Ren Marin

Ren Marin Visual Artist Studio. Visual aHrtist Renelio Marin's works since early 1990's to present; from Havana to New York City.

Los Suenos del Security. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
05/27/2026

Los Suenos del Security. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.

Los Suenos del Security (Detail.)
05/27/2026

Los Suenos del Security (Detail.)

El sueno del Security ( the Security's dream). Detail.
05/22/2026

El sueno del Security ( the Security's dream). Detail.

Twelve trials of a relationship. Acrylic on camvas., 30 x 40 inches. 2026.
05/15/2026

Twelve trials of a relationship. Acrylic on camvas., 30 x 40 inches. 2026.

"Unf # and Models." Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 inches.
05/14/2026

"Unf # and Models." Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 inches.

15 Minutes of Fame.
05/05/2026

15 Minutes of Fame.

15 minutes of fame.
05/05/2026

15 minutes of fame.

05/05/2026
Zoran Mandani (Snake Diamond Liutenant Colonel) Destroyer of Capitalism.
05/04/2026

Zoran Mandani (Snake Diamond Liutenant Colonel) Destroyer of Capitalism.

Bartolo’s Banana Fields Spillover (El desborde del Platanal de Bartolo)This painting operates as a humoristic allegory t...
02/07/2026

Bartolo’s Banana Fields Spillover (El desborde del Platanal de Bartolo)

This painting operates as a humoristic allegory that blends cultural parody, social observation, and visual satire. Drawing from the Cuban popular expression El Platanal de Bartolo—a phrase traditionally used to describe disorder, excess, and systemic improvisation—the work transposes that idea into a contemporary symbolic landscape.

At the center of the narrative is a male figure gradually dissolving into the background, visually receding toward an abstracted, manufactured archetype of masculinity. Rather than a literal disappearance, this transformation is rendered with irony and theatrical exaggeration, presenting masculinity as something redesigned, standardized, and ambiguously “improved.” The figure’s retreat becomes both comic and uncanny, echoing the painting’s broader tone of parody rather than condemnation.

The “banana fields” function as a metaphorical spillover: a once-contained cultural condition expanding beyond its original context. What was historically associated with Third World chaos, improvisation, and excess is here humorously reimagined as a global condition—no longer confined to geography, but to ideology, aesthetics, and social engineering.

Despite its provocative subject matter, the painting maintains a playful distance. Humor is central to the work’s intent; exaggeration, visual absurdity, and cultural reference serve as tools for reflection rather than polemic. The result is a satirical tableau that invites viewers to laugh first, think second, and recognize how cultural metaphors migrate, mutate, and reappear in unexpected forms.

Executed with layered imagery and symbolic tension, Bartolo’s Banana Fields Spillover situates itself between social commentary and visual comedy—where parody becomes a means of cultural diagnosis, and irony becomes the primary language of critique. ( Me + Chatgpt )

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