Martin Ron is a street artist from Argentina, and he visited London and just finished painting a large mural on the Village Underground. His work features surreal subjects. The large mural on the Village Underground features a hand (modelled by his girlfriend), a man (modelled by his flatmate), and a badger. According to an interview with StreetArtLondon (1), he chooses humour in his work because the public appreciate it.
The subject of the mural, named 'Badgergate', focuses on the badger against a large machine. Martin choose to paint this because the first news he heard in the UK was about badgers, and he thought they were a pretty animal (1). The mural took a week to paint. I love the green hatch-marks on the background and the mural and think that the badger and the hand are painted well. This mural brightens up the area.
Detail of the badger
Detail of the tiles
The scale of the work
Martin Ron's work 'Badgergate' in progress
1) Badgergate - Martin Ron Paints the VU Wall. http://streetartlondon.co.uk/blog/2013/08/28/badgergate-martin-ron-paints-the-vu-wall-2/ [28 August, 2013].
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