Gabriele Tinti

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 performed by actors like Abel Ferrara, Malcolm McDowell, Stephen Fry, Kevin Spacey, Joe Mantegna, Michael Imperioli, Burt Young, James Cosmo, Marton Csokas, Alessandro Haber, Robert Davi, Vincent Piazza and Franco Nero. His work focuses on the subject of death and suffering and is mainly composed in the form of lucid and epigrammatic poetry. In 2016 he published “Last words” (Skira Rizzoli) a collection of found poetry in association with Andres Serrano. 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 he published Ruins by Eris Press (London). His poetry collection “Bleedings- Incipit Tragoedia” will be published by La Nave di Teseo (Milan, 2022) and in an English edition by Contra Mundum Press (New York, 2023)