Agathe Toman - Orange Sunset - XL

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Artwork using photographic print on glossy paper with grain. Winter 2025.
Signed bottom right. Numbered bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back. Printed in Biarritz, France. An authenticity certificate completed and signed by the artist will also be provided to the purchaser. The photograph is sold without a frame so it can be mailed rolled.

Artist Biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent extends from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious 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 devote herself exclusively to her artistic creation.
Having settled 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 numerous 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 extraordinarily intense 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 unsettle with kaleidoscopic abstractions, inundating us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning. Hundreds of her poems punctuate her universe with a lyrical quality that characterizes 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 absorbs 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 areas 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.

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 and transforms it into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep links between the psyche and the body, weaving dialogue between mind and matter. I question how they operate in their environment, the connections they form, and the vibrations, both perceptible and ineffable, that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature, and the relationship between the individual and their environment. My works carry emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I anchor this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles against 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 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 work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to imbue them with myself, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable intensely compressed, subtly stirred, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. 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 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. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating new links between Us, within us.

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

I commit to a path toward a new vision of Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, these are psychic resonances that converge and harmonize in a single symphony; a dialogue begins to settle, a rhythm is 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 the souls, and for emotions to find an echo there, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome of this encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing 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 some processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain in wandering.” René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.

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