Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is not framed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be included with it. A numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back. Very high-quality pigment-based digigraph print.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been listed with Sotheby’s since 2021.

Artist biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans 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 fashion stylist in French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Today established in the Landes region for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious artistic circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep shades of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils and acrylics with startling intensity, which tend 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 disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that was at our origin.
Her hundreds of poems rhythmize her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled “You will have to learn to smile again” is due out in winter 2024.

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

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 axes of reflection 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 prestigious publications, including Forbes, L’Oeil, and Elle, marking her notable impact in the field of contemporary art.

Jacqui Ottoman 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 psyche and 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 inexpressible, 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 passage toward the unconscious.

I anchor this will in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with light, where blue crackles in contact with black, or lights up on its own. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, freed from imitation, evoking pure emotion, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and the pigments, the drawing char, the ballpoint pen and the paints, by depositing matter on paper or on canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
Thus I 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 indescribable intensely compressed, subtly stirred, which subdues and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction, my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of me.
I say that my creations are “materializations of psychic states,” human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to melt into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the observer. These are two sensitivities meeting, not two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating new links between Us, within us.

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

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

If the observer accepts to be invited, psychic resonances align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle, a rhythm becomes felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

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

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

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