The exhibition "Dream Reality, The Animated Sculpture of Gregory Barsamian " will be held from Friday, July 28 to Sunday, September 10 at the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]. Gregory Barsamian 's work "Juggler" (1997), which is part of the ICC Collection, has won wide popular acclaim from children and adults alike. His solo show Innuendo Non Troppo, organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, toured six cities in the United States from 1998 up until June this year. The exhibit at the ICC, featuring works in this traveling show, as well as his earlier works including animations and new pieces created especially for this occasion, will introduce Barsamian 's colorful and appealing oeuvre.

Barsamian 's works are animated sculpture -- through the use of rotating mechanical armatures and synchronized strobe lights, three-dimensional objects move horizontally and vertically and change their shapes in real time. The inspiration for this strange and wonderful world are animation techniques that predate the film such as the zoetrope, flip book and phenakistiscope, all of which are based on the "persistence of vision," in other words, afterimage. In tracing the evolution of moving image technology, Barsamian encountered the optical devices that were the precursors of movies and video.

Under the influence of Jungian psychology, Barsamian has also been tape-recording fragments of his dreams since 1983. The surreal images that appear in his works are like dream sequences, culled from his own personal dream data base. Motifs, which draw upon social and political humor and irony, everyday life and popular culture, as well as ur-images, range from the personal to the universal; in each of them, the viewer will likely experience the amazing and provocative reality of dreams.

The dates of the exhibit coincide with summer vacation, and the world full of humor and dreams that Barsamian creates is sure to appeal to both children and their parents.