Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 15/15

This work is part of the artist's “SHARED COLLECTION.” Fine art glossy paper print with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, not framed, and will include a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist. Editioned work, hand-signed, with the front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraph print in fine art.
Agathe Toman is 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 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 for thirteen years, Agathe asserts 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 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 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, oils, and acrylics of striking intensity, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas wields a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, done with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction. Agathe’s photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, enveloping us in calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that existed at our beginning. Hundreds of her poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled “You will have to learn to smile again” is released 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 bears new thickness.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. She centers 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.

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 examine how they operate 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 introspective reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I embed 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 lights up on its own. We are in 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 inner, unrevealed aspects.

A meticulous kinship 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, to breathe a part of me into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable intensely compressed, subtly teased, which commands and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a distinctly 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 create in the viewer. These are two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, forging new bonds between Us, within us.

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

I undertake 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, psychic resonances align in a single harmony, a dialogue begins to take hold, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphic imprint of their soul unfolds, 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, so that words 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, page 146.