Expressive shaping, intoxication with beauty of materials and combination of techniques are typical features of works by Jaromir Rybak. In his works the author joins  a sense of sculpting with interest in dramatic effects of  glass. His works show  at the same time richness of means of expression. In a single piece, he does not hesitate to blend  a penetrating expressive stylisation of form with a quantity of filigree details. A sense of clarity of simple forms is no hindrance to his ability to play a passionate game of contrast using decoration and ornaments. Rybak’s union of molten glass and moulded bronze portions of the sculptures is unique. Both materials create an integrated unit with an intrinsic tension of contrast of often almost naturalistically shaped bronze elements and decorative beauty of glass.

Many works by the author are anchored in the real world around us, he richly develops the initial inspiration and he elaborates it farther in his fantasy. That applies namely to his glass-making works, but it does not exclude his paintings and drawings. In the play of motives, he gets trapped in the whirlwind of his free imagination. He amuses himself unrestricted by rules saying “what is and what is no beautiful”, “what is allowed”, and “what is not allowed”. Besides sculptures with elements of mystery or symbolism, he presents other works typical for distinct ironic detachment. Apparent is his enthusiasm and taste for picturesque and bizarre realm of trifles. His animal figures border in their stylisation with bizarrely naïve grotesqueness. Some of them are apparently results of joyous fascination with form and creation, still others hide interpretations and parables beneath this outer layer.

Sculptures by Rybak are, at the same time, refined and though out, and they have the capability to disturb. They become unique and special artefacts, attractive in their nonconformity, provoking in their absurdity.

Mgr Ivo Křen curator of the studio glass at Východočeské Museum in Pardubice