Staged City

In May 2014 I organized a group show together with Laura van Rijs in Arti et Amicitiae. In the exhibition Staged City we brought together the work of fourteen artists from different disciplines; photography, painting, drawing, film and video work and installations. Participating artists were: 
Jan Adriaans, Maria Barnas, Robbie Cornelissen, Arjan van Helmond, Pawel Jaszczuk, Lucas Lenglet, Paulien Oltheten, Pablo Pijnappel, Diana Scherer, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Batia Suter, Rogier Taminiau, Elisabeth Tonnard. 
I showed my new short film Arcadia.

Giardino Segreto

In May I go back to Gibellina, the city in the south of Sicily where I shot my first short film La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto. I want to show the film there in one of the beautiful Giardino Segreto's. There are a few in this very special town, but this one, which I like the most is an artwork, a minimal secret garden by the architect Francesco Venezia.

La Madre in Foam

In the summer of 2012 my short film La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto was on show for ten weeks at Foam in Amsterdam. Together with photos from Gibellina, the city where I made this film.

photos © Christian van der Kooy

Villa Palagonia

In the film l’Avventura from Michelangelo Antonioni the main characters of the film Sandro and Claudia go to a custom house to report the missing of their friend Anna. This scene is shot in the beautiful and strange Villa Palagonia in Bagheria near Palermo. This building designed by Palatino, has a garden which initially populated by 200 grotesque statues - giants, dwarves, hybrids - commissioned  by the villa's owner, the mad Ferdinand, Prince of Palagonia as caricatures of his wife supposed lovers. The interior of the villa was equally crazy - chairs with legs of unequal length, cushions containing hidden spikes and mirrors hung at weird angles. The cushions and chairs have gone and what is left are beautiful rooms with wall paintings all over.  I visited the villa two times and this is one of the photos I made there last year. 

Film and Architecture

Zondag 2 september zal er op de laatste dag van mijn tentoonstelling La Madre een middag in Foam plaatsvinden over film en architectuur. Kunsthistoricus Steven Jacobs zal een lezing houden over Michelangelo Antonioni en het belang van architectuur in zijn films. La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto zal nog eenmaal vertoond worden en Maria Barnas die de voice-over schreef voor La Madre zal haar nieuwe korte film Good Living laten zien. Daarna gaan Maria Barnas en ik in gesprek met Dana Linssen over onze films, onze samenwerking, Antonioni en de liefde voor architectuur.

Stills from La Madre

From the 28th of June till the 2nd of September my short film 

La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto is on show in Foam, the photography museum in Amsterdam. 

http://www.foam.org/press/2012/petra-noordkamp

Slideluck Potshow II

Cinecitta from Petra Noordkamp on Vimeo.