Ikona Gallery opens to the public the exhibition CHUCK FREEDMAN, 'VENICE ICON' consists of a collection of photographs by American author Chuck Freedman. Chuck Freedman was born in Washington DC where he graduated at the Catholic University of America. Architect, interior designer, he began studying photography in 1973, with Lisette Model and then continued as his assistant, until his death in 1983. Specializing in fitting workspaces has had among its patrons the director Jonathan Demme and the musician David Byrne. He also set up some shows for Ikona Gallery including Evsa and Lisette Model, 1984, Berenice Abbott, 1986, in Florence John Batho, 1987, Person, 1991, Helen Levitt and Bruce Davidson, 2002. Ikona Gallery presented four solo exhibitions of Freedman in Venice in 1980 and 1983 exhibitions in San Moise in 1984 in New York and 2004 in Campo del Ghetto Nuovo. Ikona Gallery has also edited, in 1994, his exhibition at Art Tapes, New York, in 1999, with a staff of Warehouse Sale, titled 'ICON VENICE' The photographs on display at Ikona Venice, show people and places of reality Venice transfigured from the eyes of the author and are result of work of Freedman in Venice, from the 80s to 2003, during the long collaboration with Ikona Gallery.