About Guido Molinari
Guido Molinari L.L. D. was a Canadian artist, known nationally and internationally for his serial abstract paintings and their dynamic interplay of colours and focus on modular shapes. His Stripe series is especially celebrated. Molinari himself described their effect - and the effect of all his paintings - as creating a new kind of fictional space "because it happens in the mind and yet also involves the totality of perception". From 1969 to 1970, Molinari created "checkerboard" paintings (he titled them "Structures") dividing the verticals by the horizontal and in 1971, he began to bisect each stripe, creating a new format of triangles. Between 1963 and 1969, he created hard edge paintings consisting of colour in vertical bands of equal width placed on a flat picture plane called the Stripe series. In the late 1970s, he created the Quantificateur series and, in the years before his death, the Checkerboard paintings (he called them the Continuum series).
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