Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 14/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art glossy paper print with a grainy texture. 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. Edition numbered, hand-signed, front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraph print in fine art.
Agathe Toman is listed by Sotheby’s since 2021.

Artist's biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious 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.
Now established in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed by Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid ascent and acceptance among prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous private collections worldwide.

Agathe’s palette favors the deep tones of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and intensely vibrant 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, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disrupt with kaleidoscopic abstractions, flooding us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism characteristic of her work. A first collection titled “You will have to learn to smile again” will be published in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also 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 absorbs new thicknesses.

Agathe does not dissociate 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’Œil, 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 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 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 imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a passage toward the unconscious.

I place 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 illuminates by itself. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, free from imitation, eliciting pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these unspoken inner aspects.

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

There is always something you did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable intensity, intensely compressed, subtly teased, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces metamorphose the observer by their strength. The emergence of a clearly 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 melt into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works evoke in the viewer. It is two sensitivities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating new connections between Us, within us.

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

I embark on 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, these are psychic resonances that align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul appears, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine the human mind, sharpen the souls, and for emotions to find an echo, for words to 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 waiting for psychic 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 remain thus adrift." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Pathology of General Clinical, page 146.