Project Description

Genre
Painting

Technique/Media Used
Oil Colors

Date Created
01/18/1993

Dimensions
24″ x 20″

About the Piece

This painting portraits the centennial commemoration of the Hawaiian throne Usurpation of 1893. Hundreds of Hawaiians met on the ground of Iolani Palace to commemorate it with chants, dances, and speeches. I was attending it, and painted it right on location the very same day of the commemoration.

About the Artist

Daniela Rocco Minerbi, a native of Italy with a Doctoral Degree in Architecture and professional license from the Polytechnical University of Milan, obtained the Fifth Year Piano Diploma at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi. She completed the course work for a Master Degree in Urban and Regional Planning at UH. Her art works, shown nationally and internationally and in private and public collections, received awards from Windward Artists Guild, Hawai’i Watercolor Society, Vladimir Ossipoff, and recognition in the press. Daniela, a member and artist for P.A.P.P (Portable Art Portable Peace Show) of Kapiolani Community College brought it to several Italian cities. She brought the Disarmament Show of 170 original works from Milano to the Lama Library of KCC. She was invited at Freedom of Information Multi Media Installation at the Arts at Mark’s Garage, was accepted at the International Hawaii-Japan Art Juried Exhibition and was a founding member of ART-TEA SUN Art Gallery and Community Outreach in Palolo Valley.. She lectured at University of Hawai’i system teaching Painting, Italian Language, and Architecture. Daniela’s consulting services are in architectural design, conceptual and working drawings, building permits, and construction completion. She pro-bono includes design for the houseless.