Gabriele Tinti est un poète et écrivain italien dont l'œuvre explore les thèmes de la mort et de la souffrance. Ses créations, souvent sous forme de vers lucides et épigrammatiques, se penchent sur les vies dramatiques des boxeurs, des héros vaincus et des personnes handicapées. Tinti a composé des poèmes inspirés par des œuvres d'art antiques issues de grands musées mondiaux, ces pièces ayant été interprétées par des acteurs renommés. Son écriture examine l'expérience humaine à travers le prisme de figures tragiques et de chefs-d'œuvre artistiques.
The collection features modern epinician odes that celebrate boxers as contemporary heroes, focusing on their struggles rather than victories. Unlike ancient times, these heroes face the harsh reality of defeat, highlighting their fragility and humanity. The poems adopt a direct and matter-of-fact style, transforming traditional themes into poignant narratives about everyday warriors. Through their exceptional yet relatable experiences, these odes evoke deep admiration and compassion, portraying the bittersweet nature of their exploits.
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).
Gabriele Tinti has with this aim composed the last words of ordinary people who chose to commit suicide into a collectanea, a single, long, painful, moving poem of reality. Their words have been organised by the author into a kind of collective epitaph and faithfully recorded without any kind of alteration, freeing them of any pathetic attempt at identifying, fiction or literary affectation. They are lethal, terrible, lucid words written as a shout, a scream, in serenity, with awareness, at peace; words that contain all the terrible complexity of life. In being last words, the end of all communication, of every vital impulse, they testify to the most authentic difficulty of being men.
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.
Ring – the means of illusion is a conceptual look at the boxing world. The author, Gabriele Tinti, considers boxing to be one of the fine arts. In this work he seeks to capture and convey the complex, deep and existential impact that the display of violence has on the spectator. His words are a kind of simulacra of the boxing world – a world depicted as a place of illusion and magic in which you can lose your dreams, your identity and all sense of certainty. Images from the same-titled video installation by the Argentine artist Sebastian Diaz Morales complete the book. The video installation is made up of pictorial readings of violence and reality. The images do not tend to show violence as such but rather they reflect a study on its various appearances and ambiguities; and they pose questions about the perception, reality and effect of violence.
