Elmar René Rojas Azurdia (1942 in San Raymundo Peñafort, Guatemala[1] – 18 February 2018), was a Guatemalan painter who served as the first Minister of Culture and Sports under the government of Vinicio Cerezo.

Latinamerican Award of 'Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana', Quito, Ecuador in 1970 The "wonderful real" is a “boundary state” in which the “inadvertent riches of reality,” or more simply, the day-to-day miracles, can become evident.

The "wonderful real" is connected to André Breton's definition of Surrealism: “It is a state of the spirit, in which the true and the false, the tall and the short, the dictory and contradictory stop being perceived as opposing each other.

It is in vain to search in surrealist activity for a motive other that the hope of being able to determine this point.” Miguel Ángel Asturias wrote in a foreword of a book on the classic Mayan city of Tikal: “Guatemala is only equal to itself.

However, his work does not follow the immediate path of folklore, or any other non-depurated mechanism, but that of a painstaking artistic reconstruction of reality's composite order, which Rojas turns decipherable, trapped in its immanence so it will captivate and hallucinate from the bottom of his productions.