Composed of the tools and materials used by Guido Molinari, this workshop is preserved in its original, authentic state and on permanent display.
Guido Molinari: affect and emotionality
“I understood this key dimension of Molinari’s painting, said to be cerebral, systemic, etc., when I visited the sort of wardrobe where he prepared his colors. It was like being at the center of the earth, in the middle of molten magma. Color was everywhere: on the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling, on his shoes, on his clothes… I was the antithesis of the laboratory that some artists’ studios resemble, with their tubes of color and brushes in a flower vase. What was going on here had little to do with science or medicine. It was more like a carpenter’s bench, a forge, a painter’s studio… but a house painter’s studio. Was there an old proletarian background in Molinari, which would also explain his attraction to the working-class neighborhood where he had settled?”
– François-Marc Gagnon, 2006
Watch Le secret le mieux gardé de la Fondation Guido Molinari (Guido Molinari Foundation’s Best Kept Secret), produced as part of the Month of Museums 2024 by Musées Montréal, about Guido’s studio :
