced more than two hundred oils on canvas.
Now the question is, What are the whereabouts of all those art pieces?
The search for the answers lead us straight away to speculative and inquisitive supposition investments and at the end of the road just a sign wich reads "Loose Ends".
Nevertheless one thing is for sure,Gerard Meerman definitely gave Antonio Pessoa the right push,at the right place,at the right time.
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Oct 03 2006
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Antonio Pessoa - Amsterdam
- five years outlook -
Antonio Pessoa starts painting his first oils on canvas in Amsterdam,first in his studio of Prinsengracht,then on and on one year later in his studio in Haarlemstraat and again three years after in his studio off Leidse-plein in Weteringstraat.
Many things , many changes in the meantime during these five years happening - as a traffic jam - in the young artist's life.
So intense and meteoritical were these five years in a row of going through so many and such new and unexpected experiences that it's totally accurate to establish and state that by now we are talking about a different Antonio Pessoa,a young man still rather dizzy evaluating his emotions rush and flows and trying to make out a global understanding of life's strange and fascinating metaphysical forces.
Times were changing,the artist was changed and life was showing clear signs of further changes yet to come.Amsterdam was still there as years before,only that this time now the perspective while looking at the city's life wasn't providing the same feedback as years before.Not better not worse.Just a different feedback in the very same proportion as the artist wasn't any longer a teenager,Antonio Pessoa was now a mid-twenties young man still so very much in love with Amsterdam and still so very much in love with life.
Nevertheless euphoria had turned into sober elation,lust had turned into love and sharing perception,apprenticeship had turned into art source technical command and pain and self-pity had turned into acceptance and tolerance.
By this time without even knowing it yet,Antonio Pessoa is just about to move over to Groningen where he is going to live for almost one year.And as far as Holland is concerned the Groningen experience is also going to be the beginning of the end.
However,Amsterdam-Nederland is going to remain in Antonio Pessoa's heart ,soul and work for all the years to come...
