Beyond its apparent chaotic character, the contemporary art possesses certain structuring features. We agree the idea of the Romanian philosopher Tudor Vianu about the workart as a representation of the visible world or of its transcendent ideal. The question of limit, so obsessing in the contemporary art, can be understood like a perpetual temptation to surpassing the human condition, as a bound between the real and the ideal. 'To be', 'to be aware of', 'to be finite', the intelligence, the

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... y, sex, temporality, religion, etc.-all of these are determinations that human being gets as limits which would be established by "somebody else". Such of determinations become favourite topics in contemporary artworks. Stelarc, Marina Abramovic, Ana Mendieta, and Bill Viola are merely part of the artists engaged in a continuous endeavour to transcending the human condition through their very own works.