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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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