Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #015 - XL
Photographic print with grain. Very specific and unique photographic work of the artist, like a painting, the lines are blurred, abstract and the details pixelated.
Signature at the bottom right. Numbering at the bottom left. Also on the back. Printed in Biarritz, France.
A completed and signed certificate of authenticity by the artist will also be provided to the buyer.
Sold without frame.
Biography of Agathe Toman at Sotheby's since 2021: Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans painting, poetry, drawing, and photography. Based between Hossegor and Paris, Agathe establishes herself as an emerging figure in the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.
Listed at Sotheby's since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, showcasing her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her remarkable contributions to various fairs, including Art Paris, have brought her immense success, solidifying her presence in numerous private collections around the world.
Agathe's palette favors deep shades of black and blue, colors that are the essence of her creation. Her paintings use pure pigments and acrylics of stunning intensity, while her drawings, made with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe's photographs, of unprecedented depth, as well as her kaleidoscopes of poetry, enrich her universe with an abstract language that defines her work.
Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis, which she has been pursuing for three years. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate deep psychological dimensions into her art.
Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. With unyielding determination, she focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health and the environment. These axes of reflection are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity.
His work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, marking his notable impact in 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 human experience, as she perceives it and transforms it into art.
"MY VISION:
My work focuses on the notion of links between the psyche and the body.
Their overall modes of operation within their environments, the connections they build as well as the development of the speakable and unspeakable vibrations that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature and the relationship between the individual and his environment. My works are imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to an introspective reflection.
I inscribe this will in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles in contact with black, or lights up alone. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, my drawings, and my photographs are each an absolute creation, free from all imitation.
A meticulous acquaintance between my hands and the pigments, the charcoals, the ballpoint pen and the paints applied on the paper or on the canvas. My execution techniques are never repeated, and the result is always foreign. I work thus to fix the movement of the material, the density of the light, to breathe myself into it, for the elaboration of your memory.
There is always something that we did not suspect. Something unexpected. That unspeakable.
The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, 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 that my works create in the viewer. They are two sensibilities that meet and no longer two separate individualities. It is a process that is alive. I consider them as active beings, creating new links between Us. The viewer also becomes the creator of the work, it ends up coming to life.
I commit to a journey towards a new vision of one's Being, of the world, of oneself, and of others.
If the viewer now lets himself be invited, these are psychic resonances that agree and tune into the same symphony, a dialogue begins to take hold. An anamorphosis of his soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.
I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo there, for words to resonate there.
What is important 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 blocked psychically, or awaiting psychic inscription. Human beings do not suffer only because of events, or because of certain thoughts, but because certain processes within them have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening ear, a receptacle and thus remain wandering. " René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Psychopathology of General Clinic, page 146.
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Photographic print with grain. Very specific and unique photographic work of the artist, like a painting, the lines are blurred, abstract and the details pixelated.
Signature at the bottom right. Numbering at the bottom left. Also on the back. Printed in Biarritz, France.
A completed and signed certificate of authenticity by the artist will also be provided to the buyer.
Sold without frame.
Biography of Agathe Toman at Sotheby's since 2021: Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans painting, poetry, drawing, and photography. Based between Hossegor and Paris, Agathe establishes herself as an emerging figure in the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.
Listed at Sotheby's since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, showcasing her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her remarkable contributions to various fairs, including Art Paris, have brought her immense success, solidifying her presence in numerous private collections around the world.
Agathe's palette favors deep shades of black and blue, colors that are the essence of her creation. Her paintings use pure pigments and acrylics of stunning intensity, while her drawings, made with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe's photographs, of unprecedented depth, as well as her kaleidoscopes of poetry, enrich her universe with an abstract language that defines her work.
Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis, which she has been pursuing for three years. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate deep psychological dimensions into her art.
Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. With unyielding determination, she focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health and the environment. These axes of reflection are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity.
His work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, marking his notable impact in 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 human experience, as she perceives it and transforms it into art.
"MY VISION:
My work focuses on the notion of links between the psyche and the body.
Their overall modes of operation within their environments, the connections they build as well as the development of the speakable and unspeakable vibrations that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature and the relationship between the individual and his environment. My works are imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to an introspective reflection.
I inscribe this will in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles in contact with black, or lights up alone. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, my drawings, and my photographs are each an absolute creation, free from all imitation.
A meticulous acquaintance between my hands and the pigments, the charcoals, the ballpoint pen and the paints applied on the paper or on the canvas. My execution techniques are never repeated, and the result is always foreign. I work thus to fix the movement of the material, the density of the light, to breathe myself into it, for the elaboration of your memory.
There is always something that we did not suspect. Something unexpected. That unspeakable.
The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, 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 that my works create in the viewer. They are two sensibilities that meet and no longer two separate individualities. It is a process that is alive. I consider them as active beings, creating new links between Us. The viewer also becomes the creator of the work, it ends up coming to life.
I commit to a journey towards a new vision of one's Being, of the world, of oneself, and of others.
If the viewer now lets himself be invited, these are psychic resonances that agree and tune into the same symphony, a dialogue begins to take hold. An anamorphosis of his soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.
I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo there, for words to resonate there.
What is important 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 blocked psychically, or awaiting psychic inscription. Human beings do not suffer only because of events, or because of certain thoughts, but because certain processes within them have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening ear, a receptacle and thus remain wandering. " René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Psychopathology of General Clinic, page 146.
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