Agathe Toman - Cloud #3 - 4/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art glossy paper.
Art photograph with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is not framed, and an authenticity certificate, completed and signed by the artist, will be attached. Numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back.
Agathe Toman is listed with 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 painting and poetry, as well as sculpture, drawing and photography. After studies at the prestigious School of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years spent as a stylist with French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Settled today 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, testimony to her rapid rise 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 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 breathtaking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, carrying the viewer out of the visible. The canvas wields a power, reflecting her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disturb through kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, a reminiscence 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 entitled “You will have to learn to smile again” is due for winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also profoundly 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, imbued 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 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 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 their modes of functioning in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and indescribable, 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 embed this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles against black, or glows on its own. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, freed from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner, unrevealed aspects.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and pigments, the drawing leads, the ballpoint pen and paints, by depositing matter on paper or on canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
Thus I 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. That ineffable intensity, intensely compressed, subtly intensified, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. 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 observer. 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, creating new links between Us, within us.

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

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

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, these psychic resonances align and harmonize in one same symphony, a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm becomes perceptible. An anamorphosis of one’s soul emerges, 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 hone 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 this 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 does not suffer 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 remain thus adrift." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Pathology of General Clinic, page 146.