De profundis - What can we take from Gautier's works 200 years after his birth ?

These future architects, graphic designers, and sculptors have not, in effect, only read the best known publications such as Le Capitaine Fracasse, the Roman de la momie or the collection Emaux et camées.They have retained Fortunio, Le Club des Hachichins, Le Chevalier double, Deux Acteurs pour un rôle, Paris futur, Ménagerie intime… rare texts where the students have uncovered sensuality, fantasy, small touches that transform reality, like the fantastic more vigorously expressed, they knew to feel  poetic power condensed into a few words made by this lover of the french language.
Invited to investigate the external universe invoked by Gautier, young men quickly understood the predominant part of the imagination, there understand by apparently precise descriptions, and revived an author who was not anchored in the past; instead he was modern, provocative, brilliant: that was Gautier himself. Designs, photos; sculptures, “needle work”, retracing the students’ progressive discovery of this private Balzac, the only one of these rarities to have never been entered into the house in Passy.