Girl with a balloon

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 Martín Ron, the Argentine positioned among the best urban artists in the world, has just broken the record in height.

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.

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.

“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.
"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 ”