Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #012 - 11/15

First digital work by artist Agathe Toman generated by AI. Digital drawing. Pixelated details, and use of Benday dots across the entire work. Fine art photo paper with a glossy finish.
Signature at the bottom right. 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 COTÉE 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 up-and-coming figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Coted at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have gone to auction three times, bearing witness to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in numerous 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 powerful acrylics, while her drawings, made with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe’s photographs, of extraordinary depth, as well as her poesy kaleidoscopes, 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 deep 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 lines of thought 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 the connections between psyche and the corporeal. Their modes of functioning together within their environments, the connections they build as well as the elaboration of the discernible and indescribable vibrations that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature and the relation between the individual and their environment. My works carry emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection.

I embed this will into 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, my drawings, and my photographs are each an absolute creation, free from imitation.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and the pigments, charcoal, Bic ballpoint pen and paints applied on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat, and the result is always foreign. I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse myself into it for the creation of your memory.
There is always something you did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable thing.
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 fuse with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. I regard them as active beings, creating new bonds between Us. The viewer becomes a creator of the work as it comes to life.
I invite a journey toward a new vision of Being, of the world, of oneself, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited now, psychic resonances align into a single symphony, a dialogue begins to establish. An anamorphosis of their soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience. A powerful and intense presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and let emotions find an echo, so that words resonate there.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of this encounter."

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing 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 them have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and thus remain wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Clinical Psychopathology, general clinic, page 146."