Stéphane Gautier is one of those "extraordinary" creators that one comes across off the beaten track of contemporary art, yet who uses a language that is unusual and direct. His work is located on the fine line between design and art.
Beyond its forceful nature, however, Stéphane Gautier’s world opens up spaces for reflection that hold a mirror up to our childhood, with its memories and its universal dimension, its symbols and the sacralisation it sparks off in us. Stéphane Gautier created his first picture at the age of 13, deciding to stick and paint his toys on a canvas. This first provocative gesture and artistic genesis, which, rediscovered years later, arouses emotion and recognition in all those who see the emotional objects that marked their past. 

The art of Stéphane Gautier is permanently shifting. By moving an object from one context to another, re-injecting the stereotypical symbols of childhood into an adult setting, he turns away from all traditional codes of art (pictures, paintings, sculptures, drawings) only to reappropriate them. And it is by way of this ironic distance that this intuitive creator invites us to a deeper consideration of the means of representation, of the effectiveness of advertising and propaganda, and finally of the sacralisation and misappropriation of childhood nostalgia.