A succession of shots in the heat, this canvas takes us across the plateaus and chasms of a burning and powerful Africa. Dominique Coffignier plays with the material to take us forcefully back to this continent and its origins.

Coffignier observes and explores everyday life. He translates his emotions into energetic paintings. Africa has reinforced the magical and powerful style of his paintings. Earthy colours, ochres, red ochres, whites, greys, blacks and then accents, sometimes an orange or a small cold blue note in a bubbling of materials, colours, splashes, stripes, bites, scratches, and then the balance presented, imposed by the large masses. He knows how to sweep us away with his gestures that play with shapes, and he brings that dimension and presence that are his signature.

Retour De Voyage is delighted to present this work, whose colours and shapes accompany Dominique's other paintings, as well as primitive art objects selected for this exhibition, to immerse us in this world of travel, both tender and violent, across the African continent and through the ages.

dimension 116x89, 2003