Tomás Milián: Looking for the stains of time

The opening of the photographic exhibition Muros (walls) by Cuban-Italian actor Tomás Milián took place at the gallery from the Promotion film Center of Cuban Institute of art and cinematographic industry (ICAIC, per its initial) in this capital, with the presence of artist Carmine Robustelli  who is also Ambassador of the Republic of Italy to Cuba.

Tomás Milián returns to Cuba after 60-years and brings his photos of walls he has found  in the Republic of India and the cities of New York, Miami, Venice and Rome.

Sara Vega, a specialist for Cuban Cinema Library at ICAIC, presented this exhibition, which is part of the Milian’s agenda in the country coordinated by ICAIC, the Cuban Cinema Library, and the Embassy of Italy to Cuba including a retrospective of some part of his films as the main activity.

Sara Vega, a curator and editor of this exhibition, said that she had done it with much pleasure "I really believe that it is a challenge for the artist having found another look and the spaces to take pictures providing the spirit and soul of certain place, when one passes through this gallery can see how such seemingly similar photographs reflect each of the moments in which they were taken as well as the emotions each of the cities can bring.”I was so surprised this man has had a lot of time and disposition to devote himself to look at reality in a different way and express it through photography".

On his part, the actor became a photographer explained that these pictures "were taken after a trip I made to India, in a very irregular period of my life. I had read in an Italian magazine about a Guru who was able to make miracles and I told my wife: I'm going to India to look for this guru and there is only a miracle that can change me. I was sure that everything would be ok and so it was because I felt so happy from the very first moment I left there that even a little flower or a four-leaf clover impressed me ".

"All this led me to take pictures," he noted. “Once, while being in a sort of convent cell in India, I had a camera in by hands, I saw a spot and took some pictures. I really liked so much the feeling of “painting with my eyes” something it was there by chance that I began to look for spots on walls that made me “paint with eyes” the stains of time. When I came to Rome and I took them, I really loved it; that is I found a way of painting, without painting. I'm a little lazy, so I think I found the way of painting for a lazy person. These are pictures by a lazy artist ".

Source: Cubarte