Aloha Spirit: Contemporary Artists from Hawai‘i (Book 6)

Aloha Spirit: Contemporary Artists from Hawaiʻi—introductions by Luciano Benetton, David Behlke, Jennifer Karch Verzé, Gigi Manawis, and Joshua Tengan. Editing and translation by various hands; photography of artworks by Marco Zanin; photography of artists by Giuseppe Verzé. Published by Antiga Edizioni for Imago Mundi & the Luciano Benetton Collection, 2017. 

Hawaiʻi artists invited to participate in this book provided a new work in a 10x20cm format specified by the organizers. Each artist is represented by one work. A full-color photograph of each piece is presented facing a statement about the artist and the artist’s career. Thumbnail photographs of the front and the back of the work are included beneath each commentary statement. All texts are presented in English on the left and in Italian on the right. For a few of the artists, foldout pages allow for the inclusion of longer commentary statements. The 150 works created for this project now belong to a Benetton special collection of Hawaiʻi art. It appears that the commentary statements were based on information provided by the artists. A two-page spread towards the front of the book features candid photographs of small number of the artists.

The artists are placed in alphabetical order: Satoro Abe, Amber Aguirre, Bernice Akamine, Pamela Barton, David Behlke, Hawkins Biggins, Carol Mealaaloha Bishop, Regina Bode, Lynne Domokos Boyer, Pratisha Budhiraja, Brenda Cablayan, Jarmen Chai, Mark Chai, Kauaoe Ching, Baixen Chen, Kahi Ching, Charles Cohan, Carol Collette, Calvin Collins, Ann Kondo Corum, collective Paradise Cove, Kathleen Crabill, Anacleto Criste Jr., Tom Curtis, Kanani Daley, Kauka de Silva, Charlie Dickson, Kevin Diminyatz, Robert Danhieuz Douglas, Christopher Edwards, Jodi Endicott, Solomon Enos, Scott Norwood Fitzel, Ka-Ning Fong, Stephen Freedman, David Friedman, Ed Furuike, Deanna Gabiga, Jon Goebel, Kainoa Gruspe, Samuel Edward Guerrero, Daven Hee, Snowden Hodges, Shigo Honda, Pegge Hopper, Meidor Hu, Roen Hufford, Carl Jennings, ʻĪmaikalani Kalāhele, Kloe Kang, Uluwehi Kang, Wesley Kauhane, Sabra Kauka, Kaiʻili Kaulukukui, Beau Jack Imua Key, Sanit Khewhok, Diane Chongmin Kim, Jinja Kim, John Koga, Adrezej Kramarz, Karen Mary Lee, Katherine Love, Jody Lovine, Russell Lowrey, Nanea Lum, Boots Lupenui, Kaleikula Makua, Gigi Manawis, Monica Mann, Erin Marquez, Michael Marshall, John McCaskill, Mary Philpotts McGrath, Laura Kister Mellow, Anthony Mendivil, Hanae Uechi Mills, Daniela Rocco Minerbi, Tamara Moan, Tonia Moreno, Bernie Moriaz, Horoki Morinoue, Miho Kanani Morinoue, Setsuko Watanabe Morinoue, Linny Morris, Noreen Naughton, Philippe François Nault, Deborah Nehmad, Keone Nunes, Anderson O’Mealy, Tom Oʻo Mehau, Devin Oishi, Harinani Orme, Loyd Keith Oxendine, Chikako Ozaki, Carl Pao, Marcia Pasqua, Emily Patasil, Puka Pilot, Maya Portner, Jane Ra, Jeera Rattanangkoon, Margo Ray, Johanette Rowley, Dieter Runge, Sakae Sakamoto, Carol Sakihara, Lauren Salm, Laurel Schultz, Michelle Schwengel-Regala, Lawrence Seward, Daniel Sheinfeld Rodríguez, Yufen Shen, Lisa Shiroma, Fred Smith, David B. Smith, Juvana Solivan, Russell Sunabe, Jimmy Tablante, Wayne Takazono, Keith Tallett, Andrew Tang, Cory Kamehanaokalā Taum, Joshua Tollefson, Lonny Tomono, Harry Tsuchidana, Burton Uhr, Kaori Ukaji, Chiho Ushio, Lori Uyehara, Carl Jerry Vasconcellos, Nancy Vilhauer, Margo Vitarelli, Jared Wickware, George Woollard, Glenn Yamanoha, Nora Yamanoha, Andrew Yamauchi, Scott Yoell, and Debbie Young.