2004: Giudecca (island of Venice)

GIUDECCA
(island of Venice)

May 20th to June 11th, 2004
“Cassa di Risparmio” – Bank Showroom
Venice – Campo San Luca
production of the “La Gondola” Photo Club – APS ©

Four photos on show by Fabrizio Uliana:

Subsidized diesel fuel
Seagull
The window in front
Beyond the bars

Silver gelatin prints 30,04 cm  x 40,07 cm
© Fabrizio Uliana, 2003; © “La Gondola” Photo Club – Venice
Archive of the “La Gondola” Photo Club

“Among all the themes Venetian iconography can offer, la Gondola has chosen the Giudecca island for its annual exhibition hosted by the Cassa di Risparmio in Campo San Luca. Across from the magnificent Zattere promenade over a wide branch of the Lagoon (once the Vigano canal, probably the mouth of  a river), the Giudecca island represents perhaps the liveliest and most contradictory experience in the complex Venetian history. After several years of decline following WWII, the island eventually started to recover its productive and residential settlements. Long gone are the major industrial activities that characterized the Giudecca island since the beginning of the XX century: its shipyards, the Stucky mill, Junghans watch factory, Dreher beer plant, Scalera movie studios have given way to luxury hotels and apartment buildings, like Cipriani’s and the renovated Stucky, or important complexes like the Zitelle for cultural events, while several industrial areas have been converted into residential buildings. Today the Giudecca presents a lively and diversified image with its blend of tradition and innovation; its insular location limits tourists crowds and allows a quality of life where social and economic issues seems less harrowing than in the actual historical center. The Gondola exhibition tries to offer its interpretation of this reality by way of symbolic examples rather than narration, through the observation of peculiar sides of the Giudecca daily life, its architectural innovations and old monumentality, its hidden aspect as well as most characteristic ones. It is necessarily a synthetic view, since it is a vast area that, thanks to its insularity, has preserved features that have disappeared elsewhere. We hope that, beside its stylistic and documentary value, this exhibition may also be an opportunity of consideration and hope for the solution of the long-standing problems of the rest of our city.”
Manfredo Manfroi ©, President of the “La Gondola” Photo Club – Venice

 exhibition
in website cflagondola.it

Invitation Giudecca –  10 cm. per 15 cm. pdf

see catalog of the exhibition. pdf 

The members of the Club