Vincenzo De Cotiis: "I want the viewer to move among the reflective sculptures as if walking on water."

The suspended world of Vincenzo De Cotiis on display in New York. An interview with the artist on the dialogue between light, matter, and perception.

Hypnotic, suspended, disturbing . After their Milan preview during the last Salone del Mobile, the works of artist and architect Vincenzo De Cotiis arrive at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York with Je Marchais Pieds Nus Dans L'Étang, a solo exhibition inspired by Claude Monet's water lilies. "The water lily, a motif both serene and restless, returns in elongated and distorted forms, floating, expanding, dissolving in space," says De Cotiis at the exhibition opening on November 13th. "Their surreal and skeletal stems reach beyond reality, as if searching for something invisible."