Christopher Thomas "Venice in Solitude"
Steven Kasher Gallery
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Steven Kasher Gallery exhibits Christopher Thomas: Venice in Solitude. The exhibition presents a selection of large-scale black and white photographs of Venice by the Munich-based photographer Christopher Thomas. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication Christopher Thomas: Venice in Solitude (Prestel, 2012). In these hauntingly beautiful photographs, Thomas takes us on a solitary tour of the city known as “The Most Serene Republic.” Viewers can almost feel the ghosts of Titian and Vivaldi, of Henry James and Thomas Mann wandering the canals and cobblestones. We experience the city as an ingenious and luminous oasis of majesty and calm.
This is our second solo exhibition of the artist’s work. As in the case of his previous exhibition and publication, New York Sleeps Thomas presents photographs taken with a large-format camera and a no-longer-manufactured Polaroid negative film. These enable his prints to achieve a degree of detail and tonal nuance rarely found in contemporary black and white photography. Again, as he did in New York, Thomas shoots at dawn, when no other people are on the scene. It is if, at this moment when night borders day, he could uncover the essence of the city, erasing the profane and quotidian in favor of the eternal or timeless.
Included are classic views of the palaces along the Grand Canal, the Doge’s Palace, the Piazza San Marco, the Rialto Bridge and many other monuments. Thomas also strayed from well-known paths to photograph areas of the city which are not part of our collective memories of Venice: abandoned canals and workshops in Cannaregio, the narrow streets in Castello decked with washing-lines and the Gondola shipyard of San Trovaso in Dorsoduro.
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Schedule
from October 04, 2012 to November 03, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-04 from 18:00 to 20:00