Exhibitions
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
ROME, Italy—11 May 2019
On behalf of Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Diego Grammatico and Giovanna Marinelli invite Cardillo to talk as part of Rome Video Game Lab.
From Zak McKracken to House of Dust
Architecture is a story that constructs reality. It is not just something physical but contains metaphors and surreal elements. In video games, architecture is so powerful that it even distorts the idea that the user has of reality. Architecture and video games are projections of what we want to see of an abstract ideal.
Antonino Cardillo, Rome Video Game Lab, Rome, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Theatre 11. Photography: Danilo Balducci.
Royal College of Art
LONDON, UK—22 Jan 2019
On behalf of the students of the RCA School of Architecture Interior Design Programme, Yara Boulos and Riccardo Rizzetto invite Cardillo to talk as part of the talk series Inside/Out.
The making of Rome's Off Club
Vision. The intuitive function: from psychical subject to physical object
Construction. Language as the House of Being: toward an etymology of architectural words
Individuation. The afterward detection: the temple inside the sacred fence
Antonino Cardillo, Inside/Out, London, RCA School of Architecture, South Kensington, Lecture Theatre 1. Photography: Riccardo Rizzetto.
Mitte/Rand
BERLIN, Germany—21 Nov 2017
By invitation of Stephan Burkoff and Jeanette Kunsmann, Tim Berge interviews Cardillo.
Mitte/Rand Salon 01 mit Antonino Cardillo
Antonino Cardillo ist ein Architekt mit außergewöhnlichem Werdegang und nicht weniger kontroversen Positionen. Über seine Arbeit spannt sich ein Nebel, der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Wahrheit und Illusion verschwimmen lässt. Am Dienstag, dem 21.11.2017, sprach Tim Berge beim ersten Mitte/Rand Salon in die Marienstraße mit Antonino über seine Anfänge, seine Haltung zur Antike und die Sexualität der Architektur.
Antonino Cardillo, Mitte/Rand Salon, Berlin, Marienstraße 10. Photography: Markus Hieke.
Heinze
BERLIN, Germany—23 Nov 2017
Cardillo is keynote speaker of the Heinze Architektour Kongress.
Vaults, Grottoes, Arches, and Polychromy
“Language is the house of Being, in its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.”—Martin Heidegger
Antonino Cardillo, Heinze Architektour Kongress, Berlin, STATION-Berlin, Hall 3. Photography: Marcus Jacobs.
The Trail Blazers
TRAPANI, Italy—20 Apr 2017
Federico Chiarello and Antonio Mistretta, with Diego Grammatico, interview Cardillo on ZAK Radio.
Antonino Cardillo
“The most dangerous thing to do was to come back.”
Antonino Cardillo, ‘The Trail Blazers’, Trapani, ZAK Radio studio.
Triennale
MILAN, Italy—2 Apr–12 Sep 2016
By invitation of Beppe Finessi, Cardillo showcases his work at the XXI Triennale: through a selection of 50 works the exhibition Stanze. Altre Filosofie dell’Abitare presents a history of Italian interior design from the 1920s to the present day.
House of Dust
Extremely beautiful metaphysical spaces, rooms that seem to speak of layer upon layer of memories, colour palettes never before seen in interior architecture: a new author who has carved out a place entirely his own in the history of this discipline within just a few years.—Beppe Finessi
![Beppe Finessi, Stanze. Altre Filosofie dell'Abitare, [exhibition], Milan, XXI Triennale di Milano, Palazzo della Triennale.](stanze-altre-filosofie-dell-abitare/beppe-finessi-exhibition-stanze-xxi-triennale-salone-del-mobile-2016-milan.jpg)
Beppe Finessi, Stanze. Altre Filosofie dell’Abitare, [exhibition], Milan, XXI Triennale di Milano, Palazzo della Triennale.
Goethe-University
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany—1 Dec 2015
By invitation of Chris Dähne, Frederike Lausch and Bettina Rudhof, Cardillo talks as part of the talk series Constructed Realities. Guest lecture: Carolin Höfler.
Visualisierung / Faked Reality: Die Traumhäuser Von Antonino Cardillo
Projektvorstellung von Antonino Cardillo, Vortrag von Carolin Höfler und anschließende Diskussion in der Reihe Constructed Realities \ Konstruierte Realitäten. Zum Verhältnis von medialen Praktiken und der Konzeption von Architektur des Kunstgeschichtlichen Instituts an der Goethe—Universität in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Architekturmuseum und dem Deutschen Institut für Film, Frankfurt a.M.
Antonino Cardillo, Constructed Realities, Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Architekturmuseum. Photography: Chris Dähne.
Sir John Soane's Museum
LONDON, UK—13 Sep–11 Oct 2014
By invitation of Abraham Thomas, Cardillo showcases his work at the Breakfast Room.
Space & Light: A pop-up exhibition
As part of the London Design Festival 2014 we have invited six artists and designers whose work incorporates the theme of space and light to exhibit their latest work as part of this pop-up exhibition. Showing here are a collection of one-off pieces and never-before-seen products. The display features work by Paul Schutze, Ab Rogers, Antonino Cardillo, Sebastian Bergne, Mineheart and Tiipoi.
John Soane, Façade of no. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 1812. Photography: Antonino Cardillo, 2014.
Architectural Association
LONDON, UK—20 Nov 2013
By invitation of Alexandra Savtchenko-Belskaia, Cardillo talks as part of the ‘Intermediate Unit 2’.
House of Dust
Hot on the heels of our Sicilian love affair, Intermediate 2 presents an evening to transport us once more to the stone island's spectacular sensuous atmosphere and rich cultural syncretism. The House of Dust takes its influences from primordial caverns, renaissance grottos and nymphaea at Rome's Villa Doria Pamphilj. Materiality, colour and light evoke an archaeological architecture—a ceiling of rough plaster is the colour of bare earth and the palest pink light evokes dawn and flowers—the colour of beauty that dies. The House breathes light through spaces in a balanced sequence of compression and dilations.—Alexandra Savtchenko-Belskaia
Antonino Cardillo, ‘Intermediate Unit 2’, London, AA School, New Soft Room, 36 Bedford Square. Photography: Marco Ponzianelli.
Architectural Association
TRAPANI–PALERMO, Italy—1–4 Nov 2013
By invitation of Ana Araujo and Takero Shimazaki, Cardillo talks as part of the ‘Intermediate Unit 2’.
The Language of Flowers
This year ‘Intermediate Unit 2’ will focus on spatial experiences that enhance awareness of our senses and emotions. Our main source of inspiration will be the enigmatic Villa Palagonia—a baroque icon located on the northern coast of Sicily, whose originality and eccentricity has fascinated personalities such as Goethe and Sir John Soane.—Ana Araujo
1st Palermo Villa Witthaker, Villa Igea and San Cataldo Church
2nd Bagheria Villa Palagonia
3rd Tonnara di Scopello Drawing Workshop with Willem de Bruijn
4th Erice Daedalus
‘Intermediate Unit 2’, Tonnara di Scopello, AA School, field trip to Sicily. Photography: Antonino Cardillo.
RAI Radio 3
ROME, Italy—6 Jun 2013
Andrea Penna interviews Cardillo inside the House of Dust for the primetime Italian broadcast ‘RAI Radio 3’.
Radio 3 Suite
“But you lied! Art is a lie.”
Antonino Cardillo, ‘RAI Radio 3 Suite’, Rome, House of Dust.
Architectural Association
HOOKE PARK CAMPUS, UK—22 Oct 2012
By invitation of Ana Araujo and Takero Shimazaki, Cardillo talks as part of the ‘Intermediate Unit 2’.
‘Intermediate Unit 2’, Dorset, AA School, Hooke Park Campus. Photography: Antonino Cardillo.
Victoria & Albert Museum
LONDON, UK—17–25 Sep 2011
By invitation of Suzanne Trocmé, Cardillo design a Postmodern Cafe inside the 1970s Exhibition Road entrance (demolished in 2014).
The London Design Festival 2011
To complement the V&A’s keynote exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–90, the London Design Festival invites you to the specially commissioned Postmodern Cafe, designed by architect Antonino Cardillo at the Design Festival’s dedicated entrance on Exhibition Road.
Aston Webb, Exhibition Road Screen, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1909, demolished in 2014. Photography: Antonino Cardillo, 2011.
Chelsea College of Art
LONDON, UK—15 Nov 2010
By invitation of Ana Araujo, Cardillo discusses the work of his practice, particularly on the relation between the light in architecture and computer-generated imagery.
Antonino Cardillo, London, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts. Photography: Simone Greggi.
University of Palermo
PALERMO, Italy—24 Jan 2010
By invitation of Antonietta Iolanda Lima, Cardillo talks as part of the course of ‘History of Contemporary Architecture’.
Antonino Cardillo, ‘History of Contemporary Architecture’, Palermo, University of Palermo, Faculty of Architecture. Photography: Antonino Cardillo.
Wallpaper* Future 30
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands—Sep 2009
By invitation of Ellie Stathaki and Jonathan Bell, Cardillo showcases the model house commissioned by Wallpaper* on the occasion of the 2009 Architects Directory award.
4th International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam
At a time of uncertainty in the global housing market, the Wallpaper* Future 30 show that innovation is within reach of every aspiring client, bringing fresh architectural thinking from around the world into the expansive sprawl of the modern city.
Antonino Cardillo, ‘Model 17’, Wallpaper* Future 30, Rotterdam, Chabot Museum. Photography: Ellie Stathaki.
John Foxx
LONDON, UK—27–31 Jul 2009
By invitation of John Foxx, Cardillo exhibits his work in the group exhibition DNA.
John Foxx DNA
The exhibition featured work by visual artists, film-makes, illustrators, Manga comic artists and musicians who have been inspired by different aspects of John Foxx’s 30-year career. They include films by Alex Proyas, Jonathan Barnbrook, Antonino Cardillo, Japan’s Macoto Tezka, electro pioneer Gary Numan, and animator Ian Emes, alongside prints by Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran), one of Tokyo’s most famous Manga artists Reiko Okano, Karborn, and John Foxx himself.
The Horse Hospital, London, Bloomsbury.
Artindex
ST-PETERSBURG, Russia—Mar–Nov 2008
By invitation of Sergei Kovaliov, Cardillo showcases his work in the group exhibition Architects. Designers 4.
Архитекторы. Дизайнеры 4
Публикуются портфолио современных архитекторов и дизайнеров, организаций и фирм, осуществляющих проектную и проектно-строительную деятельность как в России, так и за рубежом. Представляет практический интерес как для широкой аудитории, так и является реальным инструментом для специалистов инвестиционного-строительного бизнеса и оформления интерьера.
Popov Central Museum of Communications, St-Petersburg, Palazzo Bezborodko. Photography: Florstein.