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Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.
Book cover of Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy, featuring a painting with three figures on ski slopes. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers.

Per Fronth

Evolution of Melancholy

Edited by Cecilie Tyri Holt

$85.00

Publishing 5th Jan 2025
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  • Intense colors and a deep understanding of the world are reflected in Per Fronth's oeuvre
  • A contemporary way of painting reacts not only on photography but on new media and the changed routines of perception
  • With a lot of humor and the clear intention to provoke, Fronth also plays with the conditions of the art market
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.

About the Author

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).

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Specifications
Publisher
Arnoldsche Art Publishers
ISBN
9783897906341
Publish date
5th Jan 2025
Binding
Hardback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
9.45 in x 12.6 in
Pages
336 Pages
Illustrations
491 color
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