Constantin Nitsche
La Valse des fleurs

His paintings are sensitive constructions in which characters and settings from his daily life blend with fictional objects and situations, and with references drawn from the history of modern and classical art and cinema. Each of these presentations is born from a skillful 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, and human beings—his wife, his children, and Joseph, a friend—are 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 flow like epiphanies arising from the artist's memory, embroiled in a choreography whose movement reenacts Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers.