Jiří Pačinek | Czech Republic | web

* in Litoměřice (Czechoslovakia) on July 3rd in 1972

photo: Gabriela Svobodová


photo: Jiří Koudelka

In this day and age you will hardly find such a Master glass maker as Jiri Pacinek is. This talented glass artist-craftsman is captivating many glass art collectors and admirers. He has started his career in glass field as early as in the 1990, when he had joined Chribska 1414 Glass Works. Followed by many years of developing his talent in Glass Works Ajeto he was given chance to work with renowned World Glass Art legends as Bořek Šípek, René Roubíček, Leon Applebaum, Louis Sakalowski and many others. He had never forgotten though about his own designs which he had at that time pursued in his free time. Glass Works Ajeto provided him with an extraordinary opportunity to shape his own individual style harvesting it in his Studio and Glass Works, which was built in 2007. Here he applied his wide ranging potential and started with creating large-scale, technically demanding decorative sculptures along with daily use wholesome glass objects, like vases and bowls, and so on. During short time period of working in his private glass works his glass art entered into private collections and became the collection of design studios and galleries itself. These art works and many others you can see and buy in Gallery in historical building at T. G. Masaryka avenue in Novy Bor, Czech Republic Europe. This Gallery features the “Friends of Glass” exposition, where many other glass artists will present themself.

He studied at Glass apprentice centre in Nový Bor from 1987 till 1990 in the section of glass blowing and hand shaping. He started his career of glass blower in Czech famous Chřibská glass works focusing mainly on free-hand shaped glass. In 1991 he was called to army and after return back he started to work in Chřibská glass works again. June 3rd in 1992 was exceptional and fundamental day in glass career and contemporary art creation of Jiří Pačinek for he was admited to work as glass-blower in Ajeto (at that time named as Novobor) in Petr Novotný‘s team. In September 1995 he left to USA for 3 months working residency by Leon Applebaum glass studio in Rochester. After return back to Ajeto he was appointed as master of glass team. He is regularly attending significant world glass events - symposiums, conferences and other proffesion and art meetings in Europe and overseas, for example International Glass Symposium in Nový Bor, Glasstage in Zwiesel and many other events in different countries. He has also won several prizes, for example in glass competition “Craft and Art“ organised by Glass museum in Nový Bor it was second prize in 1994, first prize in 1997 and third prize in 2006. Jiří Pačinek‘s glass sculptures combine exceptional body force and sculptural way of glass making with delicacy and sense of detail and its accuracy. Jiří Pačinek found Ajeto and Petr Novotný as unique spring of inspiration and knowledge and he made the best of this special oportunity to work in Ajeto and created own easily recognizable style of creation. Besides family he has been putting all free time to glass and Ajeto glass works. He spent many days working in Petr Novotný’s home glass workshop, where he got familiar with production of ancient glass replicas as well as in Ajeto, where he could create astounding glass sculptures. In the end Lindava became his home and few years ago he opened own glass art gallery right in his living house. Up to now Jiří Pačinek has created glass for many world known glass artists and designers, among others: Miluše Roubičková and René Roubíček, Bořek Šípek, Leon Applebaum, Rony Plesl, Sam Schanzer, Louis Sakalovski, Charles Parriott, Anna Torfs, Antonín Manto, Maria Roosen, Arnout Visser, Filip Houdek, Jiří Tesař, Tomas Kysela, Lasvit (Luděk Hroch, Petra Rehorová, Táňa Dvořaková, Jitka Kamencová Skuhravá), Evans Ateliér, Crystal Caviar, and many others. This makes his artworks such typical, recognizable and unique. In own creation he focuses to various glass lines - demanding sculptures mainly human or animal figure inspired as well as domestic glass units like vases, bowls, glasses, plates and other items. Many of them became a part of several museum and privat collections or they are being produced in limited or numbered editions. At the end of the spring of 2008 leaves the glassworks Ajeto and perform their old dream to work in their own hotworks. Jiří Pačinek opened a new gallery in Nový Bor in T. G. Masaryk street on September 2010. As Jiří is a versatile glass artist you can find all sorts of artistic glass objects form bowls, vases, decorative glass objects to large sculptures. Beside the glass you can admire large format photography depicting Jiri’s glass objects.