Rafael Cardoso

Rafael Cardoso Denis (born June 4, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian writer and art historian.

Live and act

Cardoso is the great-grandson of the art collector, USPD politician and banker Hugo Simon from Berlin, who went into exile in 1933. His mother was the niece of the poet Lúcio Cardoso (1912–1968) and came from an important family in Minas Gerais .

Rafael Cardoso grew up in the USA from the age of five and studied art history at Johns Hopkins University as well as at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and in London, where he received his doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art . In 1996 he became a professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and then professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro . He was also known as a curator of important exhibitions. In 2012, he curated From the Margin to the Edge: Brazilian Art and Design in the 21st Century at Somerset House in London. Today he lives in Berlin, where he wrote a book about the emigration history of the Simon family and published it in 2016. Another biographical work on the history of Hugo Simon was published in 2018, in which he wrote about Simon's exile as a contributor.

Cardoso published numerous works on the history of Brazilian art from the 19th century to 1930, on the theory of design as well as four novels as of 2018, of which Sixteen Women appeared in 2013 and The Legacy of the Silkworms in 2016 in German translation.

Works

Novels

• O remanescente . 2016, ISBN 978-8535928136 .
  • The legacy of the silkworms. Story of a family . Translated from the English by Luis Ruby. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002535-7 .
• Entre as Mulheres (2007) (German edition: Sixteen women. Stories from Rio , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2013).
• Controle Remoto (2002).
• A Maneira Negra (2000).

Art history works

• Uma Introdução à História do Design (2000) (standard work in 3rd edition)
• Design para um mundo complexo (2012)

Editing

• together with Anna-Dorothea Ludewig: Hugo Simon in Berlin. Places of action and thinking spaces. Berlin, Leipzig, Hentrich & Hentrich 2018, ISBN 978-3-95565-274-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Author information from Fischer Verlag , accessed December 7, 2013

Web links

• Literature Festival Berlin 2014