Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 15/15

This work forms part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION."
Fine art glossy print on smooth art paper with a 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 piece, hand-signed, front and back. High-quality pigment-based fine art digigraph printing.
Agathe Toman is 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 extends from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Paris Chamber Syndicate of Couture school 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 for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as a rising 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 within prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, particularly 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 acrylics of striking intensity, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, carrying the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, done with a Bic pen, bear a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with quiet sensations, reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that once was our beginning.
Hundreds of her poems shape her universe with a lyricism characteristic of 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 transactional analysis psychoanalysis, 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 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 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 the mind and matter. I question their modes of operation in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and indescribable, 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 an introspective reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I embed this intention in the very materiality of my works: decidedly abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles at the touch of 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, provoking pure emotion, awakening the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and the pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and paints, by depositing matter onto paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, a non-controlled result. A heightened 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 intensely compressed, subtly stirred inexpressible that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their force. The emergence of a decidedly 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 observer. 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 links between Us, within us.

The observer 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 observer allows themselves to be invited, these are psychic resonances that harmonize and align into a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take hold, a rhythm becomes 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 sharpen human minds, refine souls, and let emotions find an echo, so that words 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 symbolization subjectivation. 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 certain processes within them have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Pathology of General Clinical, page 146.