Press Release: Esko Mannikko

08.15.96

THE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

NEW WORKS: 96.3

Esko MŠnnikkš OULU, FINLAND

Xu Bing - New York, NEW YORK

Franco Mondini Ruiz - SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

Exhibition: September 13 - October 13

The International Artist-in-Residence Program sponsored by ArtPace, A Foundation
for Contemporary Art | San Antonio presents New Works: 96.3, a series of three
installations by artists living and working at ArtPace. Esko MŠnnikkš, Xu Bing, and
Franco Mondini Ruiz were selected by Maaretta Jaukkuri, Chief Curator of the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, for the annual exhibition at ArtPace organized
by a guest curator.

Esko MŠnnikkš

MŠnnikkš was born in 1959 in PudasjŠrvi, Finland and currently lives in Oulu, Finland.
In 1995, he was named Young Artist of the Year by the Tampere Art Museum, Tampere,
and is currently the subject of a major touring exhibition and catalogue, organized by
Porticus Frankfurt am Main. His recent color photographs document elderly bachelors
and their domestic surroundings in remote areas of Finland. During his residency at
ArtPace, MŠnnikkš visited areas of San Antonio, Uvalde and Batesville in order to
photograph the colorful and unique lifestyles of residents of South Texas. From the
surreal to the mundane, the resulting images present mothers, fathers, children, friends
and workers in their domestic or vocational environments. The photographs are mounted
in old frames, which MŠnnikkš has collected from numerous thrift shops in South
Texas.

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