Gregory Halpern: ‘King, Queen, Knave’ [Book launch]

Join Gregory Halpern in Berlin, where he will be signing copies of his new book King, Queen, Knave, an idiosyncratic vision of his hometown of Buffalo, New York that defies familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embraces an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. The event will include a short talk from the artist, and a drinks reception.

Tuesday 12 November
18:30

Bilband, Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33
10405 Berlin

About King, Queen, Knave

Over two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph. King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halpern’s mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which distinct and unpredictable characters appear in and amongst solitary buildings, snowdrifts, and sun-bleached scenes of everyday transcendence.

The images often locate their subjects within the specificities of the season and balance a historical project with the immediacy of a moment in its individual radiance. Embracing themes of reversal and ascension, Halpern confronts the complexities of his birthplace and of contemporary America at large, seeing beauty intertwined with ugliness and redemption with despair. This lyrical new work is testament to the endless complexity of a place at once familiar and unknown.

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