NEWS
Miami / Dec 5th 2017:
Per Fronth New York gallerist Dillon + Lee exhibits Per Fronth new tapestry Gravity ( Joy) Bubbles / A Man in Full / Trampoline, 212 x 250 cm, at Art Miami 2017.
This is the third time Fronth is part of the world largest art fair through his galleris in New York.
Oslo / Nov 10 2017:
Per Fronth new large work Harmony ( Shadow in the Boy) archipelago moves from exhibition to new home SAS Radisson Blu Caledonien Hotel, KRS, Norway.
HARMONY ( SHADOW IN THE BOY) ARCHIPELAGO
MIXED MEDIA / OIL ON CANVAS
270 X 200 CM / 106 X 78 IN
COLLECTION OF GLASTAD HOLDING AS / CALEDONIEN
Radisson Blu Caledonien Hotel & Glastad Holding AS acquires large new work of Per Fronth for the complete renovation of the hotel scheduled for reopening in June 2018.
The artwork was part of Fronths successful exhibition Inner Rooms at Galleri Fineart / Tjuvholmen / Oslo November 2017.
The motif is based on Fronths childhood experiences and the imagery was collected at a popular and beloved seaside beach, Bertes, close to his birthplace.
The Radisson Blu Caledonian Hotel is an institution for guests visiting the capital of southern Norway, Kristiansand. Hotel received first guests in 1969.
Installation view:
Per Fronth / Inner Rooms / Galleri Fineart / Tjuvholmen / Oslo / November 2017
November 2nd 2017 Per Fronth opened his second solo exhibition Inner Rooms at Galleri Fineart in Oslo since his last successful show Replika in 2014. The new body of works consisted of new tapestry, Interior, as well as paintings, lithographs and new silkscreens.
eCatalogue: Inner Rooms
Video: Inner Rooms / Installation ( by Visual Days)
Video: Inner Rooms / Vernissage Nov 2 2017
Video still by Tore Berntsen / Visual Days
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Oslo / Norway / Oct 8th 2015:
Per Fronth open new graphic works only exhibition Blue Venia at Kunstverket Galleri in Oslo on Thursday Oct 8th.
This is Fronthś first exhibition presenting only works on paper in graphic techniques, drypoint, etching, polymer and lithos.
Produced in sessions this fall at Atelje Ole Larsen, Helsingborg and in Paris, France, at Idem Paris the works represents a revisit to the exploration of graphic mediums he enjoyed and challenges in New York.
Per Fronth started his career as an artist in New York in the early 90s. He studied printing at the now famous PrintMaking Workshopcreated by masterprinter Bob Blackburn, who also received the MacArthur Fellowship. At PMW Fronth met printer Esteban Chaves, a Yale University Alumni who became his first teacher in photoetchings and the possibilites of the print medium. Later Fronth went on to work with printer Nathan Kanofsky of Arak Kanofsky Studios in New Jersey who produced the series Xingu Chronicles , which became Fronthś breaktrough as an artist, presented at Dillon Gallery in New York in 1998, both controversial and hugely successfull.
The exhibition Blue Venia follows three separate narratives intutively related to Nature and Human Nature.
