Fantasías
Proyectos Ultravioleta
November 5, 2017 — January 7, 2018
Ruberta, Glendale, California, USA
Elisabeth Wild was born in Vienna (Austria) on February 6th, 1922. In 1938 she emigrated with her parents Franz and Stefanie Pollak to Buenos Aires, Argentina, fleeing Nazism in Europe. Coming from a family of female artists (her Grandmother was a painter), she learned to paint in Vienna’s Academy of Art, and then explored figurative nude drawing in the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina, participating in her first group exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Mar de Plata.
In order to make a living, Wild ventured in textile design through silk screen printing. And it was precisely by way of her designs that she met her husband August Wild, a textile industrialist of Swiss nationality. Together they had a daughter, Vivian, who was born in 1949. In 1962, during Juan Perón’s government, the family moved to Switzerland, where Wild opened an antiques shop in a historical building in Basel. Finally, approaching her 75th birthday, she moved back to Latin America in 1996 to live with her daughter Vivian (Suter) and grandson Panchito in Panajachel, a town in Lake Atitlán, in between three volcanos.
Since then, both Elisabeth and Vivian have been fully dedicated to their individual artistic practices despite having to deal with a series of local difficulties. Specifically, they have endured the torrential flooding of Hurricanes Mitch (1998), Stan (2005), and Agatha (2010), plus the town’s constant threat of local gangs, narcos, and vigilantes.
Through her meditative daily practice in collage, Wild creates bold and dynamic compositions made up of cut-up pages of art and lifestyle magazines. In the words of Adam Szymczyk, Artistic Director of documenta 14, “The work emerges as sediment processed through the iconography of cool chic; pretty much anything, from lipstick advertising to the decor of luxury interiors to fashion accessories, can catch Wild’s attention. Hers is a magpie strategy: she collects pieces of world glitz and bling to free them from the commodity system and turn all-too-familiar pictures into new images. Wild’s kaleidoscopic worlds -she terms them Fantasías- exert their own, special allure.”
Taking place in Ruberta between November 5th and January 7th, 2017, Fantasías will feature 26 of Wild’s most recent collages set against bright yellow walls. At age 95, this will be her first ever gallery solo show in the United States.
Other exhibitions by Elisabeth Wild at Proyectos Ultravioleta:
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The Night Dies by the Day, the Day Dies by the Night
group show
Guatemala
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Frieze London 2022
group show
London
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Nina’s Wishbone
group show
London
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ARCO Madrid 2021
group show
Madrid
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Frieze NY 2021
group show
New York
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First Sunrises on Earth
group show
Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City
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NADA MIAMI 2019
group show
Miami, USA
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Chicago Invitational 2019
solo show
Chicago, USA
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ARCO Madrid 2019
group show
Madrid, Spain
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ArteBA 2018
solo show
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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NADA Miami 2017
group show
Miami, USA
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Condo London
group show
London, UK
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NADA Miami 2016
group show
Miami, USA
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Frieze London 2016
group show
London, UK
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Monstera Deliciosa
group show
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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NADA Miami 2015
group show
Miami, USA
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NADA NY 2015
solo show
New York, USA
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NADA Miami 2014
group show
Miami, USA
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In My Brother’s House
Guatemala City
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Alchemy of Aches
Guatemala
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Herbaria
London
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Walking Through a Forest, at Night
Guatemala
2023
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Nada Concreto (Nothing Concrete)
Guatemala City
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Ríos de gente (Rivers of People)
Regina José Galindo
Guatemala City
2022
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Oído vegetal (Vegetal Ear)
Guatemala
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Nina’s Wishbone
London
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Pisapapeles
Guatemala
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Pa ru tun che´ (From the Treetop)
Guatemala
2021
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Suavitel Entertainment Club
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Oh shining star testify
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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CONDO Shanghai
Regina José Galindo
Shanghai, China
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Sometimes you have to go down to go up
Akira Ikezoe
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2019
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CONDO São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
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Of the Color of the Forest, at the Bottom of the Sea
Johanna Unzueta
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Live Happily
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Condo London
Hellen Ascoli
London, UK
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The Guardian of the Forest
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Uncertain Nature, or how Landscape is Constructed From Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Condo Unit SP
São Paulo, Brazil
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When He Woke Up…
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2018
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The Objective
Regina José Galindo
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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El eje del mal (The Axis of Evil)
Glendale California, USA
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I Woke Up Early to Comb the World
Hellen Ascoli
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Condo NY
Vivian Suter
New York, USA
2017
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Modulated Emotions
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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In the Prosperous Days
Jorge de León
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Condo London
London, UK
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Dennis, the Florifundia and the Pato Poc
Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Monstera Deliciosa
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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AUTO HYSTŒRIA
Alberto Rodríguez Collía
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2016
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The End of the East Coincides with the End of the South
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Touch Wood
Guatemala city, Guatemala
2015
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Melvin Laz
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Fantasía
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Zipacna, Creator of the Mountains
Paris, France
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Elisabeth Wild
Elisabeth Wild
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2014
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The Day Before Yesterday
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Significant Set
Panama City, Panama
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Octopus
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Proyectos Ultravioleta presents: A space to meet art, spend time between nature and culture, see, listen, feel and think.
San José, Costa Rica
2013
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Architecture and Friendship
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Culture and Art in Guatemala
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Proyectos Ultravioleta presents
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Inside Joke
Panama City, Panama
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The Terrible 2
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Proyectos Ultravioleta presents Proyectos Ultravioleta presents…..
Zürich, Switzerland
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Así que se vaya (So it goes) / Quetzaltenango
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
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BOTH ENDS
London, UK
2012
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Así que se vaya (So it goes) / Comalapa
San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala
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Dolphin Bay
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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P O S T P A N A M A X
Panama City, Panama
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Así que se vaya… (So it goes…)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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THE BURNING OF THE DEVIL
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Waterfall
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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International Meeting (Cheverista) of Medellin
Medellin, Colombia
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We Dress to Express, Not to Impress
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2011
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Great Masterpieces of the 20th Century
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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BYOB Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Mayami Son Machín
Miami, USA
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LUX
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Esther Planas: Events and Aparitions in Red
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Tomorrow
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Silverio
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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ULTRAMARICA
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Ultra Es Low
San José, Costa Rica
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ch.ACO
Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Joy Vinicio
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2010
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Parents, distance and speed
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Buró de Intervenciones Públicas (BIP)
Buró de Intervenciones Públicas
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Roldán’s Journal
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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El (Inter) National (Psycho) Geographic TWAIN
Guatemala City, Guatemala