THE ARTS: NOSTALGIA OF PAST FUTURE LIVES

"The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night 1888" by Vincent Van Gogh.

I always found this painting to be a perfect illustration of my idea of the Nostalgia of Past Future Lives.

I have always thought that being a painter, a writer, an actor, a director, a sculptor, an artist, generally speaking, gives you the freedom of living, imagining, portraying so many lives, so many characters and an infinite palette of feelings and emotions.

Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (Nostalgia) is also a masterpiece, showing the sad and tragic end of the artist, doomed to be consumed by his own obsessions.

The thin line between fiction and reality, between the reality enriched with the artistic emotion and the unseen world of the painter's brush or actor's gesture demoted to indifference and lack of understanding, diminished so cruel by the reality of the static world, of the ordinary of life, that thin line trying to part two worlds, visible and invisible...

Take a good look at this painting - "The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night 1888" - and let the poetry of it vibrate in your mind, see the story as it unfolds before your eyes.

And now see this picture in the greater picture of life and art. What would his life have been if he had only given up his exhausting search for answers.

You can feel him going through his past lives, real and imaginary, you can feel him denying his possibility to find peace and beginning to embrace the fatality of the unavoidable end.

Both the painting and the Nostalghia movie photographs recount stories born out of fictions of the artistic mind in which you most probably - and hopefully- will not find yourself into, taking into account the supreme challenge that both artists - Vincent Van Gogh and the Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov - the character of Nostalghia - who was travelling to Italy to research the life of 18th-century Russian composer Pavel Sosnovsky, who lived there and committed suicide after his return to Russia - failed to overcome: the challenge of living.

The Portrait of Dorian Gray: Beauty, eternal youth, adventure, forbidden liaisons, splendor, glory, fame...

Keeping the balance between the dangerous world of arts, creation, transformation, duality, notoriety and hunger for more and the normal and safe world of the reality of everyday life, family, modesty and equilibrium is a challenge that can be won:

Van Helsing and at the same time Hugh Jackman: The duality of the character portrayed by the actor, the logo of the movie being: Adventure lives forerver, and at the same time the smiling and relaxed real man, photographed by paparazzi, leaving a movie gala, accompanied by his wife and children, ignoring his own celebrity and international recognition.

Choose nostalgia of your past future lives, choose to travel between real and unreal, choose to live adventurous and different everyday, choose to impersonate or create various characters, if you feel like, if you earn to do it, yet, don't forget who you are and whom you love!

Don't forget to come back between us, mortals and don't forget to enjoy the simplicity and beauty of life and people!

Don't forget to always remember your way back!