Constantin Nitsche – La Valse des Fleurs

In the basement rooms of the Hôtel de Montfaucon, he exhibits around twenty works specially created from his Marseille workshop.
Constantin Nitsche's paintings are sensitive constructions in which characters and settings from his daily life mingle with fictional objects and situations, with references taken from the history of modern and classical art or cinema.
Each of these productions is born from a clever balancing act through which the artist continually replays his relationship with painting and the world.
Like him, the painted subjects exist only on the edge, searching for 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 impenetrable.
In the rooms with luminous ceilings reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the works follow one another like so many epiphanies arising from the artist's memory, embarked on a choreography whose movement replays Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers.