Cardillo

Works

Paradiso

2018

"His buildings are a conglomeration of myths, fairy tales and images of different epochs and cultures. He wants to create an architecture of the unconscious, inspired by one of its greatest scholars, the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung." — Tim Berge

Off Club

ROME, Italy — Jun 2018

A walled garden of golden shadows and black mirrors.

Grottoes

2016 – 2013

"Egyptian? Greek? Roman? It doesn’t really matter, because once these ancestral images are deposited in our unconscious they are emptied of their historical specificity; as in our dreams, the only link that remains is the emotional one." — Ana Araujo

Specus Corallii

TRAPANI, Italy — Sep 2016 — Sala Laurentina, Cathedral of Trapani

The coral cave is a refuge from the world.

Antonino Cardillo, Illuminum Fragrance, London Mayfair, 2015.

Colour as a Narrative

LONDON, UK — Apr 2015 — Illuminum Fragrance / Wallpaper* Magazine

Behind a portal in London, a small grey grotto.

Crepuscular Green

ROME, Italy — Apr 2014 — Mondrian Suite Gallery

A greenish dawn as seen from the depths of the river.

House of Dust

ROME, Italy — Mar 2013

Classical orders and golden proportions celebrate dust.

Arches

2014 – 2009

"In their unlikely arrangement the arches follow a spatial logic akin to the one of the picturesque garden. They trick your expectations; they point to another world." — Ana Araujo

Antonino Cardillo, MIN, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 2014.

Min

LONDON, UK — Sep 2014 — Sir John Soane's Museum

The arch derived its figure from the Phallus.

Arcade

MILAN, Italy — Apr 2012

The arch rediscovers value of connection and separation.

Postmodern Cafe

LONDON, UK — Aug 2011 — Victoria & Albert Museum / Wallpaper* Magazine

Homage to Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-90.

Antonino Cardillo, Model House Wallpaper* Architects Directory, 2009.

House for Wallpaper*

LONDON, UK — Feb 2009 — Wallpaper* Magazine

“The world’s 30 most talented young architectural practices.”

Frames

2011 – 2009

"Nella fase realizzativa si attua un processo di decantazione di segni e una sistematizzazione del metodo così efficace che il linguaggio appare chiarito e rafforzato." — Massimo Locci

Antonino Cardillo, Der Spiegel apartment, Monteverde, Rome, 2011. Photography by Antonino Cardillo.

For no one

2011 – 2007

"Cardillo has created a labyrinth of truths and illusions. There is no one truth – reality: it doesn’t exist. Antonino Cardillo has built it." — Jeanette Kunsmann with Stephan Burkoff