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.
Cardillo's 'From Zak McKracken to House of Dust' lecture summary
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.
Sala Workshop 1, Teatro 11, Cinecittà Studios
Antonino Cardillo at the Teatro 11 of Cinecittà Studios. Photography by 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.
Cardillo's 'The making of Rome's Off Club' lecture summary
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
Lecture Theatre 1, RCA School of Architecture, Kensington Gore
Antonino Cardillo at the Lecture Theatre 1. Photography by 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.
Mitte/Rand, Marienstraße 10
Antonino Cardillo at the Mitte/Rand Salon. Photography by Markus Hieke.
Heinze Congress
BERLIN, Germany — 23 Nov 2017
Antonino Cardillo is a keynote speaker at the Heinze Architektour Congress.
Cardillo vortrag auf dem Heinze Architektour Kongress in Berlin
Kann ein Architekt über Entwürfe und die Bildsprache hochauflösender Architekturdarstellungen Berühmtheit erlangen? Dem sizilianischen Architekten Antonino Cardillo ist dies mit der Serie der "Imagined Houses" gelungen. In der Annahme, es handle sich um reale Bauten, wurde er 2009 von Wallpaper zu einem der weltweit bedeutendsten Architekten gekürt. Zwischen Betrugsvorwürfen und überschwänglichem Lob agiert er in einer Nische des Phantastischen und Entrückten. Die hochpräzisen und meisterlich bearbeiteten Renderings zeigen auf, wie Virtuelles als neue Realität gedeutet werden kann. Ein Hauch surrealer Fiktion, der die Zuordnung real/irreal erschwert, umgibt alle seine Arbeiten, so auch das "House of Dust" oder seine "Four Grottos".
10:30 Antonino Cardillo: Vaults, Grottoes, Arches, and Polychromy
11:15 Thomas Willemeit: Dream. Design. Deliver.
14:15 Mark Jenewein: Graz loves Berlin
17:00 Prof. Meinhard von Gerkan: Faszination Tegel
Hall 3, STATION-Berlin, Luckenwalder Str. 4—6
Antonino Cardillo at the Heinze Congress. Photography by Marcus Jacobs.
The Trail Blazers
LOCOGRANDE, Italy — 20 Apr 2017
Federico Chiarello and Antonio Mistretta, with Diego Grammatico, interview Cardillo on ‘The Trail Blazers’, ZAK Radio.
ZAK Radio studio, Locogrande, Trapani, Italy
Antonino Cardillo on ‘The Trail Blazers’, ZAK Radio.
Triennale
MILAN, Italy — 2 Apr–12 Sep 2016
By invitation of Beppe Finessi, Cardillo showcases House of Dust 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.
Stories of other rooms
The exhibition begins with a brief historical overview, introducing the subject and placing it historically through stories about the great achievements of past great masters for whom interior architecture was their first professional sphere and a privileged place for their observations on architecture Gio Ponti, Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, Carlo De Carli, Vittoriano Viganò, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Leonardo Savioli, Toni Cordero, as well as other major C20th Italian cultural players who, even just at particular times, conceived and realised housing concepts and projects BBPR, Angelo Mangiarotti, Vico Magistretti, Ignazio Gardella, Marco Zanuso, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Vittorio Gregotti, Gae Aulenti, Nanda Vigo. Works by architects who have expressed their thoughts, skills and visions of the world around us though interior architecture will be exhibited such as, for example, Michele Bonino/Coex, Antonello Boschi, Calvi Merlini Moya, Guido Canali, Gabriella and Massimo Carmassi, Gianfranco Cavaglià, Carla Ceccariglia, Massimo Curzi, Cherubino Gambardella, Antonino Cardillo, Luciano Giorgi, Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, Johanna Grawunder, Decio Guardigli, Guido Morpurgo and Annalisa De Curtis, Francesco Pasquali, Daniele Rossi, Italo Rota, Alessandro Scandurra, UdA, Stefano Testa/Cliostraat, Bruno Vaerini, Francesco Venezia.
Palazzo della Triennale, Viale Alemagna, 6
Stanze. Altre filosofie dell’abitare, XXI Triennale di Milano.
Goethe-University
Deutsche Architekturmuseum
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany — 1 Dec 2015
By invitation of Chris Dähne, Frederike Lausch and Bettina Rudhof, Cardillo talks on the Houses for No One series.
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.
18:00 Einführung: Chris Dähne und Frederike Lausch
18:15 Projektvorstellung: Antonino Cardillo (Architekt Trapani/Italien)
19:00 Gastvortrag: Carolin Höfler (Technische Hochschule Köln)
19:30 Diskussion \ Moderation: Chris Dähne und Frederike Lausch
Deutsche Architekturmuseum, Schaumainkai 43
Antonino Cardillo at the Deutsche Architekturmuseum.
Sir John Soane's Museum
LONDON, UK — 13 Sep–11 Oct 2014
By invitation of Abraham Thomas, Cardillo showcases the Min sculptures inside cabinet of Sir John Soane's Breakfast Room.
Space & Light: a pop-up exhibition as part of London Design Festival 2014
To his contemporaries, Sir John Soane was known as an architect who pushed the boundary of architecture and design. He broke from tradition to create his own interpretation of the classical form and was an advocate of utilising the latest technology in his work. Soane has been called the 'master of space and light'. 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.
Sir John Soane's Museum, 12 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Sir John Soane’s Museum. Photography by Antonino Cardillo.
Architectural Association
LONDON, UK — 20 Nov 2013
By invitation of Alexandra Savtchenko-Belskaia, Cardillo talks on House of Dust.
Antonino Cardillo 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
Venue: New Soft Room
Intermediate Unit 2 Open Lecture
18.00 House of Dust
19.00 Film screening Luchino Visconti The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), starring Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, 185 minutes, colour.
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, 36 Bedford Square
Antonino Cardillo at AA School of London. Photography by Marco Ponzianelli.
Architectural Association
TRAPANI-PALERMO, Italy — 1–4 Nov 2013
By invitation of Ana Araujo and Takero Shimazaki, Cardillo talks to the students of ‘Intermediate 2’ about Sicily and Dionysian through the interpretations of Goethe, Wagner and Nietzsche.
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
Field trip
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
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, Journey to Sicily
AA Journey to Sicily, Tonnara di Scopello, Italy. Photography by Antonino Cardillo.
RAI Radio 3 Suite
ROME, Italy — 6 Jun 2013 — 21.30
Andrea Penna and Monica D’Onofrio interview Cardillo at House of Dust for the primetime Italian broadcast ‘RAI Radio 3 Suite’.
House of Dust, Via Piemonte, Rome, Italy
Antonino Cardillo on ‘RAI Radio 3 Suite’.
Architectural Association
HOOKE PARK CAMPUS, UK — 22 Oct 2012
By invitation of Ana Araujo and Takero Shimazaki, Cardillo talks to the students of ‘Intermediate 2’ about the topic of inexact quality.
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, Hooke Park Campus, Dorset
Hooke Park Campus. Photography by Antonino Cardillo.
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.
Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
University of Palermo
PALERMO, Italy — 24 Jan 2010
By invitation of Antonietta Iolanda Lima, Cardillo talks to the students of the course of ‘History of Contemporary Architecture’.
Faculty of Architecture, University of Palermo
Antonino Cardillo at the Faculty of Architecture of Palermo.
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.
Chabot Museum, Museumpark 11
Antonino Cardillo house 17 at the Chabot Museum. Photography by Ellie Stathaki.
John Foxx
LONDON, UK — 27–31 Jul 2009
By invitation of John Foxx, Cardillo showcases Ellipse 1501 House and the Tales of Light video.
John Foxx dna exhibition
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, Colonnade, Bloomsbury
The Horse Hospital.
Artindex 08
ST-PETERSBURG, Russia — Mar–Nov 2008
By invitation of Sergei Kovaliov, Cardillo showcases Let There Be More Light, Birnbeck Island, Ellipse 1501 House and Canto Sospeso projects.
Alexander Stepanovich Popov Central Museum of Communications, Pochtamtskiy Pereulok, 4
Alexander Stepanovich Popov Central Museum of Communications. Photography by Florstein.