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.

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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.

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.

AA School

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

AA School

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

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 Suite

Incontro con l'architetto Antonino Cardillo

“But you lied! Art is a lie.”

AA School

HOOKE PARK CAMPUS, UK—22 Oct 2012

By invitation of Ana Araujo and Takero Shimazaki, Cardillo talks as part of the ‘Intermediate Unit 2’.

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.

University of Palermo

PALERMO, Italy—24 Jan 2011

By invitation of Antonietta Iolanda Lima, Cardillo talks as part of the course of ‘History of Contemporary Architecture’.

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.

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.

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.

Artindex

ST-PETERSBURG, Russia—Mar–Nov 2008

By invitation of Sergei Kovaliov, Cardillo showcases his work in the group exhibition Architectural Dialog 08.

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.