2nd Sculpture 1969

Michael Bolus’s playful sculpture is an essay in colour, shape and form. Think of the artist carefully placing each arrow-like diamond, one after another, to create a sense of forward movement. I can imagine Bolus’s studio—the tools, the paints, the half-finished models, and the atmosphere of creative energy! It’s exciting to imagine the initial idea for the sculpture, and how it evolved. The cool and minimal use of form reminds me a little of Sol Lewitt's cube structures. The colours create a graphic rhythm as they unfold, green to yellow, black to red, and finally blue. I wonder whether Bolus chose them for their symbolic qualities. Are they signifiers, pointing us towards a direction, a feeling, a state of mind? Perhaps he was thinking of scientific models, architectural plans, or the built environment itself? Artists never work in isolation and are always in dialogue with one another, so in that sense, everything is everything else. The sculpture exists as a material thing and as an idea, but the meaning is always open to the viewer, and the work is never truly complete.