Petr Stacho (born in 1965 in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic) earned his reputation as an excellent glass artist in the early 1990s while still a student at the Academy of Arts in Prague. Yet it is his extraordinary devotion to glass that has made him stand out as a glass artist as he maintains the highest standards of glassmaking craftsmanship and purity of expression.
Stacho carefully chose the best of the many hot-glass techniques in order to create objects of sculptural character decorated in a sophisticated manner while all the lines and shades of the surface are the result of thoughtful designs and elaborate work with liquid glass. His objects may at first sight look as though they have been painted on, but they are actually coiled and covered with lines, scraps and sheets of coloured glass treated with heat. His major works of the late 1990s and the early years of the new millennium are distinguished by a tendency towards monumental forms and the brightening of the substance of the glass itself.
Glass art combines hard physical work with craftsmanship, manufacturing technology with subtle mental processes. These are the aspects that make glass art so attractive and also so hard to master. Stacho apparently chose the triangle as a symbol of intuitive search for perfection and a balance of all these elements of glass art – the ideal perfection of the artist’s vision which is being constantly disturbed and interfered with by human imperfection and the random interventions resulting from the unpredictable nature of the glass itself. It is well known that glass always follows its unpredictable essence, and only master artists come close to commanding it.
Basic geometrical forms are invaded by the artist’s intent while retaining a striking resemblance to patterns defined originally by Mother Nature – melting ice or freezing liquid, meteorite minerals or transparent substances, all colliding in a dynamic environment of physical natural relations and human imagination.
EDUCATION
1980-1984 Glassmaking School in Kamenický Šenov, specialization: glassmaking
1984-1985 Preservation of monuments workshop in Mladá Boleslav, focused on window restoration
1988-1994 Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, studio of creative glassmaking
1993 Fellowship study in Gent, Belgium, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2007 Head of the Glasscutting Department at the Kamenický Šenov Glassmaking School
EXHIBITIONS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC ,EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
2014
14th International Art Glass Festival in Karlovy
Vary
Glass in glasshouse,gallery Welti, Dusseldorf, Germany
KILN CAST 2,Železný Brod,Czech rep.
Hangzhou art fair 2014 ,Hangzhou,China
Art of glass biennial,Shanghai,China
2015
Art gallery MOSER,Prague,(Czech republic).
Exhibition of teachers and selected students works of Glassmaking school in Kamenický Šenov
GLASS AND PAINTINGS-regional museum in DĚČÍN,(Czech republic)
with Petr MENŠ
EUROPEAN GLASS FESTIVAL in Wroclaw (POLAND)
BOHEMIAN GLASS ART COLLECTION,Bao gallery,Beijing (CHINA)
CITY ART GALLERY in Lodz (POLAND)
CONTEXT ART, Miami (USA)
2016
Muzeum KARKONOSKIE , Jelenia Gora (POLAND)
Art Palm beach (USA)
Galeria sztuky LEGNICA (POLAND)
NO LIMITS exhibition-tour around Europe
SOFA-by Ai Bo gallery, Chicago (USA)
2017
GLASOBJECTEN- Glass gallery BROFT,Leerdam (HOLLAND)
Petr Stacho- GLASS FINE ART, Glass gallery STOELTING, Hamburg (GERMANY)
7-th international glass festival in Asselborn (LUXEMBOURG)
International glass exhibition in Sulzbach-Saar (GERMANY)
2018
Colours of light-Minsk (BELARUS)
Kulturbrucke,glass exhibition in Fratres, (AUSTRIA)
Glas zur zeitenwende, Theuern castle, (GERMANY)
Secret of glass, Alpha BB centrum,Prague,(CZECH.REP.)
International glass art biennial, Haacht, (BELGIUM)
2019
6 visions of glass,regional museum in Děčín, (CZECH REP.)
Colours of glass,gallery Portheimka,Prague, (CZECH REP.)
Tribute to nature,solo exhibition in museum of ancient glass,Zadar,(CROATIA)
Senate of Czech republic,Prague, (CZECH REP.)
8-th international glass festival in Asselborn (LUXEMBOURG)
2021
Online exhibition „HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD“ ( GREAT BRITAIN)
GLASS 49 , Virtual exhibition, 50 years anniversary of Habatat gallery, Michigan, (USA)
9-th international glass festival in Asselborn (LUXEMBOURG)
International online exhibition ” UNITY AND TOLERANCE”, Glass and ceramic depart., Nevsehir university, (TURKEY)
2022
Exhibition UNIVERSE, Museum of glass and jewellery in Jablonec n/N,(CZECH REPUBLIC)
Exhibition ROK SKLA 2022, Svatoš gallery, Kostelec nad černými lesy, (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Online international republic exhibition on ÇOMÜ Faculty of Fine Arts, Çanakkale,(TURKEY)
16-th International glass exhibition in Sulzbach-Saar, (GERMANY)
Online exhibition The end is good place to start, (TURKEY)
Exhibition “ON”, Istanbul, (TURKEY)
LECTURES
BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS and DESIGN in Jerusalem (ISRAEL),2-nd international glass summer school,(class of kiln casting technique),2015
National university of Arts in Bucuresti (ROMANIA),2016
Glass furnace in Istanbul (TURKEY).2016
Kiln casting workshop on Academy of fine arts in Wroclaw (POLAND),2016
TURKEY TOUR (2017)
BEYKOZ-cold working,lecture ESKISEHIR-lecture on faculty of fine arts , Anadolu university
BURSA-lecture on ULUDAG university,demonstration of modeling and mould making
Kiln casting course in Nyborg (DENMARK),2017
Lecture on National technical university in Minsk (BELARUS),2018
Kiln casting course in Gdov (RUSSIA),2018
Residence on MIMAR SINAN university in Istanbul (TURKEY),2019
Glass furnace in Istanbul (TURKEY).2019
Kiln casting course in Corning studio (USA),2022
OTHER Date of birth: 23/06/1965 Nationality: Czech
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