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For his debut exhibition with the gallery, Oranges et Lavande, German painter Constantin Nitsche presents a series of paintings in which everyday scenes are transformed into enigmatic compositions that hover between fiction and reality.

Nitsche’s paintings are inspired by his immediate surroundings: people and interiors, social interactions, animals and nature, street scenes and still lives. These are not rendered literally but distilled — through the filter of memory and act of painting — into atmospheric compositions with few, if any, references to time or place. Interiors are sparse and …