#FERDI PARIS TV#
This short documentary was broadcast by the Dutch TV channel, AVRO, on national television a year later. The images of the insect-like jewels fade into footage of real insects. The 16 mm film, Ferdi (1955), made by Shinkichi, shows Ferdi welding and fashioning her jewelry as they were eagerly bought up by American and Japanese tourists. Ferdi continued to make her iron jewelry pieces that were powerful and symmetrical in appearance, something she found mesmerizing studying the body of insects.
In 1953, Ferdi and Shinkichi set up home together in Paris and a year later they toured Italy, Spain and North Africa on a Triumph 650 cc motorbike. Go ahead, he said, then disappeared to a café leaving me to work out what to do.” He agreed and showed me where everything was. Of her first meeting with Japanese-American sculptor, she said: “I always watch how others work if I’m interested in learning the technique (.) He was welding and I asked if I could have a go. She started off by taking part in the sculpture workshops run by sculptor, Ossip Zadkine, who taught at the Académie Colarossi in de Rue de la Grande Chaumière in the artists’ quarter Montparnasse. She was one of the many young artists that migrated and were attracted to the idiosyncratic energy and the seemingly endless possibilities of the French capital. At Tajiri’s studio, in 1952, Ferdi learned metal-working and welding techniques using an acetylene torch it was the welding technique she further perfected to create her welded jewelry.Īs a young Dutch woman of only twenty-three years old, Ferdi left for Paris in 1950 to develop her interest in fine art. Through Simon Vinkenoog she was introduced to Shinkichi Tajiri, a Japanese-American sculptor, who later became her life partner. Ferdina Jansen was born on 10 October 1927 in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
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