Agathe Toman - Cloud #3 - 3/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art gloss paper. Art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is not framed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be attached. A numbered work, hand-signed, on the front and back.
Agathe Toman, the artist, has been 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 ranges from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist with French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to devote herself exclusively to her artistic creation.
Now based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe has established herself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, marking her rapid ascent and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous private collections worldwide.

Agathe’s palette favors deep tones of black and blue, a subtle chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and intensely vibrant acrylics, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, offering echoes to her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disturb with their kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a recollection of a perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled “You will have to learn to smile again” will be released in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in studying transactional analysis psychoanalysis, 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 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 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 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 psyche and 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 carry emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a passage toward the unconscious.

I embed this intent in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles in contact with black, or shines 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 unrevealed inner aspects.

A meticulous rapport between my hands and pigments, charcoals, the ballpoint pen, and paints, by depositing matter onto paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. A heightened singularity.
Thus I work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse it with myself, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable intensely compressed, subtly teased, that subdues and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a decidedly 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 lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensibilities meeting, not two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating unprecedented links between Us, within us.

The viewer in turn becomes the 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 the world, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align and harmonize into a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle in, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of the 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, refine souls, and let emotions find an echo, allowing words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of this encounter.

“And psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjective symbolization. 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 in wandering.” René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Pathology of General Clinical, page 146.