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On Saturday 19 April until 28 September 2008 at the Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art in Italy there will be an art exhibition entitled, GOD & GOODS. Spirituality and Mass Confusion.

The large scale group show will feature 28 artists, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto and it aims to present the idea of the sacred and the spiritual.

In the past art and religion have been indissolubly linked, considering that only a few centuries ago the artists really freed themselves from the wishes and the necessities of the commissioners. But what is the relationship between art and religion today? Maybe it would be correct to say that they are complementary: one asks questions, the other gives answers. What brings them closer it is not their consequentiality but, on the contrary, their common source of doubt: today subject of art and always at the origin of religion. This exhibition 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.

God and Goods aims to open a dialogue with the topic of religion being it an immense, controversial and unresolved debate but also a concept open to new and various forms of interpretation. This show originates from the principle that God can be Goods, can be What determines things, can be a System, a Force, a Research, a Consequence, an Idea in constant and unstoppable oscillation. The works of the artists in the exhibition, dated from the late Eighties until nowadays and including also some site specific projects realized for the show, 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.

Below is the list of artists showing their works at the exhibition:
Adel Abdessemed, Victor Alimpiev and 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 and Arthur Zmijewski.

[via villamanincontemporanea]