The Port of Montreal has unveiled a work on one of its overpasses in homage to Montreal artist Guido Molinari.
The bridge is located in the Viauville sector, in the district of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, where Molinari had established his workshop.
The exhibition is inspired by the work Black Anglemade in the late 1950s and which is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
The project was brought to fruition with the collaboration of the Guido Molinari Foundation.
A statement said that the architects and designers involved in the project had studied a multitude of works by Molinari that could have been displayed on the bridge.
“It is in the spirit of the work and guided by the studies of the art historian François-Marc Gagnon, that this motif, taken from the painting Black anglewill have been chosen by them as the source for this variation,” underlined Francine Savard, graphic designer.
Guido Molinari, born in 1933 in Montreal, is considered a major figure in abstract painting in Canada. He has won several awards during his career and achieved international success. He died in 2004.