Gabriele Tinti is een Italiaanse dichter en schrijver wiens werk zich verdiept in de thema's dood en lijden. Zijn creaties, vaak in de vorm van heldere en epigrammatische verzen, verkennen de dramatische levens van boksers, verslagen helden en mensen met een handicap. Tinti componeerde gedichten geïnspireerd door oude kunstwerken uit vooraanstaande wereldmusea, waarbij deze stukken tot leven werden gebracht door gerenommeerde acteurs. Zijn schrijven onderzoekt de menselijke ervaring door de lens van tragische figuren en artistieke meesterwerken.
Exploring themes of mortality and suffering, this collection of poems reflects on ancient ruins and cemeteries, drawing inspiration from epigraphic collections and funerary inscriptions. Tinti's work aims to transform the fear associated with death and pain into a poignant expression of memory and loss. Through vivid imagery and emotional depth, the poems evoke a sense of nostalgia for the past while critiquing contemporary existence. The collection serves as a bridge between ancient history and modern anxieties.
Combining poetry and photography, this work evokes haunting visions and deep yearnings for an existence beyond our own. It explores both ancient and contemporary interpretations of the afterlife, creating a thrilling experience that delves into the mysteries surrounding death and what may lie beyond.
Ruins gathers a series of writings in the form of verses, fragments, and short essays that Gabriele Tinti has dedicated to the “living sculpture of the actor”.The poet moves from the tragic sense of death and vacuity which afflicts even those masterpieces we wish eternal, with the aim of giving new life and thought to Graeco-Roman statuary, to all those relics of a now-lost humanity. Through its many courses and varied ideas, the book explores a distinctive relationship with the ancient world, and with the very reasons behind the making of art.This volume is the culmination of live readings by some of the best-known actors of our time (James Cosmo, Marton Csokas, Robert Davi, Abel Ferrara, Stephen Fry, Alessandro Haber, Joe Mantegna, Malcolm McDowell, Jamie McShane, Franco Nero, Vincent Piazza, Michele Placido, and Kevin Spacey), all performed before important works of ancient art.Ruins includes essays by the eminent scholars of ancient art Seán Hemingway (Metropolitan Museum), Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum), Christian Gliwitzky (Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek), Andrew Stewart (UC Berkeley), Lynda Nead (Birkbeck, University of London), and Nigel Spivey (University of Cambridge).
In this highly distinctive artistic collaboration, Gabriele Tinti and Andres Serrano have produced a haunting meditation on religion, violence, and physicality. Tinti, the prize-winning author of the collection Ruins, has produced a sequence of poems that are as remarkable for their lyrical expressiveness as for their forceful compactness. Often disquieting and always uncompromising in their vision of the human capacity to do harm and be harmed, these poems are Tinti’s most impressive body of work to date. Tinti’s verses accompany a series of images composed by Serrano—one of the most highly regarded artists of our time. Serrano’s works engage provocatively with the visual legacy of the Christian and classical traditions, while also embodying a very particular kind of beauty. Both the poems and the images in this volume are a major achievement in their own right; together they make for an essential collection.
