Thursday 7th June - Marie and Brandino Brandolini’s party for Lilli Doriguzzi. Seen at Marie and Brandino Brandolini’s party for Lilli Doriguzzi, French actress, Ariel Dombasle and philosopher, Bernard-Henri Levy. BHL is one of the stars of Francesco Vezzoli’s video Democrazy shown in the new Italian Pavilion at the Arsenale. In a triumph of pure spectacle, Democrazy sets Sharon Stone against Bernard-Henri Levy, celebrities whose names and faces are part of the collective imagination. In Political Advertisement for the Election of Bernard-Henri Levy as Patrick Hill, Levy takes on the role of the candidate supported by a network of international relationships, someone skilled at forming alliances with political, religious and cultural figures. In Political Advertisement for the Election of Sharon Stone as Patricia Hill, the other video that makes up the installation, Stone plays the well-to-do candidate, possibly representing powerful forces, demagogically poised to seek direct contact with the public on the occasion of her electoral campaign.
Seen at Marie and Brandino Brandolini’s party for Lilli Doriguzzi, Mario Testino toasts his host and hostess Marie and Brandino Brandolini d’Adda with Marie’s glasses designed for lagunaB and filled with Caipirinhas.
The entrance of the Brandolini’s apartment was transformed for the evening into an art gallery showing the works of Lilli Doriguzzi. The exhibition was entitled Passing By.
Seen at Marie and Brandino Brandolini’s party for Lilli Doriguzzi, Simona Gandolfi and her “mother-in-law” Ira Von Fustenberg.
Seen at Marie and Brandino Brandolini’s party for Lilli Doriguzzi, Rolf and Maryam Sachs. Rolf Sachs is an “infamous” minimalist designer and his work covers furniture, interiors and architecture. Together with his wife, Maryam they produced a beautiful picture book, entitled The Wild Emperor where a stationary camera, over a period of a year captured, every 10.5 minutes, the Wild Kaiser range of mountains outside their house