Author: Gabriele Tinti
Bio: A recent recipient of the 2018 Montale Poetry Award, Gabriele Tinti is an Italian poet and writer. He has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Roman Museum, the Capitolini Museums, the Archeological Museum in Naples, the Ara Pacis Museums and the Glyptothek of Munich, composing poems for ancient works of art, including The Boxer at Rest, the Discobolus, Arundel Head, the Ludovisi Gaul, the Victorious Youth, the Farnese Hercules, the Hercules by Scopas, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, the Barberini Faun and many other masterpieces. His poems have been recited by actors like Abel Ferrara, Marton Csokas, Kevin Spacey, Malcolm McDowell, Joe Mantegna, Michael Imperioli, Burt Young, Alessandro Haber, Robert Davi, Luigi Lo Cascio, Enrico Lo Verso, Jamie Mc. Shane, Vincent Piazza, and Franco Nero.
In 2016 he published Last Words (Skira Rizzoli) a collection of found poetry in association with Andres Serrano.
From 2016 to 2018 he composed some poems inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s masterpieces with mythological subjects. His works have been read at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection by the actor Burt Young, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York by the actor Vincent Piazza, and at the Museo del Novecento in Milan by Alessandro Haber.
In 2018, his ecphrastic poetry project Ruins was awarded the Premio Montale with a ceremony at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps.
In 2019, he worked with the two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey. After having returned to the stage with the video ‘Let me be Frank’, which attracted millions of views, on August 2, Spacey read four of Tinti’s poems inspired by The Boxer at Rest in front of a large crowd that was gathered at the National Roman Museum in Palazzo Massimo, where the statue is located.
Publication of his poetry collection with illustrations by the artist Roger Ballen is planned for 2020 by Powerhouse Books (New York).
Pubblication of “Ruins” is planned for October 2020 by Eris Press (London).