Lot 42: Guido Molinari 1933 - 2004 Canadian acrylic on canvas Sans titre

Guido Molinari 1933 - 2004 Canadian acrylic on canvas Sans titre
35 x 29 1/4 inches 88.9 x 74.3 centimeters on verso signed and dated 1963 Literature:Louise Letocha, Molinari, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 1979, page 3
Provenance:Art 45, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal Within the vital artistic milieu of Montreal of the 1960s, Guido Molinari, although affected at times by the theories of the Automatists and the Plasticiens, was an individualist who pursued his own course in abstraction. His goal was liberation from any subject and, as Louise Letocha writes, "The notion of seriality which the artist developed between 1963 and 1970 freed the canvas of any possible reference to nature and secured for the painted surface its own reality." During the early 1960s, Molinari - always acutely aware of the history of painting - was interested in the work of Piet Mondrian and his geometric abstractions using squares. In this bold painting, Molinari has taken the geometry of the square and broken it apart, resulting in the parts vibrating against each other, a vibration primarily created by colour. For Molinari, colour was energy, an energy produced by the dynamism of juxtaposed colours. This became a prime focus of his work, as he became aware of how the interface between two colours created a space of its own, a third energetic field.