It's all the dimension and light of Africa, its space, that you feel when you discover this painting! The colours and contrasts plunge us into a burning, powerful atmosphere. Dominique Coffignier plays with matter to carry us away with force, with warmth and with all the power towards this country and its origins.

Coffignier observes and explores everyday life. He translates his emotions into energetic paintings. Africa has reinforced the magic and power 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 the 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 55x46, 1989