Muybridge: Gregory Barsamian

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Gregory Barsamian is first and foremost a sculptor, but the added element of time he puts in his sculptures make them so much more. With the help of an armature that spins and a strobe light, Barsamian makes his immobile, multiple clay sculptures appear to be one animated sculptural piece. A lot of Barsamian’s works are about the mind and consciousness, and he believes that the time element in his works have a story-like quality to them that makes his works more relatable to people.

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Barsamian’s pieces are representative and have a surreal feel to them. This is due to the impossible, dream-like situations he portrays and his depictions of isolated body parts (like hands or heads) instead of the whole body. As said before, to make his works, Barsamian has to make quite a few of the same sculptures but in different poses, kind of like how a cartoonist has to make the same drawing over and over again in different poses as well for an animation. In this respect, Barsamian’s pieces are very comparable to a flipbook and can even be considered as a sculptural flipbook.

http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/tris-vonna-michell-art-of-noise-etc.html

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