Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 10/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art glossy photographic print with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be included. Editioned work, hand-signed, front and back. High-quality pigment-based fine art digigraphic 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 French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Parisian Couture School and years working as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to concentrate exclusively on her artistic creation.
Based today in the Landes for thirteen years, 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, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art 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 of striking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas holds 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, submerging us in calm sensations, a recall of perfect weightlessness that preceded us. Hundreds of her poems rhythm her universe with a lyrical quality defining her work. A first collection titled “You will have to learn to smile again” is due out winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis in transactional analysis, 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 takes on new thicknesses.

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 reputable publications, including Forbes, L’Oeil, and Elle, marking her notable impact in 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 into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep connections between the psyche and the 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 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 and opening a passage to the unconscious.

I frame this intention within the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, 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, free from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner, unrevealed aspects.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoal, the ballpoint pen and paints, by laying down matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
I thus 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 intensely compressed, subtly stirred inexpressible, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a distinctly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction, 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 resides in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. It is two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, forging new connections between Us, within us.

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

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

If the viewer now accepts the invitation, psychic resonances align and harmonize into a single symphony, a dialogue begins, a rhythm is felt. A lyric anamorphosis of one’s soul unfolds, 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 keen the souls, and for emotions to find an echo there, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome 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 because of events or certain thoughts, but because some processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and thus remain in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.