Etienne Class

Etienne Class was born on September 19, 1972, in Santurce Puerto Rico.

The art and the temptations marked the artist a lot later, who comes to have a confusion of talent or desires that derail the human being in adolescence. Etienne's artistic interests were street and urban.

At the time of the 80s the graffiti movement was the most street and vandalism, which is now the most active worldwide. In high school he take a class as an art elective, the artist draws to draw but he has been the best in class and all his friends admire him and his teacher. His teacher reassigns him to an Associacion del Corazon poster event in PR, and Etienne wins first place.

It is the first time that the artist has been impacted by the reaction of the people and the value of his talent, winning the first price $ 300.

Between the temptations and not having a very deep knowledge of his talent and not knowing his person. Etienne stops drawing for a few years, leaves the university to be vandalizing and wasting the time of his life. It is not known that he admired the artistic talent of his father Freddie Class with his details for realism and continuing to paint.

Among the lost times he knows music. Ruben blades and Tupac Shakur was an inspirational therapy that the artist got his attention and got the message that he could paint.

In 2001 he had contact with a gallery in San Juan PR, and he prepared his first exhibition entitled Evolution. It defines the difference in the way of life from the peasant to the citizen of his native country. His trajectory starts from here ...

Now the Etienne Class produced channels the unconscious as a means of unlocking the power of the imagination and reveals the contradictions in the everyday world and within modern society. His latest series Routine of the Habits, examines human behaviors that are common in today's culture and tend to occur unconsciously. The work brings to life a new understanding of human nature and its transformative potential.

The routine of habits born with the idea of ​​capturing scenes and personality patterns in our daily life. Demonstrating the positive and negative of the virtues and our emotions. The routine of habits is the expression of the philosophical and underlying human psyche, with the works themselves being an artifact. The imagery is outlandish, perplexing, and even uncanny, as it is meant to jolt the viewer out of their comforting assumptions.

In my metaphor, I explore and transmit with my character what is inherently the psychology of personality, symbols and their meanings. Two common motifs in particular, which I incorporated constantly in my art, are birds and apples. The bird subconsciously symbolizes freedom and liberation, while the apple represents risk or chance, the possibility of a good or bad result. Examines human behaviors that are common in today’s culture and tend to occur subconsciously. Bringing life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

THE BATTLE OF THE OPPOSITIONS

The process of this work is used with certain positions and scenes of corruption in our system masterpieces of Renaissance and Surrealism. Today there is no difference in how we conspiracy each other, if before we lived the same or worse.