Ruins collects a series of poems Gabriele Tinti intended for the “living sculpture of the actor.”
The poet moves from the tragic sense of death, of vacuity, that belongs even to our masterpieces that we would like to be eternal, with the aim of giving new life and thought, renewed meaning, to Greco-Roman statuary, to all those relics of a humanity that has now disappeared.
The collection presents itself as a phantasmagoria, a series that makes the remains, the fragments, what remains among the ruins speak. Following its many paths and suggestions allows us to enter into a different relationship and knowledge with the ancient world as well as with the very reasons for making art and literature.
The book is the result of live readings that, over the past few years, a number of well-known actors to the general public such as Kevin Spacey, Malcolm McDowell, Abel Ferrara, Stephen Fry, James Cosmo, Joe Mantegna, Robert Davi, Burt Young, Franco Nero, Alessandro Haber, Michele Placido, Marton Csokas, Jamie McShane, and Vincent Piazza have given in front of the ancient artworks that inspired the author.
Readings have been given at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum and LACMA in Los Angeles, the British Museum in London, the Capitoline Museums in Rome, the Ara Pacis Museum, the National Roman Museum, the Archaeological Museum in Naples, the Colosseum Archaeological Park, and the Glyptothek in Munich.
The book features contributions from a number of eminent scholars of ancient art such as Sean Hemingway (Metropolitan Museum), Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum), Christian Gliwitzky (Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek), Andrew Stewart (UC Berkley), Nigel Spivey (University of Cambridge) and Lynda Nead (Birkbeck, University of London).
AUTHOR
Gabriele Tinti – Is an Italian poet, writer and art critic. He has written inspired by some of the masterpieces of ancient art, collaborating with institutions such as the Archaeological Museum of Naples, the Capitoline Museums, the National Roman Museum, the Ara Pacis Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, LACMA in Los Angeles and the Glyptothek in Munich.
