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IKONA GALLERY
IKONA VENEZIA Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2909, Venice.
7 June - 10 September 2017
Curator Živa Kraus.
Catalogue published by IKONA GALLERY, introduction by Alan Jones.
The Chuck Freedman Glass exhibition honors and commemorates the work of Chuck Freedman, always keeping faith to himself and to the big lesson he learned from such great photographers as Berenice Abbott and Lisette Model: everything relies upon the lens of the camera and the lens of the eye. Trusting in his own eye, Chuck Freedman was able to produce a most original work, intimate and universal at the same time. Believing in the power of the lens, he created works which are crystals of light impressed on photographic paper. Lisette Model said about him: “Chuck Freedman's way of seeing and feeling is unconventional. The variety of his photography reflects not chaos, but a guiltless sensitivity to each subject.” His quest for truth and beauty inevitably linked Chuck Freedman to Venice since 1980, at the time of his first exhibition at Ikona Photo Gallery. Now the Chuck Freedman Glass exhibition presents for the first time the twenty-two photographs of his last work, Glass, which is the sum and the synthesis of his intimate and deeply felt knowledge of the city. In his photography glass is light: in transparency, in color, in the continuous motion and reflection that becomes the mark of the city, the voice of the stones of Venice. I would hope that these photographs, these crystals, will be helpful for viewers to follow the infinite line of light and pay close attention to such a unique city as Venice.
In the exhibition catalogue, Alan Jones has been asked to say his word: he leads us into the invisible twists and turns of this long, very frequent two-way Europe-America, America-Europe journey. This is just the beginning of a rediscovery that his text enhances with grace.
IKONA VENEZIA International School of Photography Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2909,Venezia. tel. 041 5289387 mail. ikonavenezia@ikonavenezia.com