Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #013 3/15

Second digital work by artist Agathe Toman, generated by AI. Fine art photographic print on glossy photo paper. Numbering at bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back.
Art photographic print. Certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist.
Sold unframed.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST AGATHE TOMAN LISTED WITH SOTHEBY’S since 2021:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent extends from painting to poetry, including drawing and photography. Based between Hossegor and Paris, Agathe is emerging as a rising figure in the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned on three occasions, demonstrating her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in numerous private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep shades of black and blue, colors that are the essence of her work. Her paintings use pure pigments and intensely charged acrylics, while her drawings, executed with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe’s photographs, with extraordinary depth, as well as her poetry kaleidoscopes, enrich her universe with an abstract language that defines her oeuvre.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis, which she has pursued for three years. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate profound psychological dimensions into her art.

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

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.

"MY VISION:

My work focuses on the notion of the links between the psyche and the body. Their modes of functioning together within their environments, the connections they build, and the elaboration of the discernible and indescribable vibrations that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature, and the relationship between the individual and their environment. My works carry emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection.

I place this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with light, blue crackles at the touch of black, or lights up on its own. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, my drawings, and my photographs are each an absolute creation, freed from imitation.

A meticulous intimacy between my hands and the pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and paints applied on paper or on canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, and the result is always foreign. I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse myself into it for the creation of your memory.
There is always something you did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable.
The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, 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 merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it resides in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. Two sensibilities meet there, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. I see them as active beings, forging new links between Us. The viewer also becomes a creator of the work, which then comes to life.
I invite a path toward a new vision of Being, of the world, of oneself, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited now, psychic resonances align and harmonize into a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle. An anamorphosis of their soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to sharpen human minds, to sharpen souls and for emotions to find an echo in them, for words to resonate there.
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 subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or waiting for psychical inscription. The human being suffers not only because of events or certain thoughts but because certain processes within them have not found a mirror, an echo, listening, or a receptacle and remain thus adrift." - René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Psychopathology of General Clinical, page 146."} }```{