Constantin Nitsche - The Waltz of the Flowers

In the basement rooms of the Hôtel de Montfaucon, he exhibits some twenty works specially created in his Marseille studio.
Constantin Nitsche's paintings are sensitive constructions in which characters and settings from his everyday life mingle with fictitious objects and situations, and with references drawn from the history of modern and classical art and cinema.
Each of these stagings is the result of a skilful balancing act through which the artist continually re-enacts his relationship with painting and the world.
Like him, the subjects he paints exist only in the breach, in search of their rightful place, affected by the places they inhabit.
Animals, still lifes or human beings - his wife, his children, Joseph, an artist friend - are as if suspended in space and time, ethereal, their gaze inscrutable.
In rooms with luminous ceilings reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, the works follow one another like so many epiphanies from the artist's memory, embarked on a choreography whose movement would replay Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers.

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