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The "wonderful real" is a âboundary stateâ in which the âinadvertent riches of reality,â or more simply, the day-to-day miracles, can become evident. The "wonderful real" displays the astonishment that surrounds the viewers of Rojas' art without their being able to see it, revealing revelations and
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Elmar Rojas' creative work also comes from this reality of prodigies and sufferings, from that intact vessel of the wonderful real which is
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Elmar Rojas' work inquires in the inexhaustible reservoir of the
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in cities around the world. His art is seen as expressive of "
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