Apocalypse, despite its grand aims, may fail to stir the same emotions witnessed at the RA when Sensation, in effect Charles Saatchi's personal art collection, opened its doors. Where Marcus Harvey's Sensation portrait of Moors murderer Myra Hindley touched a raw nerve in the British psyche, Maurizio Cattelan's Apocalypse crushed pope is unlikely to provoke many in this largely protestant nation. Hell, a series of toy Nazi soldiers viciously turning on one another, by Jake and Dinos Chapman - is said to have been the inspiration for the entire show. Since most saints met cruel ends, galleries and churches around the world abound with similarly grisly scenes. Even Cunningham's video piece, with its stylised sex and violence, comes at a time when the British film censors are relaxing their line on such subject matter, in line with public sentiment.
Apocalypse is perhaps more arduous, than shocking.
Visitors enter the exhibition through a crawl way into Gregor Schneider's installation, Cellar. Dusty, disorientated and hot, the public can then expect a battery of other physical sensations.