{"id":35335,"date":"2015-02-27T17:43:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T22:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=35335"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:26:10","slug":"fernanda-sibilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/fernanda-sibilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernanda Sibilia: The Tango, Fileteado<\/em>, and Freedom From Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

While some artists and designers have to go out of their way to find inspiration\u2014venturing out to museums or into breathtaking natural settings to rekindle their creative spark\u2014Argentinian jewelry maker Fernanda Sibilia<\/a> says \u201cinspiration is easy in Buenos Aires\u201d where she has her studio. It\u2019s in the Abasto district, named for the Mercado de Abasto<\/em><\/a>, which was the main fruit and vegetable market for the city for nearly a century. Now a fashionable mall, it remains a focus of tradition and vibrant urban life for Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

\"Fernanda<\/a><\/p>\n

Fernanda observes that Buenos Aires offers many layers of inspiration\u2014natural, architectural, and cultural. \u201cThe sky is blue almost every day, and the trees have a different color each season,\u201d she says. \u201cMy favorite month is November, when our trees bloom\u2026Jacaranda, Palo Borracho, and Tipas, one after the other.\u201d This vivid natural palette is rivaled only by the colorfully decorated buildings of the fileteado porte\u00f1o<\/em> style<\/a>, where entire facades are adorned with elaborate ribbons, fanciful dragons, and floral arabesques. The spirit of fileteado<\/em> also finds its way into the patinated floral surfaces of some of Fernanda\u2019s jewelry.<\/p>\n

\"Embossed<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Fileteado<\/a><\/p>\n

Buenos Aires, rue Jean Jaures 709 (Paseo del Filete)\u00a0fa\u00e7ade painted by Tulio Ovando, Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Fernanda\u2019s Abasto neighborhood is also associated with the blossoming of the tango<\/a> in Buenos Aires, a sensuous tradition of music and dance that can be glimpsed in some of her designs where the gestural twisting and layering of metals produces alluringly sinuous forms. She says that she \u201cfeels like an alchemist\u201d when combining the qualities of different metals, and \u201clove[s] mixing the green of patina, the red of copper, the yellowish brown of brass, and the iridescences of oxides.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Cerro<\/a><\/p>\n

Whatever the influences on her work, Fernanda makes an intriguing distinction between modes of inspiration, saying, \u201cI try to be near art rather than fashion. This makes me enjoy simple things without being aware of trends, so I\u2019m aesthetically independent.\u201d Essentially, she\u2019s pursuing a timelessness in her designs, steering them away from the mercurial influence of fashion, avoiding the limited shelf life of ever-shifting trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Argentinian jewelry maker Fernanda Sibilia says \u201cinspiration is easy in Buenos Aires.\u201d From blooming Jacaranda to colorful buildings and the people bustling about them, Fernanda\u2019s art reflects the vibrant culture that surrounds her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":35555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[557,223,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43249,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35335\/revisions\/43249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}