21 March, At the World Poetry Day,il National Roman Museum presents the multimedia project live on its Facebook page at 12:00"Ruins" of the writer and poet Gabriele tinti which will be usable for the duration of one month from the reopening of the Museum.
The technology represents a synthesis of Tinti's best compositions and is aimed at Museum visitors who will be able to access the contents on a web platform via the QR codes present in correspondence with the works.
The project is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Culture and Art Foundation, an instrumental body of theThird Pillar Foundation – International chaired by Prof. Attorney Emmanuele Francesco Maria Emanuele and it's in collaboration with Treccani - Encyclopedia of science and literature ePalazzo Naiadi, the Dedica Anthology.
The mobile format will offer the visitor poetic audio-video-text contributions in English and Italian regarding the masterpieces in question. The project is the first experiment in the world in this regard. The cooperating actors are Marton csokas e Alessandro Haber. The audio guide of the "Boxer at rest" instead shows the video and audio of the live reading of Kevin Spacey.
The masterpieces in question are the following:
Palazzo Altemps
Suicidal Galata
· Erinyes
Hermes Ludovisi
Ares
Massimo Palace
· Boxer
· Mattei sarcophagus
Apollo of the Tiber
· Dionysus
The initiative represents the first stage of a project that will involve other Italian museums, starting with the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, and is part of the broader "Ruins" program which brings together a series of live readings in front of the works and which in recent years has involved some important players (including Kevin Spacey, Joe Mantegna, Marton Csokas, Robert Davi, Burt Young, Vincent Piazza, Franco Nero, Enrico Lo Verso, Luigi lo Cascio and Alessandro Haber) and some of the major Museums in the world such as the Metropolitan in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the LACMA in Los Angeles, the British Museum in London, the National Roman Museum in Palazzo Massimo and Palazzo Altemps, the Glyptotheque in Monaco, the Capitoline Museums, the Ara Pacis Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Naples and many others.
“Ruins” was awarded the Montale Award away from home2018 for poetry and was recently chosen to celebrate the rearrangement of the Getty Villa collections, to continue the dialogue begun with the exhibition of contemporary artists "Plato in LA" on the occasion of which some of the most celebrated artists of today's scene have reinterpreted the impact of Plato on the contemporary world.
Reading "Ruins" was like abandoning all resistance to the past, wearing a different mask each time, those of the ancient tragic actors, to try to follow them in the spell capable of uniting words with images.
Alessandro Haber
The characters that Tinti draws from Greek myths allow the "actor" to inhabit the essential struggle of what makes us human, as in a Noh Theater performance where repetition becomes transcendence; becoming human under the burning sun that gives us life and, at the same time, destruction (…) Every moment, every word, is a prayer, a cry, an offering to the dimension of the Unknown, as happens in a ritual and expressive representation, in the scenario of ideas built on the efforts of a lying, ruined humanity.
Marton csokas
Like a rhapsode of old, Gabriele Tinti has performed his poems of 'speaking-out' (ekphrasis) to audiences in various parts of the world; here are those responses, an anthology of engagement and delight.
Nigel Spivey, University of Cambridge
Lending a voice to these poems on classical statuary made me feel somehow part of the survival of a civilization as profound, tragic, and influential as the ancient one was.
Franco Nero
