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Franck Etienne aka Frankétienne is a writer, a poet, a playwright, a musician and a painter. He is one of the rare Haitian authors who writes both in French and Haitian Creole. The political upheavals and uncertainties of Haiti have not stopped him from expressing his opinions or writing on delicate subjects. Frankétienne started to paint in 1972 when he was already 36 years old. He is known for abstract work where he often uses the blue and the red of the Haitian flag. His canvasses, as in “Jazz,” tend to have intricate shapes with a proliferation of tangled coils and loops within convoluted masses, maybe symbolic of the complexity of Haitian life. In 2004, le Musée d’Art Haitien du College de Saint Pierre (the St Peter school’s Museum of Haïtian Art) displayed his work in an exhibit titled: Frankétienne: Entre Ténèbres et Lumière – (Frankétienne: Between Darkness and Light.) His goal was to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of Haiti’s independence. Frankétienne was born in Port-au-Prince in 1936 and is recognized and respected worldwide for the diversity of his creations. His work has been exhibited in Haiti, France, Germany, Swede, Japan, the USA, and several of the Caribbean islands.
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