Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 14/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art matte paper.
Fine 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. Work numbered, hand-signed, on the front and back.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been listed at 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 painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years spent as a stylist with 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 département for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

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

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

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction. Agathe’s photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was at our origin. Her hundreds of poems pace her universe with a lyricism characteristic of 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 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 infused with new thicknesses.

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 axes of reflection 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 it into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:"
My work explores the deep links between psyche and body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I question how they function 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 to the unconscious.

I place this intent into the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles against black, or shines 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, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous alignment between my hands and the pigments, soft pastels, the ballpoint pen and paints, by depositing matter onto paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, resulting in an uncontrolled outcome. An increased singularity.
I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, and to infuse myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable intensely compressed, subtly stirred, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their force. The emergence of a distinctly unique imprint, a lyrical 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 blend into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are 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 bonds among Us, within us.

The viewer then becomes a creator, bringing the work to life 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 now elects to be invited, these are psychic resonances that align and harmonize in a single symphony; a dialogue begins to take shape, 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, to sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo in them, for words to resonate there.
What matters is what the work mobilizes within us, and the outcome of this encounter.

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

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