Alfredo Yache

Alfredo Yache lives and creates in Anjou, in the heart of the nature that inspires and animates him. For more than thirty-five years, Yache has explored the image, navigating between photography and painting, oscillating between instant capture and inspiration matured over time.

His slow, thoughtful approach is rooted in the mysteries of trees, those fascinating beings that are both powerful and light, rooted and aerial, embodying the paradox between strength and fragility, matter and emptiness. ‘The most important thing in drawing a tree is the air between the leaves’, said Matisse. Yache also immerses himself in the magic of botany, where each flower, each plant, reveals to his eyes an almost cosmic sensuality or strangeness. For him, nature cannot be summed up in the simple gaze of the lens or the frozen mise-en-scène of painting.

In 1990, he changed his relationship with photography, his preferred art form. When he scratched the surface of a Polaroid with a stylus, he transformed a simple photographic image into a unique work, in which the artist's hand imposed its vision, modifying the frozen representation. For several years, he devoted himself to this transformation, bending the instantaneity of the photograph to the conte...

Career and milestones
Alfredo Yache's artistic career has been enriched over the years by several exhibitions, each marking a significant stage in the development of his work.

In 1992, he exhibited his altered Polaroids at the Banque de Neuflize, Schlumberger, Mallet in Paris, where he revealed his unique technique for transforming photographic images. Three years later, in 1995, he presented Visions du Sud at the Galerie du Conseil départemental du Var in Toulon, an exploration of the light and landscapes of southern France. In 1998, his exhibition Arborescences at the Abbaye de Longpont highlighted his fascination with nature, particularly trees and their organic forms.

The year 2000 marked a turning point with Ruissellements, a private exhibition in Chanzeaux, where Yache continued his work on natural elements, in particular water and its movement. In 2004, he presented Fragmentations at the Atelier de Tanneron, deepening his research into the decomposition of the image and exploring new perspectives.

In 2006, he exhibited Chemins vers Rome at a private show in the Italian capital, continuing his artistic dialogue with nature and history. Then in 2010, he returned to France with Botanica at the Galerie de la Bastide des Jourd...