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 Media: Posdata _ Suplemento literario de Levante-EMV Original tittle: Un Mèdici de Palmera Author: Angels Gregori Photography: Ricardo Gómez-Acebo Date: 24th May 2025 A Médici from Palmera Once, at one of the meals with Vicent Todolí in which he kept talking about literature in a way that was as suggestive as it was unacademic, without any desire to give lessons on anything, but rather conveying the passion that books had given him throughout his life, I asked him why he had not devoted himself to literature. And he answered me briefly but forcefully: because he had too much respect

 Media: El Confidencial.com Original title: Un peso pesado del arte mundial ha escrito la gran defensa de la huerta valenciana Author: Miquel Molins Date: 18th May 2025 A MUSEUM OF TREES A world art heavyweight has written the great defence of the Valencian orchard Vicent Todolí, the former director of the Tate Modern, the Serralves Museum and the IVAM, has written an atypical book about his career in art... and his garden. Who is Todolí is usually one of the most recurrent questions in any report on Todolí. Todolí is a pope of world art. But he is also

 Media: Las Provincias Original title: El jardín que se lee como un museo Author: Jorge Alacid Date: 17th May 2025 The garden that reads like a museum Todolí's double masterpiece. The former director of IVAM meditates in a recent publication on the relationship between nature and the human being and the transformative power of art. Final page of ‘Quisiera crear un jardín (y verlo crecer)’. Last line of text: ‘What is a garden if not a self-portrait’. The phrase born of the inspiration of Vicente Todolí, a prestigious personality on the Valencian, Spanish and international art scene, embodies the

 Media: Cadena Ser Programme: Hoy por Hoy de Àngels Barceló Original title: Un paseo por el huerto de cítricos de Vicent Todolí Author: Eduardo Barba Date: 13 de mayo 2025 The landscape designer and communicator Eduardo Barba travelled to Palmera to visit the Huerto Botánico el Bartolí, the core of the Todolí Citrus Fundació. In a recent broadcast of the programme Hoy por Hoy by Àngels Barceló, on Cadena Ser, Barba recounted his experience touring this unique botanical garden, dedicated to citrus fruits. More than 500 varieties and cultivars - from the best known to rarities such as the

Media: The Guardian.com Original titlel: From kumquats to lime caviar: UK foodies embrace a whole new world of citrus Author: Joel Hart Date: Abril 20th, 2025 From kumquats to lime caviar: UK foodies embrace a whole new world of citrus Chefs, home cooks and supermarkets are discovering exciting new varieties that come in all shapes and sizes When life gives you pithy cedro lemons and sweet Tacle mandarins, what exactly do you make with them? British chefs and home cooks are increasingly embracing new and unusual varieties of citrus in recipes, with supermarkets and greengrocers offering a rising number

Media: ABC Original title: El trabajo es una condena; en el paraíso no se trabaja Author: Bruno Pardo Porto Date: 26 March 2025 The former director of the Tate Modern in London has created a citrus garden in Palmera, the land where he was born. He says it is his most important museum Look no further: paradise exists and it is very close to Gandía, in Palmera, the land where sixty-seven years ago Vicente Todolí was born and where today impossible trees grow, as if taken from the imagination of some happy and hedonistic god. Here everything tastes much,

Media: El Independiente.com Original title: El paraíso contra el ladrillo de Vicente Todolí: “En Valencia somos de un pasito para delante y dos para atrás” Author: Francisco Carrión Date: March 26th, 2025 A leading figure in contemporary art, the Spaniard who once directed London's Tate Modern has created a garden with 500 varieties of citrus fruits in his hometown. "I've already built museums for others. This is my museum. Here, there's no need to change the exhibitions because they change on their own," says Vicente Todolí as he walks among citrus trees, from citrons, limes, and grapefruits to mandarins,

Media: Levante Original title: El 'Autorretrato' de Todolí Author: Amparo Barbeta Date: 26 de marzo 2025 Vicent Todolí, former head of exhibitions at IVAM, confesses in Quisiera crear un jardín (y verlo crecer) that he created the Todolí Citrus Fundació to ‘stop an urban development plan’. An orchard that, he considers, ‘can be an example of how to alleviate the abandonment of land with varieties destined for small markets’. This small agricultural space, or better to call it a paradise, is in Palmera, some five kilometres from Gandía and seventy from Valencia. A 45,000-metre orchard where guided tours are

Media: bbc.com Original Title: The art curator saving the world’s rarest fruit Author: Lucy Lovell Date: March 12th, 2025 The art curator saving the world's rarest fruit Former Tate Modern director Vicente Todolí founded Todolí Citrus Fundació to preserve rare citrus varieties and compile a catalogue of farming knowledge to inspire future generations. Our preconceptions of lemons are very rarely challenged. But on a crisp November morning on Spain's leafy Valencian coastline, Vicente Todolí is showing me the secret side of citrus – and it's unlike anything I've seen on supermarket shelves. The most weird and wonderful specimens are

Media: Revista L'Agrària Original title: El legado de Vicente Todolí: un huerto botánico de cítricos para la ciencia y los valencianos Author: Vicent Llorens Date: Marzo 2025 The legacy of Vicente Todolí: a botanical citrus orchard for science and the Valencian people World-renowned as a museum director and artistic advisor, this Valencian from La Safor shows with this magnificent project, an intimate and personal work, that he is also passionate about citriculture, its study and dissemination, and an energetic guardian of the threatened landscape of the Huerta. From the wooden viewpoint that rises above the thicket of the orchard,