ALONG THE WEIGHT I HAVE LOST
15/09/2025 – 27/10/2025
Supernova presents Along the Weight I Have Lost, a solo exhibition by Wang Yuxiang featuring new works by the artist, curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi. The opening will take place on Monday, 15 September 2025 at Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere 1a, Rome. The exhibition will be open to the public until 27 October 2025.
The project grounds its visual research in the physical phenomena of alternation, flow, and evaporation within the contemporary urban space, focusing on the role of water molecules in constant transformation—intertwining with movement and the complex interactions between city inhabitants. This interest intersects with the artist’s fascination with the theory of humors and with the dialectical relationship between the human body and the state of humidity in traditional Chinese medicine.
The works presented by Wang Yuxiang have been conceived site-specifically for Supernova, exploring the relationship between full and empty spaces in architecture, between temperature and humidity.
The artist’s encounter with everyday life sparked in him an interest for a concept that finds one of its most complete expressions precisely in the Chinese language: Yuanfen.
The word Yuanfen, “to have destiny without a destiny,” expresses the idea of fortuitous encounters and coincidences tied to an inexplicable past and future, describing the fate and circumstances that bring people together. At first glance, it may be associated with ideas of cause and effect, relationship and emotion, but at its core lie many preexisting conditions, including the will of heaven, fate, practice, and opportunity. In philosophical terms, it could be defined as necessity within chance, though this definition does not exhaust its meaning: destiny is not only predetermined in a previous life, but also cultivated and created in the future. Coincidences exist, but so do deep connections and human warmth. It is difficult to determine what is divine will and what is human action, yet both elements are essential. This term helps develop and complete the link between humidity, the human condition, and the theme of encounter, becoming the poetic key to the entire project.
Wang spent the entire month of June 2025 at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in Milan to create one of the works in the exhibition, following an invitation for an artist residency. “Bronze casting, the core of this process, requires collaboration and mutual listening with the master founders,” Wang explains. “It is a technique that forces one to condense the work into its most essential form, respecting materiality, labor, and the logic of nature. It is a path that unites passion, alchemy, temperature, and ethics, transforming thought into living matter.”
Along the Weight I Have Lost weaves a narrative in which destiny becomes an invisible thread connecting contemporary existences, traversing memory, transformation, and interdependence.
Bio
Wang Yuxiang was born in 1997 in Anhui, China. He lives and works in Rome.
His research focuses on merging Mediterranean and Eastern cultures through the use of simple materials and a concise visual language, moving between his travels and his place of birth. Time, history, and memory are the conceptual themes guiding his work. The artist distances himself from the places in which he intervenes, analyzing their specificities and restoring them through the visual architecture of site-specific projects. Influenced by deconstructivism, he conducts preliminary investigations and research on the environment of the chosen site before beginning his work, followed by local interventions. In this context, the selection and arrangement of materials intertwine, establishing a coherent minimalist dialectic on the weight of historical memory and on questioning images that are cumbersome yet deeply rooted in culture. The themes he explores revolve around reflecting on the hidden values of the landscape within the context of deconstruction.
His recent solo exhibitions include:
Anche il sole sorge, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, text by Giuliana Benassi, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2024);
Pensa di Uscire, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome (2023);
RICCHIAMO, curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi, Spazio Y, Rome (2022).
He has participated in several group exhibitions, including:
Checkmate, text by Giuliana Benassi, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milan (2024);
STATO D’IMPREVISTO, curated by Flaminia Ciuferri and Niccolò Giacomazzi, Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista in Bragora, Campo Bandiera e Moro, Venice (2024);
My Generation – The Art of Post-90!, curated by Wang Chunchen, Sun Dake, Gu Pinqiao, Jia Qianfan, Shanxi Contemporary Art Museum, Taiyuan, China (2023);
Parallelo Oriente/Occidente, curated by Graziano Menolascina, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milan (2022);
Vacunalia: il tempo scortese, curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi and Benedetta Monti, Vacone (RI) (2022);
Davide Salle | Enzo Cucchi | Wang Yuxiang, curated by Graziano Menolascina, PRAC Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Ponzano Romano (2022).
https://www.artribune.com/mostre-evento-arte/wang-yuxiang-lungo-il-peso-che-ho-perduto/
SONORITÀ
14/05/2025 – 01/06/2025
A carefully curated three-week program dedicated to music, dance, and performance art.
Press Release
From May 14 to June 1, Spazio Supernova will host a carefully curated three-week program dedicated to music, dance, and performance art.
The program brings together live performances, dance sessions, creative workshops, and contemporary musical experiences—a fusion of sound and art that invites not only observation but also participation. Designed to break down the boundaries between artist and audience, space and sound, this series of events offers an immersive and inclusive atmosphere, ideal for discovery and dialogue.
Set in one of Rome’s most vibrant cultural locations—Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere 1A—the program provides a platform for both emerging and established talents, fostering a spirit of collaboration and community engagement.
SUPERNOVA is a non-commercial exhibition and cultural space active for three years, located in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. In addition to exhibitions and performances, it hosts community events such as reading circles, film evenings, and creative activities. The space aims to stimulate dialogue between art and community, encouraging intellectual growth, awareness, and empathy. Ultimately, it seeks to remind us of our interconnectedness with one another and with the natural world that sustains us.
https://www.artribune.com/mostre-evento-arte/spazio-supernova-music-festival/
FRANCESCO ANGELINI – SUSPENDED SPACE
09/05/2025 – 12/05/2025
An interactive and dynamic installation that explores the concept of temporality and perception.
Press release
Supernova is pleased to invite you to experience an interactive and dynamic installation that explores the concept of temporality and perception.
Artist Francesco Angelini has created an almost transparent sphere, made of moving signs, suspended between appearing and disappearing.
A form without beginning or end, it measures time through a quick and confident stroke.
The Spaziosospeso is a place of transition, where nothing is what it was anymore, and nothing is yet what it will become.
The interaction with light and the viewing angle alter the perception of suspension, reminding us that reality is subjective and unstable.
The work reflects on the contemporary human condition: an existence in constant connection, suspended between past, present, and future, immersed in a continuous flow of information and images that disorient and blur the line between the real and the fictitious.
Francesco Angelini
From 1968 to 2010 he taught Graphic Design and Photography at the Istituto d’Arte Roma 1 – Museo Artistico Industriale.
Since 1968 he has devoted himself to Visual Art, investigating its function and transformations in contemporary society.
He considers the school a “Workshop of Art,” the center of his activity. Following instinct and chance, he has built a vast archive of works in painting, sculpture, and design, participating in national and international exhibitions and art events.
His way of working layers ideas and realizations, from the microscopic to the monumental: this is the mystery of visual art.
https://www.artribune.com/mostre-evento-arte/francesco-angelini-spaziosospeso/
VALERIO MIELI BOOK PRESENTATION – CRIT WITH CASTRO
TUESDAY 29 APRIL 2025, 18.30 – 20.30
This is the forty-fifth edition of CRITs! Audience participation in the event is open to everyone!
A CRIT is a gathering where artists present their work, “offering” it to collective critique. The audience at a CRIT is invited to observe closely, trying to immerse themselves as much as possible in the work being presented. The artist briefly introduces the work or project they have chosen, after which the discussion unfolds through the contributions of those present, who share their perspective on the work by offering comments or questions and initiating a dialogue with the artist.
At the core of the CRIT is the exchange between artist and audience: CRITs function as a form of collective ritual and can become opportunities to negotiate shared values and meanings. CRITs are based on the idea that reflecting together with a group of peers can strengthen an artist’s practice by introducing a degree of objectivity into the highly subjective dynamics of the private creative process.
Making art is often a solitary pursuit, and at times it can be difficult for an artist to understand whether their work is on the right path—whether the direction they’re taking is bringing them closer to their intended goals. The CRIT offers the artist an opportunity to better understand their practice, their work, and themselves.
https://castroprojects.it/elementor-18557/
SILENT SPRING
FRIDAY 21 MARCH 2025 – TUESDAY 22 APRIL 2025
A group exhibition with a program of events to celebrate the Trastevere spring. Silent Spring will transform the gallery into an immersive space exploring the intersection of scientific writing, narrative, and speculative fiction, drawing inspiration from Rachel Carson’s poetic approach to science.
The exhibition presents Double Lunar Dogs (1984) by Joan Jonas, a prophetic video set in a forgotten space mission, alongside a curated library featuring works by Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Donna Haraway. Irish artist Jesse Jones exhibits The Edge of the Sea, Atlantic oysters engraved with Carson’s words and activated through a divination performance, while Lullaby, To The Tick of Two Clocks and the series Jet-Lag: Sentient by Romana Londi investigate perception, memory, and the limits of human experience.
PROGRAM
March 21: Culinary experience with Tiphaine Calmettes
March 29–30: Children’s workshop: Build your own kite, with Alice Casana
April 1: Book Club: The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington
April 10: Workshop Digesting Ideas with Jesse Jones
April 12: Conversation with artists Jesse Jones, Lulù Nuti, and Romana Londi
https://zero.eu/en/eventi/333188-primavera-silenziosa,roma/
LITERARY EVENINGS: LAURA ACCERBONI
THURSDAY 20 MARCH 2025, 18.30
A new event in Spazio Supernova’s literary series: the focus will be on the book “Il prima e il dopo dell’acqua” (“The Before and After of Water”) by Laura Accerboni, published by Einaudi and presented by Silvio Mignano.
https://zero.eu/en/eventi/332835-serate-letterarie-laura-accerboni,roma/
ANTONIO DELLA GUARDIA – IN THE RAVINES OF VISION
20/02/ 2025 – 16/03/2025
The title of the exhibition evokes a landscape in continuous transformation, where vision layers and redefines itself in the depths of time.
Press Release
Supernova presents IN THE BADLANDS OF VISION, a solo exhibition by Antonio Della Guardia bringing together two new projects by the artist, curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi. The opening will take place on Thursday, 20 February 2025, featuring a performance presented in two iterations, at 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM.
The title of the exhibition evokes a landscape in continuous transformation, where vision layers and redefines itself in the depths of time. Much like calanchi—geological formations shaped by erosion and the shifting of the land—the project revolves around constructing a new perception of reality through imagination.
Know not to be, the performance presented on the occasion of the exhibition, is part of an evolving performative project that premiered in Argentina at the MEC Museum in Córdoba and the Cultural Agency of San Miguel de Tucumán within BIENALSUR. In this new chapter, the work expands through a site-specific installation and through the bodies of performers Claudia Tomaino and Serena Zaccagnini, in dialogue with sound designer Gabriel Fischer.
In parallel, the installation For Practices of New Reality, begun in 2021, focuses here exclusively on the city of Rome. The work gathers and translates the impact of seven locations in the capital that, over the past decade, have most deeply affected the artist for their symbolic and poetic resonance. Through a layering of materials and images, Della Guardia examines the relationship between urban space and individual experience, offering a new reading of reality through the creation of imaginative performative exercises.
The performance will be presented again every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 PM and every Saturday at 11:00 AM until 8 March 2025, while the exhibition will remain open until 16 March 2025.
Bio
Antonio Della Guardia (1990). His research has long focused on the conditioning imposed by contemporary labor on the body, on cognitive processes, and on the most intimate spheres of private life, revealing their traces while simultaneously developing imaginative counter-forms and processes. His work has been presented in various Italian and international institutions, including MEC (Córdoba – Argentina), MAXXI (Rome), MUNTREF (Buenos Aires), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome), MACRO (Rome), Triennale (Milan), Centrul De Interes (Cluj-Napoca), Museo Revoltella (Trieste), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (Rome), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Izolyatsia Foundation (Kyiv), Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como), La Caja (Caracas), Embassy of Italy (Bern), Italian Cultural Institutes (Krakow, Oslo, Warsaw, Caracas).
Useful Information
In the Badlands of Vision by Antonio Della Guardia
Curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi
Supernova – Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere 1a
Opening: 20 February 2025, 6:30–9:30 PM
Performance: 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM
Performers: Claudia Tomaino, Serena Zaccagnini
Sound design: Gabriel Fischer
Installation: Giorgio Merlani
Videomaker: Marcos Mendivil
Photography: Eleonora Cerri Pecorella
Neon works produced by Romana Neon
Performance schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 PM; Saturdays at 11:00 AM
Exhibition closes: 16 March 2025
For further information, please email info@spazio-supernova.com
Special thanks to all Della Guardia’s friends.
CINEART: ROOTS, INDENTITY, EXILE
FRIDAY 31 JANUARY 2025, 19.30
An evening dedicated to the screening of short films by two Syrian artists: “3350km” by Sara Kontar and “Fatme” by Diala Alhindawi. Curated by Sarah Jade and Sara Kontar.
CINEFORUM #3
THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2025, 20.00
Cinema returns to the Supernova spaces in Trastevere. On the program, a tribute to David Lynch with a screening of Mulholland Drive. The evening will be introduced by Tod Williams.
BILINGUAL LITERATURES
NOVEMBER 5 2025
Spazio Supernova – Rome
A bilingual English-Italian reading bringing together cutting-edge voices in American, British, Korean and Italian literature alongside new jazz compositions from New York (via Atlanta, Georgia). This event features the Fall 2025 residents at the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts alongside guest authors from Rome and Naples.
Una lettura bilingue inglese-italiano che riunisce voci all’avanguardia della letteratura americana, britannica, coreana e italiana, insieme a nuove composizioni jazz provenienti da New York (via Atlanta, Georgia). Questo evento vedrà la partecipazione degli attuali residenti di Autunno 2025 della Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts, insieme ad autori da Roma e Napoli.