VAN GOGH AND THE OLIVE TREES
The thousand-year-old olive tree, with its sinuous shapes, its characteristic “knotted” trunk and its thick green foliage: the predilection for this precious plant today unites Monini with the work of one of the most famous painters of all time, Vincent van Gogh. The olive tree is in fact the subject of many masterpieces dedicated to nature from the Provençal period of the master of post-impressionism.
The exhibition “Van Gogh and the Olive Groves” is dedicated to 15 of these masterpieces, hosted from 11 March to 12 June 2022 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and created with the support of Monini. An international initiative that celebrates Van Gogh’s fascination with the olive tree as a powerful symbol which for the artist perfectly embodies man’s bond with nature.
The result is a limited edition on which to admire the famous “Self-portrait with a straw hat” (1887), in which Van Gogh – always fascinated by nature and seems to invite us to look at the landscape with his eyes -, and two paintings dedicated to nature , the “Olive Grove” (1889), on display in Amsterdam, and the masterful “Iris Field near Arles” (1888).
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Field with Irises near Arles (detail) | Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (detail) | Olive Grove (detail) |
A collector’s edition which also combines artistic value with historical value because the cans reproduce the original ones with which Monini extra virgin olive oil began its journey from Spoleto to the world.
Available until September 2023 at the Le Tambourin restaurant of the Van Gogh Museum and online on our Monini web Store.
EXTRA VIRGIN OIL CAN - CENTENARY ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION
The graphics of this can reflect exactly the one created in the 1950s by the founder of the company, ZEFFERINO MONINI, grandfather of the current owners, and is a tribute to him, to his passion for extra virgin olive oil and to his entrepreneurial skills.
More than 100 years and three generations have passed since the first harvest and the first pressings in the oil mill. Almost everything has changed since then, but the daily care of the Monini family and the unique flavor of its Extra Virgin Olive Oil have remained the same.
Day after day, Monini brings Italian excellence all over the world.
