Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 14/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION". Fine art glossy paper.
Art photograph with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is unframed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be included. Numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been listed by 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, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Couture fashion school 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.
Now based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated on both national and international stages.

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, including Art Paris, have brought immense success, consolidating her presence in private collections around the world.

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

Her drawings, executed with a Bic ballpoint pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe's photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm the universe around her with a lyrical quality that characterizes her work. A first collection titled "You will have to learn to smile again" will be released in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis in transactional analysis, which she has been pursuing for four years in Paris. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate very deep psychological dimensions into her art, imbued with new depths.

Agathe does not dissociate 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 the psyche and the body, weaving dialogues between the spirit 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 anchor this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles in contact with black, or illuminates alone. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, free from imitation, eliciting 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 on canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, 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 ineffable intensely compressed, subtly stirred, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, barks, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. The emergence of a decidedly 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 those of others to merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensitivities that meet and 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 then becomes a creator, giving life to the work in an alchemy of psychic resonances.

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

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited now, these psychic resonances align in a single harmony, a dialogue begins to settle in, a rhythm becomes perceptible. 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 sharpen human minds, to 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 outcome of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or waiting for 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 thus wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.

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