Per Fronth´s Commission Photosynthesis on Rouge Tomate Cart in The Park - a street spring food adventure:

NEW YORK, MAY 21ST 2013:

Michelin star restaurant, Rouge Tomate New York takes the street vendor food cart to a completely different level in Central Park.
The well-knowned award-winning restaurant on Fifth Avenue changes the not only what street food may be, offering high quality/ low-fat food right in the park to New Yorkers and their curious visitors from around the world, but also delivers a Zen´s of gastronomical joy.
The Cart in the Park lights up the environment and is brought to life by Per Fronth´s commissionend glass-wall work Photosynthesis 8:31installed at the restaurant in 2008.

- As a former New Yorker, with over 13 years of my life spent in the huzzling city, this is just an incredible fun thing to do - and at the same time healthy to the core. My artworks travel all around the world - little did I know my Photosynthesis piece would grace a Michelin Star food cart in Central Park, says Per Fronth who returns to New York in November 2014 for his next exhibition.

Read Rouge Tomate Newsletter

New York Times article of 2012

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Per Fronth Official Portrait " Horizon " of Magne Ognedal, Director, Petroleum Authorithy Norway;

STAVANGER APRIL 5TH 2013:

Petroleumstilsynet / Petroleum AuthorityNorway which oversees all security measures in the Norwegian Oil Industry, chose Per Fronth to make the official portrait of its long serving Director Magne Ognedal, who stepped down into retirement after 40 years of service, making him one of the industries most valuable persons in the oil security sector. internationall.
Mr. Ogndals life and career was profoundly shaped by the oilrig Aleksander Kielland disastet in the the North Sea March 1980 which killed 123 souls in a winterstorm inferno capsiszing the oilrig.
Per Fronth had his virgin flight in the first mediaplane heading for the disaster the following morning as a 16 year old freelancephotographer

- I have tried to incorporate the pivotal moment when so many friends and fathers and loved ones lost their life in part to lackluster construction; we owe our way of life to their efforts. The Alexander Kielland disaster became the point when human life and environmental safety got on top of the oil industry agenda, says Per Fronth, I wanted to bring their drifting souls into the portrait.

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Per Fronth in London group exhibition gets rave reviews:
SUBLIMATE SUBLIME SUBLIMINAL at The Underdog Gallery and LLoyds Club January 26th - April 13th 2013

LONDON JANUARY 26TH 2013:
The International group show SUBLIMATE SUBLIME SUBLIMINAL curated by artist Alan Rankle under display in London at two separate venues, The Underdog Gallery and the Lloyds Club are receiving great reviews in the artworld

Rita Fennel / One Stop Arts writes: - This is a very strong exhibition with many other equally rich works. Rankle has effectively addressed the themes of the exhibition, and visitors can expect to see interactions between the traditional and contemporary in a broad range of talented contemporary artists.

Read Onestoparts review

Prestigious contemporary art blogger Annabelle Boko / operatoranna writes: : ...., artist and curator Rankle has brought together a stunningly dramatic collection of artists creating viscerally resonant work relevant to the crucial issues of our time.

Read Contemporary Art review by Annabelle Boko

Download catalog The Underdog Gallery

Download catalog LLoyds Club

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Per Fronth: Venus Passage/ Kunstgalleriet, Stavanger / 4. Oct - 4. Nov 2012:

STAVANGER OCTOBER 1ST . 2012:
Per Fronth will open his first exhibition in six years since his last successful show in 2006 at Kunstgalleriet.
The exhibition titled "Venus Passage "will present some of his latest works like the above " Rinse / Shadow Passing Sea of Tranquility(Eclipse) "as well as works on paper. Venus Passage refers to the stellar phenomenon that took place on June 6th 2012, witnessed by millions of people around the globe including Per Fronth; the planet Venus, Earths twin planet, moved across the disk of the Sun, only to be witnessed again by future generations in the year 2117. Using the event as a timecapsule, or a time treshold, Fronth has created works with a vague reference to this heavenly matter-of-factly experience; he became father of two twins in the February 2012, being a twin himself traces of this new trajectory of his own personal life, he has woven together stories with the treads of politics, rituals, personal events - and the elusive matter intuition.

DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE: VENUS PASSAGE / 28p. PDF / Installation view: click images

MEDIA: DOWNLOAD HIGHREZ IMAGES - CLICK IMAGES

PRESS RELEASE OCT 1ST 2012: Per Fronth / Venus Passage ( In Norwegian )

NATT & DAG INTERVIEW WITH PER FRONTH / NOV 4TH 2012:

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FriTanken opens in Ny-Hellesund / Ny-Hellesund Rehab at Verftet:

NY-HELLESUND / NORWAY / Summer 2012: Per Fronth + Architecture
Aligned up to the Stella Polaris, every sailors guiding star on the Northern Hemisphere, FriTanken, an old Solar Diesel Oiltank at the old shipwharf in the coastal village, is given new life as a comtemporary apartment. Designed by Per Fronth together with Siv Architect Tor Linge Tønnesen / Strek and the the interior made byJonas Dybedal, Bico the tank has already established itself as a coastal landmark
in Norway. Verftet was torn down raised from the ashes as a modern conference center with reknowned Bølgen & Moi gourmetrestaurant and 21 apartments. Set in the pristine and protected coastal village of Ny-Hellesund, an important location for Per Fronth, the tank will be welcoming artists, wedding couples and those who seek silencium - and days of recharching.

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Bentleys Fine Art Auctions, England report great sales: Per Fronth´s work Conflict sold at auction together with Banksy, the Chapman Brothers and Robert Mapplethorpe - confirming the artmarkets interest in Fronth´s art.

ENGLAND MARCH 2012:
Per Fronth artwork " Conflict (Band of Horses) Study " was recently sold at Bentleys Fine Art Auctions in Great Britain. Fronths new work was listed together with great influential artist like the Chapman Brothers, Gary Hume, Alan Rankle, Ropert Mapplethorpe - and Banksy. This is the first in a series of auctions Bentleys will address to establish both a new venue for the exchange of contemporary art as well as positioning themselves as a player in the field. Per Fronths work, a 60 x 60 cm work from the relatively new Conflict -series sold at estimate, further confirming Fronths positions in the modern art marked.

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Rosendal Mat og Kunst Festival 2012:

Per Fronth selected to be Official Festival Artist:

Exhibition: raw material at Galleri G Guddal / Rosendal

View Catalog: Per Fronth / raw material PDF
www.galleriguddal.no

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FRITANKEN: A change of times - a change of content: Rebuilding the Future

An Oiltank at the defunct Ny-Hellesund Shipwharf to become a 21 m2 rehab for stranded Artists and free thinkers.
Per Fronth and Masterchef Trond Moi join forces in welcoming guests to Verftet/Ny-Hellesund, the first restaurant to open in the sound since the year 1690 - and Norways southernmost Gourmet restaurant.

NY-HELLESUND FEBRUARY 7TH 2012:
Per Fronth has been commissioned to produce artworks and be the artistic director for Verftet in Ny-Hellesud set to open June 1st 2012.
Together with Master Chef Trond Moi of reknowned Bølgen & Moi Restaurant,he has embarked on a journey to re-invent the shipcompound into a 21-apartment complex in the pristine historical seaside village located just outside Kristiansand, Norway. Verftet, drawn by Tor LingeTønnesen / Strek Architects has been made in close conjunction with the Norwegian authorities for cultural preservation, Riksantikvaren.
As part of the project the only remaining part of the old shipwharf, the Solar Oiltank, will be born again to fill lives not with oil, but with food from nature & food for thought. Measuring 3.60 m across and astounding 4.90 m in height the tank named; Fritanken, the Free Thought, will be reborn a sailors landmark in Norway.
- I want the wharf to be a source for the heart and soul byintroducing visitors from every corner of our globe; seafarers, artists and the curious alike, to contemporary art woven together with modern cusine and the the forces of Nature. This is a place where you become part of the story by simply being here!

www.nyhellesund.com

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Per Fronth Last Statements Exhibition on display at Galleri BI-Z / Kristiansand November 3rd - 20th 2011:

Kristiansand, November 2011:
Per Fronth will inaugurate his sculpture-project Last Statements in a new solo- exhibition which opnes in his hometown Kristiansand, Norway on Thursday Nov 3rd. Last Statements is a project referring to the last words uttered by American Death Row prisoners moments before their execution and last breaths on earth. Fronth has made 12 stoneplates in polished black granite, the texts are sandblasted into the stoneplates with 22. carat goldleafing.
The plates measures 80 x80 x 2 cm. Plate 13 measures 160 x160 x 3 cm ( image above) and are the last words of Death Row prisoner # 777 Karla Faye Tucker executed in 1998, the lst female to be put to silence in the US. Per Fronth attended the execution outside the Huntsville Prison, Texas.

Last Statements Pressrelease PDF
Last Statements Catalog PDF
Last Statements Catalog / eclipse PDF
Last Statement Installation View PDF
Pressclip Last Statements: Newspaper Fædrelandsvennen Weekly Magazine God Helg

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Largest Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten prints historic first visual Op- Ed Chronicle Sept 10. 2011:

Oslo, September 10th 2011:
Norways leading and largest newspaper Aftenposten ( Cir. 240.000) printed on Sep.10th 2011 Per Fronth´s Visual Op-Ed Chronicl marking the 10-year anniverssary of the Sept. 11.2001 terror attacks in New York. Per Fronth who lived in Tribeca 400 yards from the World Trade Center and whose artistic career started in New York experienced the nightmare unfold in broad daylight as his life and neighborhood moved into the shadow of terror.
Slowly the 911 events would infuse both the choices and the art of Per Fronth; leading him to make the series Theatre of War from war-torn Afghanistan in 2009 following Norwegian Soldiers of Democracy in the war against terror.
Per Fronth is the first artist to be embeded with the forces in Afghanistan.
The Cronicle is built up on the raw-material Fronth recorded with his camera the horrific morning 911, following the path of time to a sailtrip across the Atlantic, the birth of his daughter - through the artworks from the AFG-series and the new Defence -series - exiting the chronicle with the line of trajectory exploding in the face of all Norwegians with the July 22. 2011 terror attacks in Oslo.
The Visual Op-Ed Chronicle marks a historic milestone in Aftenposten and the norwegian press. It is the first time a newspaper prints a chronicle -
not in written words, but as a visual statement.

Per Fronth / Norsk Skogmuseum / Aug. 6th - Sep. 18th 2011 / Official Artist Festspillutstillingen 2011:

Elverum Aug 6th 2011:
Norwegian Forest Museum ( Norsk Skogmuseum ) has selected Per Fronth the honor of beingFestspillutstillingen 2011 Official Artist. Norsk Skogmuseum is the largest museum in Norway dedicated to issuses relating to forest and environment, the forest as both a resource for employment and recreation. Per Fronth exhibits works drawn from his ongoing subject matters; Man & Nature and and the dilemmas facing Human Nature. Some of the works displayed are from private collections:Movement I. from BLOODLINES - The Duke of Beauforts Foxhunt ( London 2000) and the llatter series Study for Two Sunsets / AFG from the series Theatre of War ( Oslo / New York 2010), focusing on Fronths 2009 journey to the Afghanistan warzones.
More info:
Norsk Skogmuseum Press Release
Press Clips

Per Fronth / Galleri Ormelet / Tjøme / June 18. - August 28. 2011:

Gamle Ormelet, Tønsberg, June 18th 2011:
Last Statements - inaugural presentation of Per Fronth´s new series discusses Capital Punishment; as part in his ongoing quest to address the state of Human Nature in todays modern world.
Last Statements was presented to the public for the first time on June 18. 2011 as an outdoor installation at Gamle Ormelet 20 year celebration.
The works are based on the final statements inmates utter seconds before their scheduled execution is fullfilled in Huntsville Prison, Texas..
A new work in progress Fronth presented the first 6 of 12 black granite stone plates with the Last Statements inscribed in 22 carat gold.

More info: Last Statements
More info: Gallery Ormelet 2011 Exhibition

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Per Fronth / Hole Art Center & Galleri Infill / Hole /June 11. - August 21. 2011:

Hole, June 11th 2011:

Hole Art Center in collaboration with Galleri Infill:
TIME Curated by Arthistorian Cecilie Tyri Holt
June 11th - August 21. 2011

TIME - an exhibition curated by Cecilie Tyri Holt - will include new works by Per Fronth. Together with the Norwegian artists Ulf Nilsen, Jannik Abel,
Elisabeth Werp, Asbjørn Kessel Brandsnes & Johannes Høie the curated collection of works discuss the abstract notion of time in our lives.
Fronth participate in the dialog with two body of works which in different ways refers to memento mori & vanitas.
This is the first time Fronths project Last Statements is on public view.

For more information, please visit - www.holeartcenter.com

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Per Fronth / Gallery B15 / Copenhagen / 8th April - 11th May 2011:

Copenhagen, 8th of April 2011:

Directions - 8.4-15.11 2011

This exhibition is prepared to mark the vibrancy and direction the gallery will follow in the time to come. 11 artists will present new works. Per Fronth will present his Afghanistan series. Featuring the following gallery artists: 이성근 Sung-Kuen Lee (KR), 马思博 Ma Sibo (CN), 김민정 Minjung Kim (KR), Joram Roukes (NE), Andreas Golder (RU), Jon Fox (UK) , Kirsten Reynolds (UK), Alan Rankle (UK), Rebecca Stevenson (UK), Marco Mazzoni (IT) Per Fronth (NO). (Andreas Golder is represented in DK by LARM)

For more information, please visit - www.galleryb15.dk

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New York Times writes about Grand Hyatt New York $130 million makeover:

New York,Jan 11th 2011: Grand Hyatt New York, the major landmark hotel in New York in which Per Fronth was awarded the large commission for their newly renovated lobby, ManhattanSkyline Restaurant and 1300 guestrooms, received great coverage in the New York Times Business Day section on January 11th 2011 edition.

More info (New York Times link)

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Per Fronth / Evolution of Melancholy / Dillon Gallery / New York / Oct 7th - Nov 6th 2010:

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New York October 2010:

Grand Hyatt New York awards Per Fronth Major Art Commission for rebuilt Main Lobby
in the Prestigeous Landmark Hotel on 42nd Street on Manhattan.



Kristiansand / New York, Sept. 11th 2010: The 216 x 131 inch glass-installation will be mounted for the re-opening in late October 2010. World wide Hotel Corporation in addition commissions Fronth to create Art Wall Paper for 1256 guestrooms.

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A hectic October 2010 month for Per Fronth in New York: Grand Commission / Book-release / Exhibition

Kristiansand / New York, Sept. 7th 2010: Grand Hyatt New York awards Per Fronth a major commission-project to be unveiled in New York in October 2010. More info

Bookrelease: Wednesday October 6th: The US Book Release of Per Fronth will take place at a dinner in Chelsea, Manhattan. The book: Per Fronth is published by Press Publishing, Oslo and is the most extensive volume of the artwork of Per Fronth to date. Put in words by Professor John August Wood (US) and Art-historian Cecilie Tyri Holt (NO) the book has already won awards and sold over 4000 copies in Norway. Distributor in the US will be D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. & artbook.com.

Exhibition Opening: Thursday Oct. 7th: Per Fronths longtime representative in New York, Dillon Gallery, will present the exhibition "Evolution of Melancholy" - a presentation of Fronths visual universe and storytelling over the past 12 years. Artworks from the series Xingu Chronicles ( peoples in the Amazonian rainforest 1998), BLOODLINES ( the Duke of Beauforts Foxhunt 2000) and Theatre of War ( Afghanistan 2009) will be on display.

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