Dominic Couturier

Dominic Couturier scratches canvases, drags them across the ground, and ages them with fire. Tar or ignition has the effect of blackening the canvas. Spread out on the ground, it receives jets of black coffee. The artist uses saffron in the mixtures he concocts to obtain yellows close to ochre. It all begins with a gesture. And each painting involves a series of gestures.

Collectively, they represent the artist's consciousness in space, at a given moment in time. Dominic Couturier's recent multimedia paintings are dense impasto, works that involve movement, collage, drips, and inventions. His resource is the availability of things.