Yan Pei-Ming, 100 American Dollars, 2007-2008, Watercolour on paper, 154 x 330 cm. Courtesy Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano. ©Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, 2008, France. Photo by André Morin

CODROIPO, ITALY.-Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art presents God & Goods - Spirituality and Mass Confusion, on view April 19 through September 28, 2008. Curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto. List of artists: Adel Abdessemed, Victor Alimpiev / Marian Zhunin, Darren Almond, Thomas Bayrle, Cai Guo Qiang, Mircea Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, George Condo, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Colin Darke, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Fischli/Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Subodh Gupta, Huang Yong Ping, Christian Jankowski, Koo Jeong-A, Sarah Lucas, Dan Perjovschi, Susan Philipsz, Richard Prince, Anri Sala, Nedko Solakov, Thomas Struth, Piotr Uklanski, Yan Pei Ming, Arthur Zmijewski.

On the 19th of April 2008 GOD & GOODS. Spirituality and mass confusion, a new large scale group exhibition, will inaugurate the summer season at the Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art. Curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, the show aims to present the idea of the sacred and the spiritual through the interpretation of 30 artists.

The works in the exhibition deal with the concept of religion from a series of indirect point of views: they can confront its dictates with irreverence, analyse its systems and dynamics or propose, ironically or not, alternative models.

God & Goods wishes to observe the way in which, through doubt, the artists challenge the stereotypes and the limitations of the concept of God to substitute it with many different and infinite question marks.  (courtesy www.artdaily.com)

Thomas Struth, Duomo di Milano, interno, 1998, Collezione Paolo Consolandi, Milano, fotografia a colori. cm 186,5 x 231. ed. 1/10.