FRANTIŠEK JAROSLAV PECKA
1878-1960
Not Without My Ghosts, Drawing Room (London) 2020
The Medium's Medium, The Gallery of Everything (London) 2019
Outsider Art Fair (New York) 2019
Topic Salon (Narod) c 1920
National House of Smíchov (Smíchov) c 1920
Clam-Gallas Palace (Prague) c 1920
Not Without My Ghosts, Drawing Room, 2020
Artists Translating Spirits, Cavin Morris Gallery, 2018
A PUBLISHED AUTHOR ON EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY, FRANTIŠEK JAROSLAV PECKA WAS A GEOLOGIST, ARCHAEOLOGIST AND PALEONTOLOGIST, WHOSE IMMERSION IN SPIRITUALIST STUDY INSPIRED AN EXTRAORDINARY BODY OF WORK.
HIS (RE)DISCOVERED PROTO-PSYCHEDELIC SPIRIT PORTRAITS AND FINGER PAINTINGS, PRODUCED IN TRANCE AND ACCREDITED TO THE DEPARTED, LED TO HIS STATUS AS ONE OF THE MOST AVANT-GARDE FIGURES WITHIN EARLY 20TH CENTURY MEDIUMISTIC ART.