Gabriele Tinti

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 Nazion

10 books in the database