Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 15/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Glazed fine art paper.
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. Edition numbered, hand-signed, front and back.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been listed at Sotheby’s since 2021.

Artist's 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 Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne 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 has established 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, signaling her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, 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, with a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and incredibly intense acrylics, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas wields a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, done with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe's photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was at our origin.
Her hundreds of poems pace her universe with a lyricism that characterizes 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 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, which is infused with new thicknesses.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. She focuses her work on critical themes such as mental health, environmental issues, 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 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 mind and matter. I question how they operate in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and inexpressible, 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 marked by emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a passage toward the unconscious.

I frame this intention within the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, 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, free from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous closeness between my hands and pigments, charcoals, the ballpoint pen, and paints, by deposition of matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. An increased 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 teased, ineffable intensity that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. 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. Two sensibilities meet, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I consider them as living beings, creating new bonds between Us, within us.

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

I guide a path toward a new vision of one’s Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align and harmonize into a single symphony; a dialogue begins to set in, a rhythm becomes perceptible. 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 allow emotions to resonate, so that words may reverberate there.
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 awaiting psychical 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, a listening ear, a receptacle, and thus remain in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.

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