Poet

Gabriele Tinti is an Italian poet and writer.Gabriele Tinti poet and writer, poeta e scrittore. 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 performed by actors like Willem Dafoe, Kevin Spacey and Abel Ferrara. In 2016 he published “Last words” (Skira Rizzoli) a collection of found poetry in association with Andres Serrano. In 2018 his ecphrastic poetry project ‘Ruins’ was awarded the Premio Montale with a ceremony at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps. In 2020 Tinti published The Earth Will come To Laugh and To Feast (Powerhouse Books, New York) a poetry collection with illustrations by the artist Roger Ballen. In 2021 his Ruins was published by Libri Scheiwiller (Milan) and Eris Press (London). His poetry collection Bleedings- Incipit Tragoedia has been published by La Nave di Teseo (Milan, 2022) and by Contra Mundum Press (New York, 2023).