Joyful visions of Stano Pekár

Joyful visions of Stano Pekár

Martin Mešša

In our recollections for the 80th anniversary of ÚĽUV, we must include the charismatic Stano Pekár (1938 Unín, Skalica district – 2014 Bratislava), who worked with this institution from the mid-1960s. As a born Záhorie native, he had a well-developed sense of humour and unusual self-reflection. The public knew him in two basic situations: first as a documentary photographer and artist, and later as an artistic wood-carver and a member of the SPOROFA (Society of Developed Fantasy) club, of which he was a long-serving president. He might have lived in Bratislava, but he worked with work and whittled new objects in Studienka (Malacky district), near a little lake where he had a cottage.