Elsie P. Wunderlich Medical Building “Las Brisas” Guatemala City Elsie P. Wunderlich Edificio Médico “Las Brisas” Ciudad de Guatemala

Elsie Wunderlich Nature that Survives Poetically Naturaleza que Sobrevive Poéticamente

The Art Of Elsie Wunderlich It can be spoken of in terms of musical poetic architecture. Flying buttresses exist as branches that sink into the earth… Earth? No, in the water and then, reflected, they survive visually, or more precisely, poetically. It is the pictorial poetry of the painter, but a painter that creates music whose fusion produces architecture – not of stone – but of visual poetry. And those floating, flying leaves? Elemental, dear public, lets not forget those verses of the ode to the tree: “…move your ear closer to each leaf, and you will hear the voice of God…” The work of this artist is a pure art, lyrical, in love with life, with colors that love each other and also love us; an art of painted sounds that can be seen; reflections of an angelical painter that has recently conceived the human presence within her other-wordly realm. Efraín Recinos

El Arte de Elsie Wunderlich Podemos hablar de arquitectura musical poética. Los arbotantes son ramas que se hunden en la tier… ¿tierra? No, en el agua y entonces, reflejadas, sobreviven visualmente, más bien poéticamente. Es la poesía pictórica de la pintora, pero una pintora que hace música y esa unión produce una arquitectura – no de piedra – sino de poesía visual. ¿Y esas hojas flotantes, voladoras? Elemental, querido público, recordemos aquellos versos del himno al Árbol: “…aproxima el oído a cada hoja, y oirás la voz de Dios…” El arte de esta artista es un arte puro, lírico, enamorado de la vida, de colores que se aman y que nos aman, un arte de sonidos pintados que podemos ver; reflejos de una pintora angelical que más reciente a hecho surgir la presencia humana en su mundo extraterrenal. Efraín Recinos

Elsie Wunderlich (née Padilla Ferguson) was born in

Guatemala where she presently lives and works.

When se was 14 years old she discovered here

interest in Art, and at her 16 she formally started

studying Painting, and later on, Architecture and

Sculpture. She has traveled around the world in the

search of new landscapes, for her inspiration and the

recreation of nature, thus expressing her endless

devotion towards landscape. As a result, she has

created her own shapes and colors while proposing a

Elsie Wunderlich (née Padilla Ferguson) nació en

Guatemala donde actualmente vive y trabaja.

Empezó a incursionar en el arte, a la edad de catorce

años y es a los 16 cuando empieza formalmente con

estudios de pintura y posteriormente de arquitectura

y escultura.

Ha recorrido diversas partes del mundo en busca de

paisajes nuevos a sus ojos, para su inspiración y

recreación de la Naturaleza, expresando así su

inmensa devoción al paisaje y dando como resultado

Life Cycle

2009

Acrylic, Resin and Glass

48 x 30 cms

Ciclo de Vida

2009

Acrílico, Resina y Vidrio

48 x 30 cms

brand new vision of nature, intimate landscapes,

which invite us to meditation and to the integration

of the human being: body and spirit. Her

work has been seen in art galleries and museums in

several important cities both nationally and

internationally.

Fire in the Water (Acrylic, Resin and Glass)

Fuego en el Agua (Acrílico, Resina y Vidrio)

50 x 20 x 25 cms

brand new vision of nature, intimate landscapes,

which invite us to meditation and to the integration

Her magnificent

work has been seen in art galleries and museums in

several important cities both nationally and

sus propias formas y colores que nos proponen una

novedosa visión de la naturaleza, paisajes íntimos,

que nos invitan a la reflexión y

humano: cuerpo y espíritu. Su obra ha sido expuesta

en galerías y museos en diversas ciudades

importantes a nivel nacional e internacional

Floating Leaves (Acrylic, Resin and Glass)

Hojas Flotantes (Acrílico, Resina y Vidrio)

25 x 41 x 22 cms

sus propias formas y colores que nos proponen una

ión de la naturaleza, paisajes íntimos,

y a la integración del ser

humano: cuerpo y espíritu. Su obra ha sido expuesta

en galerías y museos en diversas ciudades

importantes a nivel nacional e internacional

Floating Leaves (Acrylic, Resin and Glass)

Resina y Vidrio)

The Music of Nature (Acrylic, Oil and Linen)

Música de la Naturaleza (Acrílico,

The names Elsie Padilla Ferguson de Wunderlich, Elsie de Wunderlich or simply Elsie, belong and identify the same talent and the same painter. They didn’t appear yesterday or last week to meet the rough bullring of the national fine arts, where the sharp horns of contempt and mediocrity throw venomous horn thrusts. Elsie has been in this bloodless arena since 1983, and almost twenty years contradict that old tango: twenty years is too much. Especially when they have been supported with serious and tenacious work, without neglecting the technique and language.

.

The Music of Nature (Acrylic, Oil and Linen)

Música de la Naturaleza (Acrílico, Oleo y Lino)

2009, 24” x 28”

The names Elsie Padilla Ferguson de Wunderlich, Elsie de Wunderlich or simply Elsie, belong and identify the same talent and the same painter. They didn’t appear yesterday or last week to meet the rough

national fine arts, where the sharp horns of contempt and mediocrity throw venomous horn thrusts. Elsie has been in this bloodless arena since 1983, and almost twenty years contradict that old tango: twenty years is too much. Especially when they

supported with serious and tenacious work, without neglecting the technique and language.

Los nombres Elsie Padilla Ferguson de Wunderlich. Elsie de Wunderlich a secas. al mismo talento y a la misma pintora. No salieron ayer ni la semana pasada al bravo ruedo de la plástica nacional donde los pitones afilados del ningunmediocridad lanzan cornadas emponzoñadas. Elsie esta desde 1983 en esa arena sin sangre casi veinte años contradicen al viejo tango: veinte años es mucho. Sobre todo cuando se han afianzado en un trabajo serio y tesonero sin descuidar la técnica y

Los nombres Elsie Padilla Ferguson de Wunderlich. Elsie de Wunderlich a secas. Pertenecen e identifican al mismo talento y a la misma pintora. No salieron ayer ni la semana pasada al bravo ruedo de la plástica nacional donde los pitones afilados del ninguneo y la mediocridad lanzan cornadas emponzoñadas. Elsie esta desde 1983 en esa arena sin sangre casi veinte años contradicen al viejo tango: veinte años es mucho. Sobre todo cuando se han afianzado en un trabajo serio y tesonero sin descuidar la técnica y el lenguaje.

While from the trenches of progress the human being is preoccupied and occupied with transforming, contaminating and destroying nature without accepting or respecting the Kyoto protocol and the ecologists’ distress calls; Elsie is involved with a higher and more gratifying mission: to recreate it. Yesterday submerged naked of prejudice and convention in the “Garavitian” waters of Lake Atitlán is treacherous xocomiles (strong winds) or dressed in the colors of the “Monetian” garden in Giverny. On her incursion into that paradise with no biblical trees or original sins, she is indebted to us. She gave us her summer and fall impressions but left behind a deep immersion without a diving suit into the spring and winter of that garden, so dear to Monet, to impressionism and to universal art. Elsie doesn’t make unexpected leaps into a void or the exaggerated skips of a circus acrobat. Her path glides on a safe track and she conducts the steering wheel with a firm Grip in the midst of existential storms, formal conflicts or stumbling against the rough stones of the pictorial language. Now she comes out of traps set by flowers that devour warm colours, waters of deceptive transparencies and green hells repeated until the infinite. She has refined the hues by caressing them so much with her fingers, the blues are invented skies and in the semi-darkness of insinuated plains the presence of the atom and the galaxy blinks. She lets loose newborn leaves or those turned golden by the fire of late afternoon, to sail into sub worlds of liquid dreams in search of submerged cathedrals imagined by Debussy in other latitudes. Those relating to photographic reality sleep locked in a dark prison of virgin film, and discover, cosmonaut with his feet on the ground, the numb certainty at the bottom of the conscience: the truth can also be invented. She already knows the way, its risks and its shadows, its lights lustered by dawn and the shooting star that hurts the pupil. Her internal compass shows the right course. Here she is with her painting to communicate her emotions to us. She is the painter. She is simply Elsie.

Marco Augusto Quiroa

Guatebuenita, mayo de 2001

Mientras el ser humano desde las trincheras del progreso se preocupa y ocupa en transformar, contaminar y destruir la naturaleza sin aceptar ni respetar protocolos de Kyoto y llamados de auxilio ecologistas, Elsie se involucra en una misión más alta y gratificante: recrearla. Ayer sumergida desnuda de prejuicios y convencionalismos en las garavitianas aguas atitecas de xochomiles traicioneros o vestida de colores en el jardín monetiano de Giverny. Sobre su incursión en ese paraíso sin árboles bíblicos ni pecados originales, está en deuda con nosotros, Nos entrego sus impresiones de verano y otoño pero dejo como materia atrasada una inmersión a fondo y sin escafandra en la primavera y el invierno de ese jardín tan caro a Monet, al impresionismo y al arte universal. Elsie no da saltos inesperados al vacío ni brincos exagerados de volatín circense. Su trayectoria se desliza sobre carril seguro y maneja el timón con mano firme en medio de tempestades existenciales, conflictos formales o tropezones en los pedruscos del lenguaje pictórico. Ahora sale de trampas tendidas por flores devoradoras de colores cálidos y aguas de transparencias engañosas e infiernos verdes repetidos hasta el infinito. Ha refinado los matices de tanto acariciarlos con los dedos, los azules son cielos inventados en la penumbra de planos sugeridos parpadea la presencia del átomo y la galaxia. Suelta hojas recién nacidas o doradas en el fuego del atardecer a navegar en submundos de sueño liquido en busca de catedrales sumergidas Imaginadas por Debussy en otras latitudes. Los referentes de la realidad fotográfica duermen encerrados en celda obscura de película virgen, y descubre, cosmonauta con los pies en la tierra, la certeza adormecida en el fondo de la conciencia: La verdad también se inventa. Ya conoce el camino, sus riesgos y sus sombras, sus luces abrillantadas por el amanecer y la estrella fugaz que hiere la pupila. Su brújula interior marca el rumbo correcto. Aquí está hoy su pintura para comunicarnos sus emociones. Ella es la pintora Elsie a secas.

Marco Augusto Quiroa

Guatebuenita, mayo de 2001

Elsie's painting… is about re-creation. That is, she doesn't copy the motive literally, she causes it to undergo a transmutation of values where she removes, adds, reduces and juxtaposes shades, after all, there is a good amount of subjectivity, condition which, it's not possible to achieve the poetic phenomenon. Nature is for her, object and subject at the same time. Her sensibility for color, the fineness of her textures is determined and it shows an elegance and a gentleness that culminates in great lyrical force. By Roberto González Goiry

Moods Acrylic and Linen

Estados Anímicos Acrílico y Lino

2008, 1mt x 1mt

creation. That is, she doesn't copy the motive literally, she causes it to undergo a transmutation of values where she removes, adds, reduces and juxtaposes shades, after all, there is a good amount of subjectivity, condition without which, it's not possible to achieve the poetic phenomenon. Nature is for her, object and subject at the same time. Her sensibility for color, the fineness of her textures is determined and it shows an elegance

eat lyrical force.

La pintura de Elsie… es de recopia literalmente el motivo sino lo somete a una transmutación de valores donde quita, agrega, reduce, yuxtapone los tonos, en fin, hay una buena dosis de subjetividad, condición sin la cual, no es posible lograr el fenómeno poético. La naturaleza es para ella objeto y sujeto a la vez. Su sensibilidad para el color, la fineza de sus texturas e concluyente y demuestra una elegancia y una delicadeza que culminfuerza lírica. Por Roberto González Goiry

La pintura de Elsie… es de re-creación, es decir, no copia literalmente el motivo sino lo somete a una

n de valores donde quita, agrega, reduce, yuxtapone los tonos, en fin, hay una buena dosis de

n sin la cual, no es posible lograr tico. La naturaleza es para ella objeto

y sujeto a la vez. Su sensibilidad para el color, la fineza de sus texturas e concluyente y demuestra una elegancia y una delicadeza que culmina en una gran

Frida’s Duality Acrylic and Linen

Dualidad de Frida Acrílico y Lino

2007, 35” x 45”

Elsie Wunderlich

(Padilla – Ferguson)

Guatemalan artist , recently received Honorary Citizen by the Community of Mornico Losana in Italy for his artistic activity in that country. Elsie began to study painting and drawing at 16 years of age, and over time to have developed a very personal artistic language. Nature lover, constant source of its inspiration, making integration between humanity and Nature. He received his academic training at Francisco Marroquin University where she studied Architecture and Art History at the National School of Fine Arts and in workshops with different masters of the plastic in Guatemala, Italy and France. She has made numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, art fairs and Biennials and in prestigious universities in different cities in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, France and Italy. It is worth mentioning some of his exhibitions: Museum of Modern Art in Guatemala, Ate Paiz Biennial in Guatemala, Centenario Neruda, Chilean Embassy in Guatemala and centenary of Frida Kahlo, Mexico Embassy in Guatemala. "VIII Iberoamerican Exhibition of Painting" Meridian International Center in Washington DC, "Women for Art" MOLAA Latin American Art Museum, USA., Art Fair "Art Miami" Convention Center in Florida USA., Latin American Art Biennial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Louisiana Museum Ziegler, "Nouvelle Tendance Figurative", in Paris,. recently performed several solo exhibitions in Italy: in the year 2,011 and 2,012, at the University of Pavia, 2011 and 2012, in the Cantinone Medievale the Comune Di Pietra Giorgi, . 2012, in the Castle of Mornico Losana, and La Galeria La Pigna Rome. And in the pallazzo Certosa Cantu in Casteggio, Italy , in June 2013. In 1987 she received the prize for painting in the second National Painting Competition Shell. In October, 2,009 received the medal of "Artist of the Year" by the organization "Artist of the Year Award in Guatemala". Organized by the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute. In September 2012, participated in the International Art Fair "Spoleto", selected from numerous international artists, the gallery prestigious gallery, Vatican, Rome La Pigna, His work has been published in several art books and magazines such as the magazine "Arts" of the Dominican Republic, in the journal "Fermenti" of Italy, in January 2011 and in Art books in Guatemala. As well in articles in various international media..

Exhibitions

Individual.

1983 - National Arts School, Guatemala. 1989 - Forum Gallery, Guatemala. 1993 - Museo Ixchel, Guatemala. 1995 - "Monet's Garden Giverny" The Tunnel Gallery, Guatemala. 1996 - "Reflections of Autumn in Giverny", Gallery The Tunnel, Guatemala. 1997 - "Splendors of Summer in Giverny" Gallery The Tunnel, Guatemala. 1998 - Ziegler Museum, Jennings Louisiana, USA. 1998 - Dean Day Gallery, Houston Texas, USA. 1999 - "Roots" Gallery Polyhedron, Guatemala. 2001 - "Inner Landscape" Dew Quiroa Gallery, Guatemala. 2003 - "Elsiestudio" (Study of the Artist) Guatemala 2006 - "Landscapes of Love", Elsiestudio (Study of the Artist) Guatemala. 2006 - September 15th Memorial Reception Hall government of Puerto Rico. 2006 - Gallery Prinardi Hotel Normandie, Puerto Rico. 2007 - "Landscapes from an Inner-Reflection" Summerlin Library Art Gallery Las Vegas, USA. 2007 - "Intimacy with Nature" School Sto Tomas de Aquino , Hotel Casa Santo Domingo Antigua Guatemala. 2009 - "Temple of Nature" Elsiestudio, Guatemala. 2011 - "Tropical Passion" University of Pavia, Italy 2011 - "Tropical Passion" Pietra de'Giorgi in Cantinone Medievalle, Pavia, Italy. 2011 - "Tropical Passion" Italian Institute of Culture, Guatemala. 2011 - "Tropical Passion" Rafael Landivar University, Guatemala. 2012 - "Scenarios for a World of Light ', Ana Lucia Gomez Gallery Latin American Art, Guatemala. 2012 - "Scenarios for a World of Light 'Mornico Losana Castello di Pavia, Italy. 2012 - "Scenarios for a World of Light" in Comune DePavia and University of Pavia, Italy. 2012 - "Scenarios for a World of Light" Unione Cattolica Artisti Italiani Galeria La Pigna, Rome. 2012 - "International Art Fair" Spoleto "Umbria, Italy. 2012 - "Art Show" Residence of the Italian Embassy in Guatemala. 2013 - "Expressions of a nature tour" Cantu-Casteggio Certosa Pavia, Italy International Collective 1987 - Yucatan, Mexico, organized by DG Arts in Guatemala.

1989 - San Cristobal Las Casas, Mexico, Organized by Direccion de Bellas Artes of Guatemala. 1990-Women for the Arts, IMF, Washington DC, USA. 1991-Women for the Arts, Santa Barbara University, California, USA. 1998 - "The Americas", Florida Museum of Hispanic. and Latin Art, USA. 1999 - "Dreams of Green and Gold" Meridian International Center Washington DC, USA. 2003 - Art Miami, Miami International Art Fair, USA. 2003 - Single Hispanic Museum of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. 2003-6 Painters, A night in Guatemala, MOLAA (Museum of Latin America Art), California, USA. 2004 - Francisco Nader Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2004 - "Nouvelle Tendances figurative" Artitude Paris Gallery. 2005 - Park Avenue Gallery, Winter Park, Florida, USA. 2006 - Project "on the cover Miniatures 2006" Art Gallery Berri Santo Domingo. 2006 - Gallery Prinardi, Florida, West Palm Beach USA. 2006 - Project "miniatures Home" Center Puerto Rico Convention in Arts magazine. 2012 - International Art Fair "Spoleto" in Umbria, Italy 2012 - "The Crazzione" Galeria La Pigna, Rome. 2013 - "Artiste for Confronto" Galleria Della Pigna, Rome. 2013 - "Columbia Beach" Ladispoli "UCAI Rome July 12-14 Gal.La Pigna And UCAI Ladispoli 2013 - "Francesco: del Santo al Santo Padre” San Pablo Extramuros Italia,Roma.

Collective in Guatemala Here are some samples of this Collective 1983 - Exhibition auction, "SOS Children" Gallery Dzunum 1983 - IFES Guatemala. 1984 - Biennial of Art Paiz. 1984 - Auction Exhibition, "Forget Me Not" Capuchin Antigua Guatemala. 1984 - Exhibition VII Auction, SOS Visual Arts, Gallery Dzunum. 1984 - The Tunnel Gallery. 1984 - National Library of Guatemala. 1985 - Exhibition of Art, "Cadettes of Christ" 1985-14 Guatemalan Painters, Gallery Tunnel. 1986-9 Guatemalan Painters, Gallery Tunnel. 1986 - The Tunnel Gallery. 1986 - Annual Art Competition, Shell.

1987 - Small Works of Contemporary Art Forum Gallery. 1987 - Shell Competition Guatemala. (Honourable mention) 1987 - The Tunnel Gallery. 1988 - Art Auction, Guatemala Sur Rotary Club. 1988 - The Tunnel Gallery. 1988 - Biennial of Art Paiz. 1989 - Art Auction, Guatemala Sur Rotary Club. 1992 - Exhibition Auction Juannio (from 1992 to Date). 1994 - Latin American Biennial in Santo Domingo, Organized. by Paiz Art Foundation. 1994 - Museo Ixchel. 1994 - Landscapes of Guatemala, the Attic Gallery. 1996 - Salvation Lake, Anacafé. 1997 - Art Auction Guatemala Sur Rotary Club. 1999 - Present Realistic Work, Gallery polyhedron. 2002 - Selected Work, Juannio. 2002 - "Women in the Arts Guatemalan" Hotel Casa Santo Sunday. 2002 - "Solidarity Brushes" Metropolis Rotary Club, Bancafé. 2003 - Botrán Rozas Camino Real. 2004 - Jun Kabal, Anancafé. 2004 - Painting Neruda, IGA. Organized by the Embassy of Chile In Guatemala. 2004 - Inauguration of the Pyramid Gallery. 2004 - Selected Artists Guatemala, Maestro Roberto Ossaye and Artists of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at Pyramid Gallery. 2004 - Opening of Ana Lucia Gomez Gallery, Latin American Art, Guatemala. 2004 - Botrán Roses Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, Guatemala. 2004 - Publication of Book "Caribbean and Central America" Francisco Nader, Latin American Art 2005 - Silent Auction, Diplomatic Ladies Association Guatemala, Hotel Marriot, Guatemala. 2005 - Cima Foundation Alliance Française in Guatemala 2005 - "Very Special Arts", Bancafé, Guatemala. 2005 - "SOSEP" Works of the First Lady, Lucia Gallery Gomez Latin American Art, Guatemala. 2006 - Biennial of Art Paiz, Guatemala. 2006 - Juannio National Modern Art Museum, Guatemala. 2006 - SOSEP (Works of the Presidency.) Guatemala. 2007 - "Homage to Frida Kahlo" Embassy of Mexico, Guatemala. 2007 - Funsilec, House of Mr. Dionisio Gutierrez, Guatemala.

2008 - Funsilec, Hotel Intercontinental and Mr. Dionisio House Gutiérrez "Guatemala. 2008 - Junkabal Anacafé, Guatemala.

2008 - The Hands of Cristine "Panza Verde Antigua Guatemala. 2008 - Art in May "National Museum of Modern Art, Guatemala. 2009 - National Museum Foundation Botrán Rozas of Modern Art, Guatemala. 2009 - Miniatures Gallery Tunnel, Guatemala. 2010 - Auction South ladies Rotarian Guatemala, Museo Ixchel, Guatemala. 2010 - Art Exhibition Junkabal, Guatemala Anacafé 2010 - Art Exhibition in May, National Museum of Modern Art 2011 - Auction South ladies Rotarian Guatemala, Museo Ixchel, Guatemala. 2012 - Junkabal, building Anacafe 2013 - Women and Coffee, Rozas Botrán Foundation Gallery 2013 - Art Mayo Foundation Gallery Rozas Botrán

2013 – Junkabal , Building Anacafe

Elsie

Elsie Wunderlich

www.elsiewunderlich.com elsie.w.art@gmail.com

Cel:(502) 5218-4534 Tel: (502) 2333-4016