Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #012

First digital work by artist Agathe Toman generated by AI. Digital drawing. Pixelated details, and the use of Benday dots across the entire work. Glossy fine art photo paper.
Signature at the bottom right. The numbering at the bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back.
Printed in France. Certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist.
Sold unframed.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST AGATHE TOMAN CÔTÉE 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 a rising figure in the contemporary art scene, admired both nationally and internationally.

Cited at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, signaling her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, notably Art Paris, have earned her enormous success, solidifying her presence in private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors the deep tones of black and blue, colors that are the essence of her creation. Her paintings use pure pigments and intensely colored acrylics, while her drawings, made with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe’s photographs, with unprecedented 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 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 focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health and the environment. These axes of reflection 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 deals with the notion of the links between the psyche and the body. Their joint functioning within their environments, the connections they build as well as the crafting of palpable 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 are imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to an introspective reflection.

I situate this intention within the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles at the contact 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, untethered from imitation.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and the pigments, charcoals, ballpoint pen and paints applied to paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat, and the result is always strange. I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to imbue it with myself, for the creation of your memory.
There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. The unspeakable.
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 lies in the vibrations that my works create in the observer. These are two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate identities. It is a living process. I regard them as active beings, creating new links between Us. The observer becomes a creator of the work as it comes to life.
I commit to a path toward a new vision of Being, to the world, to oneself, and to others.

If the viewer accepts the invitation, psychic resonances align into a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle. An anamorphosis of one’s soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience. A presence intense and powerful. An exacting experience.

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

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