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The gallery's connection to Italy and avant-garde artists from Milan, Turin and Rome was extremely important, particularly during its early years in the 1960s and -70s. During this period, a new understanding of art emerged in Europe and America, breaking with existing artistic concepts and aesthetic conventions. While conceptual art was often criticised for being reduced, cold and cerebral, it found a poetic, sensual and life-affirming expression in Italy. The current exhibition, CONTRASTES, demonstrates this in a compelling way. It brings together three artists: Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994), Giorgio Griffa (born 1936), and Giulio Paolini (born 1940).

The gallery has a long and intense history with these artists. Regular visits to galleries and studios in Milan and Turin shaped the 1970s, as did the intense summer days spent in Spoleto with many Italian avant-garde artists. The gallery exhibited Alighiero Boetti (later Alighiero e Boetti) and Giorgio Griffa in the group exhibition "Objects, Projects, Plans – Conceptual Art from Italy" in 1972. This was followed by solo exhibitions with Alighiero Boetti in 1974, 1977 and 1982, and with Giorgio Griffa in 1973, 1975, 1978, 1981 and 2017. The gallery's collaboration with Giulio Paolini continues to this day, and it has shown his works in nine solo exhibitions since 1973.

Throughout the exhibition, the three Italian artists are joined by friends and guests connected to them in life or in spirit. It opens with works by: Antonio Calderara (1903–1978), Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), and Verena Loewensberg (1912–1986).