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Martin Ron

<div><br>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>The renowned muralist Martín Ron created two works at the National University of Lomas de Zamora</strong> (UNLZ), which celebrates its 50th anniversary on October 13. These are two murals that were painted in the Central Library and move everyone who walks the paths of the property.<br><br></div><div>The muralist explained that <strong>the two works "portray studying, but hand in hand with what work is</strong> . " They make an impact, their realism surprises and the details leave more than one speechless. In the scenes you can see issues that the students who attend the house of higher studies experience daily: the bus trip with the notes underlined with fluorine highlighter, the traditional Capitán del Espacio alfajores and the inevitable Don Satur biscuits, which accompany each meeting study and breaks.<br><br></div><div>“Inside we have a classic scene, which can be the kitchen of a family home. Using the cell phone, the notes, highlighted, the cookies appear, the classic alfajores, a bitten pen. That is where the identification is strong, ”explains Ron, while in the“ second scene, there is a girl who is studying with a backpack on her legs, in a bus ”. "The wall becomes a window," warns the muralist, who focuses on "the seasoned hands." “It symbolizes the effort, the sacrifice and the work”, he concludes.<br><br></div><div><strong>The mural of the young woman traveling by bus and studying is outside the Library, while the scene of the study meeting can be enjoyed in the hall.</strong>&nbsp;<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>El reconocido muralista Martín Ron se encuentra trabajando desde hace tiempo en dos obras en la Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora (UNLZ), que celebra sus 50 años el próximo 13 de octubre. Se trata de dos murales que fueron pintados en la Biblioteca Central y conmueven a todo aquel que transita los caminos del predio.<br><br>El muralista explicó que las dos obras “retratan el estudiar, pero de la mano de lo que es el trabajo”. Impactan, su realismo sorprende y los detalles dejan boquiabiertos a más de uno. En las escenas pueden verse cuestiones que a diario viven los estudiantes que asisten a la casa de altos estudios: el viaje en colectivo con los apuntes subrayados con resaltador flúor, los tradicionales alfajores Capitán del Espacio y los infaltables bizcochitos Don Satur, que acompañan cada encuentro de estudio y en los recreos.<br><br>“En el interior tenemos una escena clásica, que puede ser la cocina de una casa de familia. Utilizando el celular, los apuntes, resaltados, aparecen las galletitas, los alfajores clásicos, una birome mordida. Es ahí donde está fuerte la identificación”, explica Ron, mientras que en la “segunda escena, hay una chica que está estudiando con una mochila sobre sus piernas, en un colectivo”. “La pared se convierte en una ventana”, advierte el muralista, quien hace foco en “las manos aguerridas”. “Simboliza el esfuerzo, el sacrificio y el trabajo”, concluye.<br><br>El mural de la joven viajando en colectivo y estudiando se encuentra en el exterior de la Biblioteca, mientras que la escena de la juntada de estudio se puede disfrutar en el hall.<br><br></div>

Travel Study

<div>A little girl stands on tiptoe to cover a wall with Lego blocks. Play. It is the center of the image of a monumental mural on the dividing wall of a building in Banfield with which <strong>Martín Ron,</strong> the Argentine positioned among the best urban artists in the world, has just broken the record in height.<br><br></div><div>On the 65-meter wall, which houses the highest mural in the region, the image of the girl is observed with attention or by chance from hundreds of windows, balconies and sidewalks. Ron hung his painting in the open air and gave reasons to look up and be surprised by a work that breaks with the monotony of the southern suburbs landscape.<br><br>With the design, the public space becomes the frame of a painting that brings the gestures of childhood to a magnificent scale. The neighbors are now inhabitants of some lands of Lilliput before the portrait of a giant, which there are already two, since a year ago, on another large facade, Ron painted a child, who visually dialogues on the urban scene with whom make up the new duo. Soon, there will be three. Meanwhile, the girl stands on the metallic balloon with which the protagonist of the other painting is playing.<br><br></div><div>“When I paint, I literally turn my back on the city; then it is the work that manifests itself, it makes things happen, it grows wings ”, says the artist.<br>"The works generate a sense of belonging and pride for the neighborhood," says Ron. “I have lived here for five years. Until now, I opened a window and where I now see the murals I saw a wall. It became an attraction, and the properties, I estimate, are going to be revalued ”<br><br></div><div><br><br></div>

Girl with a balloon

<div>The artist Martin Ron painted "Muro de la memoria" (wall of memory) at AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina/Mutual Israeli Argentinian association.&nbsp;<br>On July 18, 1994, at 9:53 am, in the morning, a bomb exploded at the scene, killing 85 people and injuring 300. It was a terrorist attack. The staircase is painted on two columns that survived the explosion. And in the second photo the names of the fatal victims are read.&nbsp;<br>The fact still goes unpunished. Memory, truth, justice is the motto of the cause.</div>

Muro de la memoria 

El Marian (Arg)

Lion Graff

<div><br>From left to right we see @ el.mar.ian @liongraff and @ronmuralist is located in Benito Pérez Galdós, almost Minister Brin.<br>The set is called Mujeres. Martin Ron, known as one of the ten best muralists in the world. His large-scale works are characterized by a hyper-realistic style, with the use of strong colors, textures and elements of everyday life. One of his personal stamps is the use of the grid that is present in several of his works. He is also an artist who paints on canvas using this medium for the expression of other types of art.<a href="https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/una-invasion-de-coloridos-murales-en-el-distrito-de-las-artes"> https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/una-invasion-de-coloridos-murales-en-el-distrito-de-las-artes</a></div>

Mujeres (Women)

<div>&nbsp;Un niño con una <strong>enfermedad poco frecuente (EPOF) </strong>abrazando un globo, con la mirada hacia el parque donde otros niños están jugando y riendo. Esa imagen gigante plasmada en un <strong>mural</strong> por el artista urbano <strong>Martín Ron</strong>, interpela a reflexionar sobre las realidades que viven las personas con <strong>EPOF</strong> y sus familias, reconociendo el derecho a la salud de estos pacientes.<br> <br>La iniciativa forma parte de la campaña de este año de la <strong>Federación Argentina de Enfermedades Poco Frecuentes (FADEPOF</strong>). El mural tiene de 15 metros de ancho por 11 metros de alto y está ubicado enfrente del <strong>Hospital General de Agudos José María Penna</strong>, Pedro Chutro 3435, en el barrio de <strong>Parque Patricios.</strong><br> <br><em>“</em><strong><em>Martín Ron</em></strong><em> logró representar con su arte las realidades que poco se conocen de lo que viven a diario las personas con alguna </em><strong><em>EPOF</em></strong><em>. La imagen tiene muchos elementos simbólicos, como el catéter representando los cuidados que requieren estas enfermedades, unido al tradicional globo con forma de corazón en un gesto de aferrarse a su </em><strong><em>derecho a la salud</em></strong><em>, el juego de reflejos vinculado a la necesidad de dar luz y reconocimiento a estas realidades. La mirada de anhelo del niño hacia el parque queriendo ser parte de las risas y juegos”,</em> interpretó para Infobae<strong> Luciana Escati de Peñaloza, directora ejecutiva de FADEPOF.</strong><br> <br><em>“La remera rayada del niño personifica las rayas de las cebras. El ejemplo invita a los médicos a sospechar las </em><strong><em>EPOF</em></strong><em> y no pensar solo en las enfermedades predominantes; también alude a que, así como la combinación de rayas de cada cebra es única, también lo es cada una de las personas que viven con una enfermedad poco frecuente, y detrás de cada raya y de cada individuo hay una historia de vida que también tiene derecho a la salud”</em>, añadió <strong>Roberta Anido de Pena, presidenta de FADEPOF.</strong><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>A child with a rare disease (RDLD) hugging a balloon, looking towards the park where other children are playing and laughing. This giant image embodied in a mural by the urban artist Martín Ron, calls for reflection on the realities experienced by people with EPOF and their families, recognizing the right to health of these patients.<br>&nbsp;<br>The initiative is part of this year's campaign of the Argentine Federation for Rare Diseases (FADEPOF). The mural is 15 meters wide by 11 meters high and is located in front of the José María Penna Acute Care General Hospital, Pedro Chutro 3435, in the Parque Patricios neighborhood.<br>&nbsp;<br>“Martín Ron managed to represent with his art the realities that little is known about what people with some EPOF experience on a daily basis. The image has many symbolic elements, such as the catheter representing the care that these diseases require, together with the traditional heart-shaped balloon in a gesture of clinging to their right to health, the game of reflexes linked to the need to give light and recognition of these realities. The child's look of longing towards the park wanting to be part of the laughter and games”, Luciana Escati de Peñaloza, executive director of FADEPOF, interpreted for Infobae.<br>&nbsp;<br>“The boy's striped T-shirt epitomizes the stripes of zebras. The example invites physicians to suspect EPOF and not think only of the predominant diseases; it also alludes to the fact that, just as each zebra's combination of stripes is unique, so is each person living with a rare disease, and behind each stripe and each individual there is a life story that also has right to health”, added Roberta Anido de Pena, president of FADEPOF.<br><br></div>

Untitled

<pre>"2166" is the title of the work, a synthesis between country and city, but also a look to the future, and a game alluding to another 150 years: these are six monochrome vaquitas, on which two children from backs to a great rising sun, represented by the center of a sunflower, symbol of the field.</pre><div><a href="https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201607/157023-mural-martin-ron.html">https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201607/157023-mural-martin-ron.html</a></div>

2166

<div>Work by Martin Ron for JJ-Street Baltic Session festival in 2015.&nbsp;</div>

Mundra

Martin Ron: "The concept of this artwork is following a similar line that I have been doing for a while with the theme of urban surrealism generating situations of fantasy through painting in the street. The public enjoy the humour in my artworks and I very often choose an everyday theme. In this instance, the badger that has been in the news a lot in the UK and was in fact the first news I heard about after I got here. After arriving in London I went to stay in the house of a friend in Oxford and when I turned on the television there was a story about British Prime Minister David Cameron wanting to kill badgers or reduce the population of badgers and the government was saying that the animals carry diseases. When I saw the news story I thought what a pretty animal, what is going on? I thought it would be a great concept for my next mural."

David and Goliath

Australian Silo Art Trail

<div><br>The Tumby Bay Silo was completed in April 2018 and was the 18th Silo to be completed in the Australian Silo Art Trail. They were painted by an Argentinean born artist by the name of Martin Ron. It took him five weeks, 430 litres of paint and 400 hours to complete. Martin was also assisted by a Sydney artist Matt Garrick.<br>Martin spent over a week in Tumby Bay touring the town, getting a feel for the place, when he came across some local children jumping off the jetty.&nbsp; There is also a photograph by Robert Lang, captured in 2014 of two boys jetty jumping and it is from these two things that martins inspiration for the silos was conceived.<br>This particular silo was harder to complete than others as it runs horizontal, rather than vertical. And when viewed from just the right angle the connecting silos behind all line up to portray this wonderful image of the two boys enjoying a favourite summer pastime.<br>There is a car park for caravans and busses on the left as you enter Bratten Road heading towards town. Be sure to view the mural from the extreme left for best viewing.</div>

Tumby Bay Silo Art

<div>&nbsp;The Plaza Lola Mora in Buenos Aires has become the last pilgrimage center for Maradon, the god of Argentine football. On October 30, thousands of people came there to celebrate Diego Maradona’s birthday and remember him two years after his death together with the largest portrait of him that exists. It was painted by the artist Martín Ron on the wall of a 12-story building, 40 meters wide and 45 meters high.<br><br></div><div>“Diego is strength, it is courage in the face of adversity,” describes Martín Ron (Caseros, 31 years old) in a talk with EL PAÍS at the foot of the mural. “He always challenged power and never understood limits. They may or may not want it, but something happens to everyone with Maradona and not everyone can achieve that. When Diego left, a piece of our childhood, of our history, also left, and remembering him with a tribute mural is too beautiful, ”he adds.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;Ron worked with a team of seven people from seven in the morning to seven in the evening for a month to arrive on time for October 30th. About 800 liters of paint were needed. On Saturday, on the eve of the birthday, an end-of-work barbecue was held with Ron and Pedro Peña, creator of the La Carnicería, Niño Gordo, Chori and Paquito restaurants, among others.&nbsp;</div>

Maradonna

<div>&nbsp;Argentinian artist Ron Martin made that beutiful mural "Mundra" he was helped by his friends Jiang &amp; Skippy. On mural they try to show Latin-Amerikan culture. Women shows meditation and latins women's inner energy and that not in straight way but mystical way</div>

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