Gabriele Tinti 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
Capitoline Museums, The
Ara Pacis, the
National Archaeological Museum, Naples 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, the
Doryphoros and many other masterpieces. His works have been the object of readings and performances in front of the works of art that inspired them. 2014 marked his first work with
Franco Nero, who then several times read Tinti's poems inspired by the collections in the
National Roman Museum and the
Capitoline Museums. In 2015
Robert Davi read Tinti's poem the
Boxer at Rest at the
J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and in subsequent years at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, again at the
J. Paul Getty Museum and in a series of videos for the
Treccani, Italian Encyclopaedia of Science, Letters, and Arts. In 2016 the actor
Joe Mantegna read some poems inspired by the figure of
Heracles at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 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
ekphrastic poetry project ‘Ruins’ was awarded the Premio Montale with a ceremony at the
National Roman Museum in Palazzo Altemps. In the same year he extended his poetic work inspired by masterpieces of art to Renaissance painting, with a reading at the
Pinacoteca di Brera and the Galleria di Palazzo Spinola, working again with the actor
Alessandro Haber. In 2019 he was involved in a series of readings at the
Capitoline Museums, the
National Roman Museum, the
J. Paul Getty Museum and the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles with
Marton Csokas,
Robert Davi and
Jamie McShane. In February 2020 he returned to the
British Museum for a reading inspired by the Trojan heroes on the occasion of the “Troy Myth and Reality” exhibition. On
World Poetry Day, 21 March 2020, the
National Roman Museum presented the first poetic audio guide for the museum written by Tinti with readings by
Marton Csokas,
Alessandro Haber,
Franco Nero and
Kevin Spacey. In 2020 the Parco Archeologico Colosseo commissioned him to write a series of pieces evoking the statues once present in the
Roman Forum, the
Colosseum and the
Domus Aurea. His poems were read by
Alessandro Haber,
Michele Placido,
Robert Davi,
Stephen Fry,
James Cosmo,
Marton Csokas,
Abel Ferrara and
Franco Nero. His work with
Abel Ferrara began in 2020 with a reading inspired by the “Ludovisi Gaul”, continued in February 2021 at the
Pinacoteca di Brera with a reading inspired by the “Christ at the Column” by
Donato Bramante and developed in May 2021 at the
Cappella Sansevero with a dramatic reading inspired by the
Veiled Christ, culminating in recent performances in front of “The Mocking of Christ” by
Beato Angelico at the Museo San Marco in Florence and Andrea Mantegna’s “Ecce Homo” at the
Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. Abel Ferrara also has an excerpt of Tinti's poem inspired by
Christ at the Column read to
Ethan Hawke in the 2021 film
Zeros and Ones. In the same year, the 'Ruins' project was compiled into a book by Eris Pres (London) and Libri Scheiwiller (Milan). Notable addresses of Tinti's work include those by literary critics, archeologists, philosophers, poets such as
Kenneth Goldsmith, Andrew Stewart, Kenneth Lapatin,
Lynda Nead,
Nigel Spivey,
Umberto Curi,
Derrick de Kerckhove. == Collaborations ==