Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2009 Mixed Bathing World


Hossein Golba

Hossein Golba

Hossein Golba


Born 1956, Babol, Iran.
Moved to Italy in 1976.
The artist lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Graduated from Accademia di Brera, Milan, Italy in 1983.

The artist continues to create works based on communication with the earth and deep thinking based upon Islamic mysticism. He started research project named "Front-Asia" with motto "Diversity is Value" after moving to Japan. The project is meant create Asian cultural community.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Carve the Time, UBE tokiwa Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan

2001
Diversity is Value exhibition & symposium, Pitti Palace-Boboli Garden, Florence, Italy

1997
The Golden Day, La Marrana, Spezia, Italy

1996
The Body of Dream, Fiorile Arte, Bologna, Italy
Gold of Poets, Extra Moenia, Todi, Italy
Sculpturing Time VIII (no places), Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy

1995
No Age, San Carlo Gallery, Milan,Italy
Angelicum, Arcadia Nuova Gallery, Milan,Italy
The Color of Saffron, Angelo Savelli Center, Lamezia Terme, Italy

1993
Rassegna 92/93, Studio Graziano Vigato, Alessandria, Italy

1992
Sculpturing Time III -In homage to Andrej Tarkovskij, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
The Kissing Spot, ES Gallery of Art, Pinerolo, Italy
The Rose Garden, Galleria Comunale d' Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo,Italy
Sculpturing Time V, Sant´Andrea Cultural Center, Savona, Italy

1990
Golba, Omphalos, Terlizzi, Italy
Anthology 86/90, Santandrea Culture Center, Savona,Italy
The Weight and The Lightness of Sensibility, Gallery Duemme, Cisterne di S.Maria di Castello, Genova, Italy

1989
The Sculpture like Something Live, Rondottanta, Milan, Italy

1988
The Color of Time, Studio Gianni Caruso, Turin, Italy

1987
The Golden Day Finishes Like This, Gallery Fuxia Art, Verona, Italy
The Sound of Dream, Gallery Pero, Milan, Italy

1983
Silence, Raiffeisen Bank(Austria);Gallery Meta, Bolzano, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Singapore Biennale 2006, City Hall, Singapore
Yamaguchi National Cultural Festival, Ube City, Japan

2002
Biennale of Sacred Art, San Gabriele, Gran Sasso Island, Italy
New Art, Tehran Contemporary Art Museum, Teheran, Iran

1996
The 9th International Biennial Exhibition of Sculpture 1996-7, Skironi Museum Polycronopours, Athens, Greece
Under The Different Skies, 90 Artists in Exile from the World, Copenhagen, Denmark

1987
The 3rd International Art Festival of Amalfi, Salerno, Italy

1985
Desideretur, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy

SELECTED Public Collections and Public Art
Skironi Museum, Athens, Greece
Boboli Garden of Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy
The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japan
Nagasaki Peace Museum, Japan
Park of Pinocchio, Collodi, Italy