Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 14/15

This work is part of the artist’s "SHARED COLLECTION". Fine art paper, glossy.
Art photography with grain. Photograph taken 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. Edition numbered, hand-signed, on the front and the back.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been listed with Sotheby’s since 2021.

Artist bio:
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 École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne 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.
Now based 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 gone to auction three times, testifying to her rapid ascent 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 blacks and blues, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oil paints, 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, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
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 due 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 bears new thickness.

Agathe does not detach 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 of her 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 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 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 path to the unconscious.

I anchor this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles in contact with 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, eliciting pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoals, ballpoint pens, and paints, by depositing matter onto 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 it with myself, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This intensely compressed, subtly stirred inexpressible, which 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 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 immediacy. I regard them as active beings, forging new connections between Us, within us.

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

I invite a path toward a new vision of one’s Being, to oneself, to the world, and to 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 take shape, a rhythm becomes perceptible. An anamorphosis of their soul emerges, 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 for emotions to find an echo there, so that words resonate.
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 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 certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical, page 146.

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