ART MUST BE RELAX; ARTIST MUST BE RELAX

Category: Performance/ Video Art

Concept and Director：Tan Tan

Artist: Tan Tan & Eric Bribosia

Performance date: 7th Nov. 2015

Film Production date: Dec. 2016

Length: 8:55min

Filming place: at Giardini, in front of Stirling Pavilion, the passage to Central Pavilion, Spanish pavilion, during the 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

This is one of the most important performances in "Venize Biennale 2015", which was created and performed by Tan Tan at the sites of 56th Venice Biennale.

In November 2015, artist group TanBo created plenty of performance, photograph, video, installation, sound art, intermedia art works at the site of the 56th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale. With these works, they announced to the world that they won the first "Super Lion Award" of “Venize biennale”in the art history! Following, they spread an “online exhibition” with their awarded works in several editions of web news. These news were “liked” and “shared”countless times by their “friends”on facebook and other online platforms from all around the world …

Below is the page of the work series "Venize Biennale":

TANBO (TAN TAN AND ERIC BRIBOSIA) VENIZE BIENNALE／ LA BIENNALE DI VENIZE INTERMEDIA ART

This is an intermedia work in-between performance art and film, which was created at the 56th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale. In this work you will see a fully charged powerful criticism on today's contemporary art with nonsense humor.

In November 2015, artist group TanBo created plenty of performance, photograph, video, installation, sound art, intermedia art works at the site of the 56th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale. With these works, they announced to the world that they won the first "Super Lion Award" of “Venize biennale”in the art history! “Art must be relax; Artist must be relax” is one of their awarded art works.

Tan Tan and Eric Bribosia walk, stand, sit and lay with pajamas at many spaces of Giardini during the 56th La Biennale di Venezia. Their improvised actions drew big attentions from the "important" and "right" people in the art circle... Actually their performance was a walk in the “Alice's Wonderland” with “Emperor's New Suit”.

Special thanks to Salvador Dalí, Francesc Ruiz, Pepo Salazar, for having inspired the creation of TanBo. The name of the work is dedicated to “Art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful” by Marina Abramović.