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"The aura of artworks has shifted towards their public"- p.58, Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud.

When I read about Minimalism, and how it was perceived by the art critics of the time, specially Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, their ideas still resonate within me.
Bourriaud reading on Minimalism, is beautiful, as it explains the transferal of meaning from the work of art, to the body of the beholder. You might relate this to phenomenology, and one of the reasons why I found Minimalism so appealing, since although it was classified as self-referential, I found it to be a big claimant of its own materiality. Bourriaud goes further by explaining that the work by Gonzalez-Torres, achieved this activation of a space of inter-referentiality(p.59, Relational Aesthetics). He proposes an analysis of the behavior of the beholder given a certain situation. This doesn't place the subject as a symbolic player in relation to the piece, rather, it opens a reflective space for the viewer, where actions and their inter-relationships(p.59, Relational Aesthetics), become cues to read the world. All of this I find beautiful.

I have always believed this to be the aim of art, whatever that art stands for. To alter, or to provide with additional ways of reading the world. An opening up.

Minimalism made you closer to the very surface of the encountered object, and by doing so made you wonder as where did the marks come from, or the absence of these. It is in its very flatness, or lack of content, that the work expressed its very extrinsic qualities, those of drawing, phenomenologically, their relationships that lay outside of the work of art (the museum gallery, the invigilators, the lighting, or even the origin or mine where the rock came from...) If the convivial celebration of the disappearance of the work of art was that of Klein's blue history, it was Minimalism's task to fill the void with the world, with a whole new set of relationships, those which had waited to be touched by the vanishing hand of art...or rather artists.