Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #012 10/15

First digital work of artist Agathe Toman generated by AI. Digital drawing. Pixelated details, and the use of Benday dots throughout the piece. Glossy fine art photo paper.
Signature at the bottom right. Edition number at the bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back.
Printed in France. Certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist.
Sold without a frame.

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

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, reflecting her rapid rise and acceptance within 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 creation. Her paintings use pure pigments and intensely vibrant acrylics, while her drawings, made with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe’s photographs, with extraordinary depth, as well as her kaleidoscopes of poetry, enrich her universe with an abstract language that defines her work.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply committed to 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 strands 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 links between the psyche and the corporeal. Their modes of functioning together within their environments, the connections they build, and the elaboration of the tangible and intangible 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 an introspective reflection.

I put this will into the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness cohabits with clarity, where 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, free from imitation.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and the pigments, the charcoal, the ballpoint pen, and the paints applied on paper or 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, and to infuse it with myself, for the elaboration of your memory.
There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This unsayable.
The emergence of a distinctly unique imprint, 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 lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. It is two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. I consider them as active beings, creating new links between Us. The viewer becomes a co-creator of the work; it comes to life.
I invite a path toward a new vision of Being, toward the world, toward oneself, and toward others.

If the viewer chooses to be invited now, there are psychic resonances that align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to establish. 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 hone souls, and for emotions to find an echo, so that words resonate there.
What matters is what the work mobilizes within us, and the result of that encounter."

"Psychic suffering is linked to all that escapes the process of subjective symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting 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, an listening ear, a receptacle and thus remain in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.