The Vatican Will Mount A Group Show With Cindy Sherman At The 2013 Venice Biennale

Cindy Sherman At The Vatican
In this picture taken Thursday May 10, 2012 US artist Cindy Sherman poses prior to being awarded the 2012 Roswitha Haftmann Prize, the best endowed art award in Europe worth 150,000 Swiss francs (125,000 euros, 162,000 US dollars), at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone/Walter Bieri)
In this picture taken Thursday May 10, 2012 US artist Cindy Sherman poses prior to being awarded the 2012 Roswitha Haftmann Prize, the best endowed art award in Europe worth 150,000 Swiss francs (125,000 euros, 162,000 US dollars), at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone/Walter Bieri)

Just as Pope Francis begins his tenure at the head of the Catholic Church, the announcement comes that the Vatican will finally have its own pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The pavilion's group exhibition, called "Encyclopedic Palace," inspired by the work of Italian-American artist Marino Auriti, will feature a variety of works secular and non- by artists like Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman, as well as a "show-within-a-show" curated by Cindy Sherman, reports Bloomberg.

The exhibition will be themed around the First Book of Genesis, from creation to the Tower of Babel, said Biennale president Paolo Baratta. A full list of the participating artists will be announced in the coming weeks. The pavilion, which represents the Vatican's first contribution to the Biennale, will be located next Argentina's, in the Arsenale section.

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