Per Fronth: Evolution of Melancholy

Per Fronth is a Norwegian artist who uses photography as his raw material to create large-format artworks that explore challenging aspects of the human condition, such as war, land rights, and innocence. He recently introduced paid product placement into his artworks, causing controversy about the value of art.

Format: Hardback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 10 April 2023
Publisher: Arnoldsche

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 arts value — and the value of art — is.

Dimension: 320 x 240 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783897906358