Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #012

First digital artwork by artist Agathe Toman generated by AI. Digital drawing. Pixelated details, and use of Benday dots across the entire work. Fine art photo glossy paper.
Signature bottom right. Edition number bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back.
Printed in France. Certificate of authenticity completed and signed by the artist.
Sold without a frame.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST AGATHE TOMAN
LISTED WITH 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 establishes herself as a rising figure in 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 salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep shades of black and blue, colors that are the essence of her creation. Her paintings use pure pigments and intensely vibrant acrylics, while her drawings, made with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe’s photographs, with extraordinary depth, as well as her kaleidoscopes of poetry, 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 incorporate 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 axes of reflection 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 deals with the notion of the links between the psyche and the body. Their modes of functioning together within their environments, the connections they build, and the elaboration of the tangible and intangible vibrations 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 an introspective reflection.

I place this intent in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles at the touch of 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 any imitation.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and the pigments, charcoals, the ballpoint pen and the paints applied on paper or on 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 making of your memory.
There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable 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 merge 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, forging new connections between Us. The viewer himself becomes a creator of the work, it finishes coming to life.
I commit to a path toward a new vision of Being, of the world, of oneself, and of others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align into a single symphony, a dialogue begins to unfold. An anamorphosis of their soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience. A 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, so that words resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of that encounter."

« The psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjective symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting psychical inscription. The human being does not suffer only because of events, or because of certain thoughts, but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and thus remain in wandering. » René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical, page 146.