Full Description
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 the value of art is.
Text in English and Norwegian.
Contents
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
