4th Sculpture 1963

Michael Bolus made this sculpture, "4th Sculpture", but when? And from what? It looks like painted metal, and it seems to just sit there on the floor like a cool tent. The stripey colors, that burgundy and pale yellow, they are smooth and quiet, but they also kinda vibrate against each other. I love the flatness of the shapes, and the way the light falls through the middle. The shadow is a dark triangle, a twin to the thing itself, so it makes you look twice. It reminds me a little of some of Anthony Caro’s sculptures, but more contained and somehow domestic. It's as if Bolus is asking us to rethink the relationship between form and space, maybe suggesting that a sculpture can be both a solid object and an open framework at the same time. For me, art lives in that space where the expected becomes wonderfully ambiguous.