SUMMER – XXII MÄNTTÄ ART FESTIVAL

Curator: Pirjetta Brander

Artists:
Erika Adamsson, Jan-Erik Andersson & Shawn Decker (USA), Markku Arantila, Riikka Aresalo, Kenneth Bamberg, Tyko Elo, Tom Engblom, Leonora Fredriksson, Viva Granlund, Bo Haglund, Ihana Havo, Mika Helin, Otso Höglund, Petra Innanen, Inka-Maaria Jurvanen, Jussi Juurinen, Eija Keskinen, Yasushi Koyama, Marko Lampisuo, Harri Larjosto, Leevi Lehtinen, Emilia Niskasaari, Olga Palomäki, Sergei Pietilä, Marja Pirilä, Heidi Romo, Airi Salosmaa, Charles Sandison, Risto Suomi, Pekka Syrjälä, Ella Tahkolahti, Barbara Tieaho, Jenni Tieaho, Kalle Turakka Purhonen, Pauliina Turakka Purhonen, Timo Tähkänen, Jussi Valtakari & Antti Ylönen, Senja Vellonen, Kati Åberg

”Summer hymn. Growing season. Holiday, songbirds, nightless night. Yard, dandelion, trampolin, grill, sausage, flies. Cottage, dock, boat, swim suit. Strawberry, pea, crime novel. Grandma’s, cousins. Sunscreen, air mattress, tanning lines. Festival, tent, outhouse, campfire. Summer hit and summer car. Cooler, summer widow. Beer. Summer night’s dream, flirting, condom. Wedding. Midsummer dance, bonfire, lake. Midsummer magic, field, butterflies, clover, cow. Birdhouse, hammock, bilberry, bee, cloud. Lawnmower, vegetable garden, summer job. Confirmation camp, new potatoes, heat. Dress, bikini, shorts, flip-flops. Carpet-pier, sea, seagull. Ball, floaters, shadow, rock. Ice cream. Pool. Sun, shades, terrace. Market square. Amusement park. Sauna, bucket, water dipper, scoop. Rag rug, rain, attic. Frog, worm, fishing rod, float, perch. Sport competition. Blue.
Rain. Wind. Rubber boots, lizard and snake. Bicycle, gravel road, scratch. Back seat, sweat, wunderbaum, roadworks. Baseball cap and sleeveless shirt. Beer, beer, beer. Alcohol, drunkenness and mosquitoes. Horsefly. Deer ked. Fracture. Bandaid, plaster, popsicle, cotton candy. Burn, sausage. Hey. Fever. Weed and bug spray. Death. Drowned. Ants.

Finnish summer is full of hopes and expectations. It’s a dream that helps with getting trough the long winter.”

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