Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 9/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art gloss paper photograph with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be shipped to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity will be included, completed and signed by the artist. Work numbered, hand-signed on the front and back. High-quality pigment digital fine art print.
Agathe Toman is listed at Sotheby's since 2021.

Artist Biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a multidisciplinary French artist whose talent ranges from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Parisian Fashion Chamber School and years working as a stylist with French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to concentrate exclusively on her artistic creation.
Now based in the Landes 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 art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have brought 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 stunning intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas wields a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, created with a Bic pen, are imbued with a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe's photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, enveloping us in calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that marked our beginning.
Hundreds of her poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled « You will have to learn to smile again » is released in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of transactional analysis psycholinguistics, 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 is infused 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 lines of thought 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 links between the psyche and the body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I question how they operate 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 passage to the unconscious.

I inscribe this will into the very materiality of my works: decisively abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, the blue crackles against 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, free from imitation, evoking pure emotion, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these unrevealed inner aspects.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoal, the ballpoint pen, and paints, by depositing matter on paper or canvas. My techniques of execution never repeat themselves, an uncontrolled result. A heightened individuality.
I thus work to fix the motion of matter, the density of light, to infuse myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something you did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable intensely compressed, subtly fanned, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a clearly 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 merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the observer. It is two sensibilities 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, in us.

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

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

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited, it is psychic resonances that align and synchronize into the same symphony; a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm is 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 sharpen human minds, to sharpen souls and allow emotions to find an echo, for words to resonate there.
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 waiting for psychic inscription. The human being suffers not only from events or from certain thoughts but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical, page 146.