Hossein Golba - Diversity is Value
Specifications: 22.5 x 10.5 x 6.2 cm ceramic with 14k gold plate
Price: S$3,500 each
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Diversity is Value
- insight towards a new sustainable world -
From ancient times, the gold ingot has warranted a certain asset value. However, in our era of globalization, such values can only be preserved if the value of diversity is also considered. Even if sustainable growth could be achieved only by way of globalization, the value of diversity is compatible with globalization. One should not consider diversity as an obstacle for sustainable growth, but rather as a common foundation for such.
The work Diversity is Value was created in 1001 copies. The number is taken from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in which the main protagonist Scheherazade, tells stories for one thousand and one nights, after which her life was saved. The individual stories were created over many centuries by many people and in many styles, finally becoming a book.
I hope that the message I have seeded will spread and bear fruit one day.
- Hossein Golba
Front-Asia Art Village Project
Diversity
Cultural diversification is likely to become an issue in the 21st century, exceeding the
globalization of culture and civilization notable in the 20th century. Originally, culture was
something nurtured through the climate, natural features and society of each land. Even within the
wave of globalization, each land has breathed its own respective culture. By shedding light on the
value of that inherent culture in the 21st century and by activating the diversification of value, it is
possible that a whole concept of more affluent human society and culture can be explored.
Silk Road
Throughout the history of Eurasia, various civilizations have prospered and coexisted. Although struggles have taken place, many exchanges have also taken place, with the recognition of one another's values. The principle network that provided the bases for this exchange was the Silk Road.
Due to the globalization of information, communication, and transportation in the present age, is it possible to renew appreciation of the difference in such cultures, and use it as nourishment for a new age? Front-Asia intends to situate the obscured diversified culture on the cutting edge of the concept of culture in the 21st century.
Front-Asia Village
Hossein Golba initiated this idea to reestablish the Silk Road - the creation of a network of pluralistic values through various cultural and artistic exchanges. More specifically, the project intends to create a centre for Asian contemporary culture that could be named Front-Asia Village. An Olympic-like city where Asians could actually live together and work and have exchanges. Moreover, it foresees the creation of archives which will include a documentation database of the fine arts, music, cinema, theatre, dance, literature, architecture, and all other fields of the contemporary and traditional cultures of Asia, utilizing modern technology. In short, the project aims to create a great spiritual resource of Asia, which will allow Asians to discover themselves through the research of their roots. Until today, Hossein Golba has interviewed more than 80 people from diverse fields on this subject, while the Promoting Committee of Front-Asia was formed with others who sympathize with his idea. Front-Asia is a project in progress, and it should be built with people who accept diversity as a valuable asset.
Architecture competition
One of the fruits of this activity was a unique architectural design competition held in 2004 on the theme of Front-Asia Village project, a home for dialogue and discourse of the diverse cultures in Asia and more than 500 proposals were received, presenting their ideas on the project. We believe that if people from different cultural and economic backgrounds (not only artists but all citizens, economists, statesmen, activists of social movements, scholars, researchers, etc) gather and exchange such ideas in Asia, the Front-Asia project will be accomplished.
- The Committee of Front-Asia
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