Bleedings, Laments by Gabriele Tinti and Abel Ferrara

Images courtesy Guido Gazzilli

Italian poet Gabriele Tinti involved director and actor Abel Ferrara in a series of readings inspired by ancient myths and some biblical episodes.

We have heard Ferrara’s reading in Paris inspired by Andrea Mantegna's painting "Ecce Homo”. The event took place in front of the art work held at the Musée Jacquemart-André. Abel Ferrara’s participation was extremely significant given the concept of the painting and Gabriele Tinti’s poems which are about suffering, redemption, sense of guilt.

Tinti’s poetry is lament, prayer, invocation. On the other hand - as he himself states - one writes “to desperately endure, to defeat time, to defend oneself against the power of death. A pathetic attempt but it is on this sentimentality that all Western art is based. There is nothing heroic in writing - if anything violence, tragedy, precisely, pathos”. His poetry is epigrammatic, crude, brutal. Abel Ferrara’s voice and dry interpretation each time reinstates the personal drama of every man when he finds himself separated from the divine, when he is constantly pushed between hope and desperation, illusion and disappointment, darkness and light.

All projects are presented with the assistance of the Fondazione Cultura e Arte and they are part of a reading series inspired by ancient and modern myths, which has involved some of our times’ best-known artists such as Malcolm McDowell, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Fry, Franco Nero and the most important Museums in the world such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, British Museum, Capitolini Museums, Ara Pacis Museum, Colosseum and National Roman Museum amongst others.