Clément Bérini

Clément Joseph Bérini (February 21, 1930 – July 21, 1996), Franco-Ontarian born in Timmins, Canada, was a professional visual artist in Ontario, promoter of Northern Ontario art and Franco-Ontarian culture. He stands out among artists of the North because he was recognized early in his artistic career, when he was training in the classical-academic way of painting, and chose to pursue an artistic career in the North. Despite this limitation, Bérini's work has been exhibited in galleries across Ontario, including the nascent circuit of Educational Galleries. His work is present in private collections in Ontario and Québec, and in public places, such as the Regional Hospital in Timmins, or the historical collection of the Ontario Northland Railway in North Bay.

Career Bérini's work is pictorial and painted in oil, but three-dimensional work is also part of his repertoire, along with religious and public murals, graphic work, and building renovation.

His initial mentor was Alphonse Lespérance, a Montréal painter who specialized in portraiture and still life, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Bérini started his artistic training with the techniques of academic painting, In the 1980s Bérini and other artists became very active in the field of educational galleries, to promote the arts and their acquisition in Francophone schools.

Bérini received the Prix du Nouvel-Ontario in 1986 for the quality and cultural impact of his artistic production, in particular his dedication to the Francophone and Northern artistic communities. In 1991 his activities as an artistic organizer led to the founding of BRAVO, the first support organization for Francophone visual artists in Ontario. The same year, Bérini was a member of the working group for a cultural policy for Francophones in Ontario, and contributed to the resulting ministerial report "RSVP! Keys to the future. "

List of exhibitions

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