Agathe Toman - Orange Sunset - XL

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION". Photographic art print on glossy paper with grain. Winter 2025.
Signature bottom right. Numbering 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 buyer. The photograph is sold without a frame to be shipped rolled.

Artist Biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talents span painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studying at the prestigious École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and several 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 has established herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have gone to auction three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in numerous 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 acrylics of stunning intensity, 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 their kaleidoscopic abstractions, immersing 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 due in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is 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 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 focal points 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 prestigious publications, including Forbes, L’Oeil, and Elle, marking her notable impact on 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 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 anchor this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles in contact with 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, independent of imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not yet revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoals, the ballpoint pen, and paints, as matter is deposited 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 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 indescribable that 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 identities. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, forging new connections between Us, within us.

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

I invite 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, psychic resonances align and harmonize into the same symphony, a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm becomes noticeable. 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 result of that encounter.

"Psychic 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 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 psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.

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