​​Oblikovalec nakita 
​Jewelery design

" ​Ko kitim človeka , kitim prostor, ko kitim prostor kitim človeka  " 
" When I adorn a man, I adorn a space and when I adorn space, I adorn a man "

Huberto Široka se je rodil v Zagrebu, del osnovne šole naredil v Parizu in del na Bledu, a njegova zgodba se je začela razpletati v osemdesetih letih v Ljubljani. Svojo identiteto je iskal v filmu, poeziji, plesu, fotografiji in kiparstvu, a so ga vsa iskanja na koncu pripeljala nazaj h koreninam. Njegova družina se je z izdelovanjem nakita ukvarjala že tri rodove. Sam pravi: »Moja svoboda in resnica, pred katero sem poskušal ubežati, se je skrivala pred domačim pragom!« Podal se je v iskanje znanja in razumevanja nakita tudi zunaj delavnice staršev in se je več let izpopolnjeval pri različnih mojstrih. Spoznaval je svet izumirajoče obrti in odkrival nova obzorja. Pridobil je diplomo zlatarja in tako temeljito pripravljen odprl svojo delavnico na Bledu, kjer je opaziti prepletanje številnih svetov izdelovanja nakita, srebrokovaštva, medaljerstva in sanj. Huberto Široka pri svojem delu ves čas ohranja intenzivno pozornost do sveta, do novih poti, novih metod in zvijač v želji po napredku in izboljšavah. Nakitu poskuša povrniti njegov osnovni namen, kar mu uspeva s prepletom odličnega obrtnega srebrokovaškega znanja in ustvarjalnega potenciala, ki črpa iz vseh dob človeštva. Številna priznanja, kot so nagrade in razstave doma in v tujini, razume dvoplastno – kot potrditev za svoje delo in navdih za nova spoznanja o nakitu. Njegovo oblikovanje poskuša s sodobno govorico nakitu povrniti njegovo osnovno vlogo. Z nakitom uporabniku in gledalcu sporoča, da tu ne gre več zgolj za obliko, temveč za sredstvo; ne gre več za izdelovalca, ampak za pripovedovalca: »Pripovedujem o tem, kar čutim. Iz izdelovalca se spremenim v pripovedovalca. Nakit je včasih ščitil človeka pred njim samim in pred zunanjim svetom, bil je sredstvo, in ne forma.«

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Huberto Široka was born in Zagreb. He finished a few years of primary school in Paris and a few in Bled, but his story really started to unfold in the 80s in Ljubljana. He was searching for himself in film, poetry, dance, photography and sculpture, but in the end the roads led him back to his roots. His family had been already making jewellery for three generations. Široka says: »My freedom and my truth, which is was trying to escape from, was actually hiding at home! « He set off to learn and understand the art of jewellery more outside his parents' workshop - he was training with various masters for many years, he was discovering the world of endangered craft and was broadening his horizons. He graduated as a jeweller. With a lot of new knowledge and experience he decided to open his own workshop in Bled, where you can feel the interaction of different worlds of making jewellery, silver-smithing, minting and dreams. In his work Huberto Široka constantly maintains the attention to the world, new ways, methods and tricks in wish for progress and perfection. The interlacement of extraordinary knowledge of silver-smithing and creative potential based on different eras of mankind help him to regain the jewellery its basic purpose. He perceives numerous acknowledgements such as awards and exhibitions at home and abroad from two different perspectives– the confirmation of his work and the inspiration for new discoveries on jewellery. His designs along with modern touch give the jewellery its primary role. His jewellery tells the user and the auditor that it is not about the shape, but about the mean, not even about the designer but about the narrator.  »I tell about my feelings. I transform from the designer to the narrator. Jewellery used to protect a person from himself and the world, it was a mean, not a form. «