Agathe Toman - Cloud #3 - 4/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art matte paper. Art photography 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. Work is numbered, 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 multidisciplinary French artist whose work spans painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, she felt the need, nine years ago, to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Now based in Landes for thirteen years, Agathe is establishing herself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned on three occasions, bearing witness to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep tones of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oil paints, and breathtaking intensities of acrylics, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, offering echo to her own experiences.

Her drawings, done with a Bic pen, are imbued with a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disrupt with kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems mark her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled "You will have to learn to smile again" is due in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is 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 is infused with new densities.

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 lines of thought 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 connections between the psyche and the body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I question how they operate within 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 steeped in emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I anchor this intention in the very materiality of my works: decidedly abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles when it touches 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 hidden inner aspects.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and the pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and paints, through the deposition of matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. An enhanced singularity.
I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse a part of me into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable intensely compressed, subtly kindled, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, a lyric 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. Two sensibilities meet, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, forging new links among Us, within us.

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

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances harmonize and align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo there, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work moves within 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 waiting for psychical 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 thus wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Clinical Psychopathology, General Clinic, page 146.