Guido Molinari 1933 - 2004

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa

Re-purchased by the artist

Private Collection, Montreal

Marie-Eve Beaupré, Molinari Painting and Colour, Montreal, 2008, p. 12

The Canada Council Art Bank Catalogue, Ottawa, 1975, p. 27

This work has been viewed under UV and it is in pristine condition.
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Molinari's career as a painter spanned five decades, during which time he examined the process of perception and delved deeply into the mechanics of colour and structure. By the late 1970s, Molinari was moving away from the series of paintings that were vertical bands of colour to

... the introduction of triangular forms within the grid underlying pictorial organization, which enabled the flattening out of planes. In this way, the monumental size of the works obliges the viewer to plunge straight into the colours in order to discern the optical effects activated by the juxtaposition. We can infer that Molinari's concept of painting was not exclusively an environment of the artist's relationship to the world, but of his relationship with his artistic medium.