For his exhibition at the New World Museum Houston, Ronald Morán has chosen to go back to the source of the violence-laden objects, and presents display cases and shelves of an imaginary toy-shop where the spectator is confronted by the enormous offer in this line. He has also included logos of the aggressive video games that proliferate among children and youngsters, as "Mortal Combat", and also objects likea large water-pistol or a game of Indians and Cowboys. By representing the objects in the cotton material instead of presenting the object itself lined in it, Morán returns to drawing, and creates volumes, shades, lines, with a particular lighting effect on the tri-dimensional images of these objects. Finally, a piece that announces a new path in the work of Morán: a circular stationary target made in glass with sand-blasted lines. Here the artist not only refers to the game but also to the idea of an one and only possibility in the random firing. This target only allows a single opportunity of a hit: the objective will be destroyed from the first time, whether it touches the center or not. This piece opens other options of research in the field of fragility, which is, finally, what Morán has been developing since several years.

 


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