Agathe Toman - CLOUD #3 - 2/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION". Fine art glossy paper. Art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021. The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is unframed, and a certificate of authenticity will be attached, completed and signed by the artist. Numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back. Agathe Toman is listed at Sotheby's since 2021.

Artist bio:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian and Czech descent, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talents span from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing and photography. After studies at the prestigious École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years spent as a stylist with French couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Now based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby's since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, securing her presence in numerous private collections worldwide.

Agathe's palette favors deep tones of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oil paints and intensively powerful acrylics, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction. Agathe's photographs challenge with kaleidoscopic abstractions, engulfing us in calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that existed at our beginning. Hundreds of her poems pace her universe with a lyricism characteristic of her work. A first collection entitled "You will have to learn to smile again" is set to release in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis in transactional analysis, which she has pursued for four years in Paris. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate very deep psychological dimensions into her art, which takes on new thicknesses.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. She focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health, the environment and education. These focal points are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity and personality.

Her work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, marking her notable impact in the field of contemporary art.

Agathe Toman continues to fascinate and inspire a global audience, offering through her works a window into the complexity of the human experience, as she perceives it and transforms it into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep connections between the psyche and the body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I question their modes of operation in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and imperceptible, that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature and the relationship between the individual and their environment. My works are imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a gateway to the unconscious.

I frame this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles when it touches black, or it lights up by itself. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, detached from any imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, drawing media, the Bic pen and paints, by depositing matter onto paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable intensely repressed, subtly stirred, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. The emergence of a distinctly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction, my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of myself.
I say that my creations are “materializations of psychic states,” human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it resides in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensitivities meeting, no longer two separate identities. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I consider them living beings, creating unprecedented bonds between Us, within us.

The viewer becomes, in turn, a creator, giving life to the work in an alchemy of psychic resonances.

I guide a path toward a new vision of one’s Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of their soul appears, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. An exacting experience.

I want my works to refine the human mind, to sharpen the souls and for emotions to find an echo there, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting psychic inscription. The human being suffers not only because of events, or because of certain thoughts, but because some processes in him have not found a mirror, an echo, an listening receptacle and remain in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical, page 146.