Gabriele Tinti's Homage to Giorgio de Chirico at MACRO

On September 25, 2016, at MACRO in Rome, poet Gabriele Tinti presented "La nostalgia del poeta: omaggio a Giorgio de Chirico," a tribute linking de Chirico's metaphysical art to a broader critique of contemporary poetry. The event referenced de Chirico's 1914 painting "La nostalgia del poeta" from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Tinti, whose poetry is held by major international centers like Poets House NYC and the Poetry Foundation Chicago, argued that poetry in Italy is in crisis due to pay-to-publish small presses, the decline of major poetry series, and a self-referential community. He cited curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist's 2007 Serpentine Gallery poetry event and publisher Walther König's anthology as rare meaningful interventions. Tinti championed de Chirico's view of Friedrich Nietzsche as the deepest poet, who transcended genre to embody prophecy and confrontation with mortality. The article, published in Artribune Magazine #33, reflects on the loss of poetry's sacred aura and its reduction to mere craft.