Guido Molinari Foundation | Five views on color

The Guido Molinari Foundation presents, until May 28, Tones, tints, shades. The exhibition stems from an exploration of the foundation’s archives by Karine Fréchette, Nicolas Grenier, Luce Meunier, Ianick Raymond and Julie Trudel, five Montreal artists whose color is central to their practice and who came to residence draw inspiration from the works of modernist abstractionist Guido Molinari.

“The generation of these five artists takes a very different look at the pictorial heritage of abstraction and its use of color,” explains artist and curator David Elliott. The simplicity and absolute authority of Molinari and his plastic colleagues gave way to an aesthetic based on unstable definitions. These artists evolve, like all of us, in a society saturated with influences and options, in the uncertainty of their relative value. »

The five artists worked together during their residency, exchanging ideas on the possibilities of color and on this current chromatic landscape that constitutes our urban, industrial, natural and virtual daily life. The exhibition allows visitors to see the singular experimentation that each of their artistic approaches signs.

Julie Trudel, with her light sculptures, with the collaboration of Nancy Bussières. Luce Meunier with works on paper and canvas that evoke nature. Karine Fréchette, with dazzling paintings imbued with psychedelia. Ianick Raymond and his wall reliefs that seem from another age. Finally, Nicolas Grenier whose degraded and comforting hues we find coupled with texts questioning our social realities. To have !

Tones, tints, shadesat the Guido Molinari Foundation, until May 28.