"Born in France in 1974, Yann-Eric learned the basics of modeling with his grandfather Jean-Pierre Eichenberger. He created with him in 1966 a monumental sculpture 30m long and 6m high which would be the turning point. A year of daily work that he now considers his
only “art school”.

A second master, Guy Leriche, will teach him intensively how to "create and finalize" his sculptures, working in Bollène clay, a material
exceptional that he will work for almost ten years...

But of all the experiments, the
discoveries, from the first olive wood sculptures from 2004 onwards, will never leave him. The pleasure of wood carving is immense. It
works with local species (Baronnies/Provence), as a need to know the tree and the existence it has lived, the landscape, its daily life, what has shaped it.
With utopia as his driving force in his sculptor's tools, his intention revolves around a simple idea: convinced of the profound aesthetic contained in the personality of each tree.

From this idea, he worked like a machine. He obeyed a plan, executed a series of volume proportions, tirelessly sculpted plant matter to discover the ever-new image of the human, finally reconciled with himself, in his vegetable double.

He then imagines clans, families and characters whose first names resonate in endless games of hide-and-seek, like a hymn to Utopia, to the glory of Derision and Freedom!

With the appearance of the first bronzes in 2016, the immortality of the unique character of these trees was born...