Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 13/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION". Fine art textured paper. 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 attached. Limited edition work, hand-signed, front and back. Agathe Toman is listed with Sotheby’s since 2021.

Biography of the artist:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a multidisciplinary French artist whose talent spans painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years spent as a stylist within 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 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, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance within 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, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oil paints, and acrylics with breathtaking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, created with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction. Agathe’s photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, reminiscences of a perfect weightlessness that was our beginning. Hundreds of her poems pace 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 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 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 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 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 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 operation in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and imperceptible, that arise.
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, opening a passage toward the unconscious.

I inscribe this will within the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles on contact with 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, freed from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these hidden inner aspects.

A meticulous knot 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, 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 teased, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent elements, metamorphose the observer by their force. The emergence of a decisively unique imprint, a lyric 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 blend into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it resides in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. It is two sensibilities that meet, not 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 viewer becomes, in turn, a 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 now, these are psychic resonances that align and harmonize into a single symphony; a dialogue begins to settle in, a rhythm begins to be felt. An anamorphosis of their 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 mobilizes in us, and the result of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to all that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting 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, listening, a receptacle, and remain thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.

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