Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 12/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art paper, glossy. Fine 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 included. Numbered work, hand-signed, on the front and back.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been 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 from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious school of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Based today in the Landes region for thirteen years, Agathe has established 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, testifying to her rapid ascent and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous private collections worldwide.

Agathe’s palette favors deep shades of black and blue, a discreet chromaticism in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and acrylics with breathtaking intensity, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs trouble with kaleidoscopic abstractions, submerging us in calm sensations, reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness, which was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems pace her universe with a lyricism characteristic of 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 involved 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 is 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 the field of contemporary art.

Jacqui Ottoman 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 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 ineffable, 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, opening a passage toward the unconscious.

I place this will into the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with light, blue crackles in contact with black, or illuminates 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, arousing pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner, unrevealed aspects.

A meticulous rapport between my hands and the pigments, the charcoals, the ballpoint pen, and the paints, by depositing matter onto paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, 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 ineffable intensely compressed, subtly stirred, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces metamorphose the observer by their strength. The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction; 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 my works create in the viewer. It is two sensitivities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It’s a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating new links between Us, within us.

The viewer then becomes 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 allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take root, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul appears, elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. An exacting experience.

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

"Mental 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 certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle, and remain thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Psychopathology of General Clinical, page 146.

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