In the 14th century, with the arrival of Humanism, the word opera began to be used to refer to the work of art.
In this denomination, horticulture was also included, and one of these operas were citrus fruits.
Art and Citrus
For Vicente Todolí it was a revelation to learn that the Medici, in 1550, began to collect citrus fruits as if they were art and that they brought specialists precisely from Valencia to design and care for their gardens. Thus, the desire to know and disseminate the world of citrus exists beyond the orchard. Extending our interest in studying and collecting the presence of citrus fruits in works of art.
Todolí Citrus Fundació has a strong link with contemporary art, which is present in different areas of the Foundation’s facilities, most of them being works that the Foundation has received as donations from renowned contemporary artists, among them: Silvia Bachli, Miroslaw Balka, Lothar Baumgarthen, Xu Bing, Carmen Calvo, Mauricio Cattelan, Joan Jonas, Attilio Maranzano, Cildo Meireles, Antoni Miralda, Juan Muñoz, Nicolás Ortigosa, Jorge Peris, Jurgen Schadeberg, Alessandra Spranzi, Juan Uslé, …
Every September, Todolí Citrus Fundació opens its orchard to the most experimental and innovative cinema with Cine de Vanguardia en el Jardín, an annual open-air screening programme curated by independent programmer Andrea Franco.
The project was created with the aim of offering an artistic and aesthetic experience in dialogue with the citrus garden of the Foundation. Each year it presents a selection of films rarely found in conventional circuits, often closer to the field of contemporary art and experimental visual practices.
Poecítrics is a festival that highlights the value of our landscape through the memory of the land and the word. Organized jointly by Todolí Citrus Fundació and Francisco Brines Fundació, it gives life to a project that is developed in a space with a great landscape value as El Bartolí and starred, among others, by the poems of Francisco Brines.
