Apulian oil meets Japanese art. Italy-Japan cultural exchange and promotion exhibition

The Apulian oil meets Japanese art, an exhibition at Palazzo Granafei-Nervegna in Brindisi
The Apulian oil meets Japanese art, an exhibition at Palazzo Granafei-Nervegna in Brindisi

On 19 and 20 December 2019 in Brindisi, at Palazzo Granafei – Nervegna, the exhibition “The oil of Puglia meets Japanese art” will be held.

The exhibition sees the collaboration of 230 Japanese masters and Masseria Monache, a producer of extra virgin olive oil in the Brindisi area.

Around 300 labels of a selection of extra virgin olive oil reserved by Masseria Monache for the occasion will be exhibited.

The name of the brand, “Il Genio Universale”, is a tribute both to Leonardo Da Vinci, in the year in which 500 years after his death are celebrated, and to the structural and organoleptic characteristics that make the extra virgin olive oil unbeatable “universal genius” of natural oils.

Each of the approximately 300 labels exhibited will bear a different artistic work created by a Japanese master; the works in question will be varied and different in inspiration and genre: Japanese calligraphy, ink painting, photography, Ikebana (the Japanese art of arranging flowers), traditional ceramics, haiku Japanese poetry, Japanese poetry Tanka.

Completely free, the exhibition will be inaugurated on December 19th 2019 at 11:00, and will be open until 12:00 on December 20th 2019; at the inauguration there will be a small representation of Japanese masters.

Masseria Monache, producer of extra virgin olive oil, hopes that this initiative will increase the interest in the “Treasures” that the tradition – artistic on the one hand, gastronomic on the other – of Italy and Japan has known, during the centuries, to elaborate.