About Mimmo Baronello

Background

Mimmo was born and raised in Sicily. He graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. Before moving to Canada in 1998, he worked in Milan, Rome, and New York as an art director. Although he continues to work on fine arts and design, his main works consist of environmental art exploring the evolution and the morphing between nature and technology. Mimmo paints the tensions he observes as a new Canadian, pristine nature contaminated by consumer culture and the slow erosion of the Canadian landscape by human industry. His paintings blend the neomannerist / baroque with the contemporary twist.