Curated by Valerio Dehò

The exhibition is open from 12 April to 31 July 2010

Antonia Sautter's Maison Atelier, stylist and costume designer, represents quality, magic and transformation in Venice and around the world. After the great success of the Venetian Carnival, Antonia Sautter collaborates with the Michela Rizzo Gallery for the creation of an exclusive party to be held at Palazzo Mocenigo. To make it exclusive, it will be the splendid clothes of the Atelier Antonia Sautter that will dress the guests.

This shows once more how Madame Sautter's activity reaches contemporary art, passing through cinema, for which she created the costumes for the film "Vivaldi, un Prince a Venise" and the collaboration with Stanley Kubrick in “Eyes Wide Shut”, where the masks designed by Antonia Sautter perfectly match the atmosphere of the film.

For one night we return to 1700: a codega, a typical Venetian figure, will accompany guests from the Michela Rizzo Gallery to the Palazzo, where figures, actors and musicians will animate Vivaldi's notes, entertaining the guests.
An evening that will be talked about for a long time and an event not to be missed, not only for art lovers but also for lovers of fashion and refinement.

Damien Hirst returns to work with the Michela Rizzo Gallery, creating a special series of works on the theme of death: Original the dead, an absolute novelty and personal homage to the city of Venice. In addition, more than twenty recent works on display: a series of six skulls entitled Dead, two large Sceptic and Faithless graphics, where compositions of butterflies recall the iconography of the stained glass windows of European cathedrals in an image suspended between secularism and faith, a painting large size Beautiful Primal Urges Painting, a circular work from the series of spin paintings (canvases painted during a rotating movement) and again, skulls covered with diamond dust.

And there is still much more. For the lucky ones who will be able to access the preview and party on 10 April 2010 at Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice: a great party animated by figures, violinists, and good traditional Venetian food will complete the eighteenth-century atmosphere.