Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 14/15

This artwork is part of the artist's "COLLECTION PARTAGÉE". Glossy fine art paper. Art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, not framed, and will include a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist. Numbered work, hand-signed, on the front and back.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been listed at Sotheby's since 2021.

Artist biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a multidisciplinary French artist whose talent extends from 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 in French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Today based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an up-and-coming figure in the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have fetched at auction three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, embedding her presence in numerous private collections worldwide.

Agathe’s palette favors deep tones of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oil paints and acrylics with breathtaking intensity, tending 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 kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness, which was our origin. Her hundreds of poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection entitled "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 is imbued with new depths.

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 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. Experiments she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep connections between psyche and body, weaving dialogues between 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 inner reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I embed this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles in contact with black, or shines by itself. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, freed from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects unrevealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and the pigments, the charcoal, the ballpoint pen and the paints, by depositing matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result—a heightened singularity.
Thus I 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 you did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable intensity, intensely compressed, subtly stirred, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces metamorphose the observer by their strength. The emergence of a distinctly unique imprint, a lyric 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 evoke in the viewer. These are two sensitivities meeting, not 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 becomes a creator in turn, giving life to the work in an alchemy of psychic resonances.

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

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited, these psychic resonances align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of their soul appears, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine the human minds, sharpen the souls and for emotions to find an echo, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome of this encounter.

"Psychological suffering is linked to all that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or waiting for psychic inscription. The human being does not suffer only because of events, or 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 clinical general, page 146.

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