“Je Marchais Pieds Nus Dans L’Étang” (translation: “I Walked Barefoot in the Pond”) features selected works from De Cotiis’s new series of 50 unique pieces. Credit Matt Harrington, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery

In Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s New York City space, cast white bronze and hand-painted sculpted Murano glass come together in an installation that toes the line between the concrete and the mimetic. Aggressively organic and just a little sci-fi, Vincenzo De Cotiis’s multi-piece spatial composition harkens back to Monet’s later landscapes, which became increasingly abstract as cataracts took his sight. “Je Marchais Pieds Nus Dans L’Étang,” on view through February 13, is as immersive as a painting: a lily pond, reimagined through sculpture.

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Originally previewed at Milan Design Week, the show arrived in New York late last year fully realized—a cohesive, three-dimensional abstracted environment composed of 50 unique works. Moving through the show is, as the title (translated: “I Walked Barefoot in the Pond”) suggests, something like wading through an imagined marshy dreamscape full of reflections and forms that rise and shift with the changing of one’s vantage point. There’s no fixed visual anchor here, no narrative; a specially curated ambient soundtrack deepens the spell, inviting the viewer to experience the work at a meditative........

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