Bauman’s understanding of aesthetic space

Abstract

In this paper we will revise the concept of art as a form that demands
a physical space in order to encounter the Other and in doing so we
will endorse Zygmunt Bauman’s comprehension of aesthetic space.
Contemporary artists like Andy Warhol, Jan Fabre and Oliver Stone
testify that this physical and aesthetical space represents what Bauman
calls the “challenge that labors the knowledge” On that way,
contemporary art becomes a “mirror” of life and culture, an image
of a “fluid modern era”. Only one thing missing in that image is a
distance, which enables us to behold a truthfulness and wholeness of
a being.