Welcome Wanderer is a multimedia installation created by the artist Matteo Nasini, which transforms the passage in real time of the billions of stars of the Milky Way into video and sound. The installation based on lengthy research in contemporary art, astrophysics and programming made its worldwide debut at the Clima Gallery in Milan in September 2021. For the Surfing NFT project created in dialogue between Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, in collaboration with the technical partners Artshell and Studio legale LCA, the artist has created an NFT that stops the execution of the installation in real time and visualizes a single image of astral transit on one day, over the coordinates 45.06819660899874, 7.6806650300893935, namely the position of Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. The 24 hours are divided into progressive photographic minutes for a total of 1440 images, starting from the time 00:00, to be read like a book from left to right, top to bottom.

Matteo Nasini (b. 1976, Roma), after graduating from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Roma, was a member of the Luigi Cherubini orchestra directed by Riccardo Muti, from 2003 to 2008. Dur-ing this period he collaborated with various conductors, such as Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov, Ru-dolf Barshai and Krzysztof Penderecki. Over the last decade, the results of Matteo Nasini’s re-search have been shown on various occasions, in public and private institutions. His most important exhibitions and initiatives include the project Sparkling Matter, presented for the first time in the spaces of Marsèlleria and Clima Gallery, winning the Talent Prize 2016 and then shown inside institutions like the MACRO museum in Roma, the Galleria Nazionale di Roma, the spaces of Marsèlleria in New York; and in 2017, in the exhibition Intuition at Palazzo Fortuny, during the 57th Venice Art Biennale. In 2018, he held a solo show, Neolithic Sunshine, presented at the Centro Arti Visive Pescheria di Pesaro and then at Galleria Clima in Milano. Matteo Nasini has also shown work in many other spaces, including: MANIFESTA13, the MAXXI museum in Roma, the Nomas Foundation, Auditorio Parco della Musica in Roma, Museo Villa Croce in Genova, Villa Romana in Firenze, the Orto Botanico of Palermo, the EDF Foundation - Paris La Défence in Paris, Espace Le Carré - Palais Beaux-Art in Lille, La Panacée and ICC in Montpellier, MRAC in Serignan, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Museum of Royal Worcester and in the spaces of Rowing in London.