Per Fronth is one of Norway's most distinctive contemporary artists, dynamically redefining the relationship between painting and photography in influential and innovative works.
Painting with photography as his raw material, Fronth's pictorial universe is captivating, bold, controversial, and seductive. Central to Fronth's overall artistic practice are the challenging aspects of the human condition.
Fronth produces large-format artworks in series and different disciplines that are politically, environmentally, socially, and highly emotionally charged: from the war zones in Afghanistan, to the indigenous peoples' fight for their own land in the Amazonas region, and back to his own life, in native Norway, where he explores visual narratives of innocence and the coming of age.
In his most recent project Fronth creates controversy by introducing paid product placement into his artworks already acquired by museums. In doing so he elevates the discussion as to what art's value
and the value of art
is.
Text in English and Norwegian.
Edited by:
Cecilie Tyri Holt
Imprint: Arnoldsche
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions:
Height: 320mm,
Width: 240mm,
Weight: 2.038kg
ISBN: 9783897906341
ISBN 10: 3897906341
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
9 Cecilie Tyri Holt: Preface 12 Maia Kjeldset Siverts: The Vulnerable, Insecure Being 20 Tommy Olsson: The Egocentric, Self-Absorbed Being 24 Gunnar Danbolt: The Creative Being 30 Elisabeth Thorsen: The Secular, Spiritual Being 34 Power Trilogy I: Secretary General 44 Power Trilogy II: Unicorns 52 Power Trilogy III: Sound of Light 62 Cecilie Tyri Holt: The Bigger Picture 66 The Product Placement Project 76 Archipelago 132 Reservoir 150 Selected Works 186 The Painterly Tapestries 198 Sculpture 208 Last Statements 218 Commissions & Portraits 232 Theatre of War / AFG 242 BLOODLINES 256 Xingu Chronicles 258 Donald Kuspit: On Per Fronth’s Xingu Chronicles 270 Collier Brown Jr: Life and Likeness in the Painted Photograph 274 Works on Paper 282 Frode Verpe in Conversation with Per Fronth: Time Less Wasted 290 Timeline 310 Norwegian Texts / Norske tekster 334 Biography
Per Fronth (b. 1963, Kristiansand, NO), entered photojournalism at age 15. He established his art career in New York in the early 1990s, exploring the dialogue between photography and painting. His work is represented in collections such as the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (FR); Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama (JP); Sørlandets Kunstmuseum / Kunstsilo (NO), Norges Bank, Stortinget, Parliament of Norway, NATO and MGM Grand, Las Vegas (US).
