Inside Out
The annual Italian Contemporary Art Exhibition
Inside Out explores the boundary between what is visible and what remains hidden.
Featuring works by emerging and established artists, the exhibition delves into themes of identity, memory, and the tension between private and public space — transforming vulnerability into an act of critical strength.
In an era when images often conceal more than they reveal, Inside Out proposes a reversal: bringing the inner world to light and making the invisible visible.
The Artists
Arianna Matta
Arianna Matta (Rome, 1979) and her passion for art led her to graduate from DAMS in Rome; subsequently she obtained a Master's Degree in Aesthetic and Museum Communication. In 2009 she attended the courses of the Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) and in 2011 she was among the finalists of the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice. The geometry that marks Arianna Matta's painting represents her very personal way of telling contemporary reality. The artist intervenes with different tools to create, using a metaphor of Zygmunt Bauman, a "liquid" vision of the world, in which man loses all of his point of reference and everything dissolves into a sort of instability. Her impetuous painting, made of light and color, breaks down places and objects into multiple planes, triggering interference that destabilizes the gaze. This liquid vision expresses all the uncertainty that grips modern society.
She has exhibited in and collaborated with prestigious galleries including Galleria Russo in Rome, Galleria Forni in Bologna and Il Salotto in Milan. Her works are held in private collections around the world.
Manuel Leale
Manuel Leale is an Italian painter, photographer and musician hailing from Bologna and now based in Perth. Honing his skills in composition and colour in the company of some of the most influential artists of Italy’s central-north, his artwork blends storytelling and personal experience through the brushstrokes of his figurative works. His works explore the quantic mind, using physics and psychology to connect empty spaces with the physical elements within them.
Giulia Reale
Giulia Reale is an emerging Italian artist whose practice delves into a refined existentialist vocabulary. Her work centres on the female figure—often rendered without a head—as an emblem of introspection, vulnerability, and the silent burden imposed by a society that continues to overlook the authentic needs of women.
Rather than lingering solely in the realm of drama, Reale introduces luminous passages that act as thresholds of possibility, suggesting a form of renewal that belongs uniquely to the feminine sphere.
These works, recently showcased at the Salerno Biennale,(Italy) earned the artist a special mention.
Alessandra Rossi
Alessandra was born in Friuli in northern Italy in 1968. Graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in the USA in 1991 with a BA in Fine Arts. Alessandra was invited to move to Perth to work on paintings and sculpture for the 1998 Festival of Perth,Since then she has held many solo and group exhibitions at PICA, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Fremantle Art Center and for Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe and Bondi where this year she celebrated 10 years and also she has won Pommery champagne award during the last exhibition. Her most recent works incorporates 3D printing to express links between nature and technology. From the outside in terms of relationship and feeling, sculpture has become another means of expressing the work that she continues to explore also in her paintings, playing with the imagination, looking for what is beneath, inside, hidden.
Simone Piccioni
Simone Piccioni (Rome) is a renowned Italian artist living and working in Sydney. Picconi's paintings explore the tension between what is and what is not is there in the great novels and paintings: harshness and beauty. Piccioni’s latest exhibition, challenges the balance between the act of creating art and transcends any superficial desire for beauty.
For Piccioni art is not merely about capturing what we see, but about revealing what we feel—the invisible connections between memory, place, and emotion." Simone's artistic practice is rooted in the belief that contemporary art must honour the past while boldly embracing the present. Each work is a meditation on the relationship between tradition and innovation, seeking to create pieces that resonate across cultural boundaries.
Piccioni's work has earned international acclaim, with pieces in prestigious collections, including those of the Prince of Qatar, the President of Italy (Giorgio Napolitano) and The Bulgari collection.
Kristina Milaković
Kristina Milaković (Belgrade, 1976) is a contemporary artist whose work explores the fluid relationship between identity, memory, and the emotional landscapes of daily life. Milaković’s works unfold like fragments of a narrative suspended between reality and introspection. Layers of colour, delicate textures, and subtle spatial shifts create visual fields where emotion becomes form and memory becomes architecture. Her practice moves through intimate atmospheres that reveal the vulnerability and resilience of the human condition, offering a nuanced reflection on how personal histories shape our ways of seeing. Kristina lives and works in her atelier-studio in Rome. Milaković has been widely exhibited across Europe including Artrooms London and has been the recipient of many awards and she collaborates annually with notable architects and interior designers at Milan Design Week.
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Alessandro Giusberti
An Italian Postwar & Contemporary artist born in 1955, Alessandro Giusberti began drawing incessantly from the age of five. With a career spanning several decades, he has exhibited in more than one hundred international exhibitions across Europe and the Americas and has been included in numerous private and public collections worldwide.
Giusberti’s artistic practice is defined by distinct periods of research, each marked by works that reach a new pictorial pinnacle—a continuous evolution that has often anticipated and influenced the contemporary avant-garde. His journey moves from the anachronisms of the 1970s, with early experiments in image overlays, to the neorealism and explorations of movement that emerged in the 1980s.
A pioneer of pluridimensionality, Giusberti presented his works at the Venice Biennale in 1992 (Italian Pavilion), and again in 2012, where his multidimensional paintings were showcased.
Driven by rigorous research and an unending curiosity for new ways of perceiving reality and the unknown, Giusberti captures the continuous mutation of life. His quick, sober strokes reveal fleeting moments that transform and consume us—offering a profound study of human movement and the drama of cosmopolitan life. Faces, sidewalks, streets, and even road signs become carriers of deeper stories, revealing far more than the everyday scenes they depict.
In recent years, Giusberti has worked exclusively on commission. In 2017, he furnished the home of Emir Rustani, and in 2024, the offices of Sheikh Karim. These three paintings, along with other significant pieces, have been exhibited at the Museum of Art of Blumenau in Brazil as part of a major celebration of his long and influential artistic career.
Michelino Iorizzo
Michelino Iorizzo is both an artist and professor of painting in prestigious oriental academies, including Hubei University, China. Famous for his female portraits, the artist is represented by several galleries around the world. His works are present in exhibitions and permanent collections of museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, Hubei, China; The Church of San Carlo, Cortona, Italy; and in films and TV series in both Italy and the USA.
Mysterious, at times dreamy and melancholic, Iorizzo’s portraits do not really exist except in his imagination, in the memory of a fleeting encounter or in the artist’s innermost dreams. Iorizzo digs into the pictorial material, corroding the surface and finishing with a patina gloss. In his works, he manages to draw out of each face a history that binds it to an elusive past.
His most recent solo exhibitions were set in premier locations including the Volterra Castle, Tuscany, and the Faina Museum of the UNESCO heritage town of Orvieto. His unique female portraits are in public and private collections in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.
