I Want to Create a Garden and Watch It Grow

The memoirs of Vicente Todolí, director of the Tate Modern from 2003 to 2010.

Vicente Todolí, every bit a reference in the world of contemporary art, has moved from directing major museums around the world, such as the Tate Gallery, to growing 400 varieties of citrus fruits in his hometown. A “Renaissance man”, vocationally curious, who researches anything that rouses his emotions, whether it is art or cultivating the land.

In I Want to Create a Garden and Watch It Grow the author reflects on the things that catch his attention, and on his life and professional career: from Valencia to New York, Porto, London, Milan... discovering artists and organizing exhibitions, to return to his land and recover, literally, his roots, cultivating palm, olive and citrus trees.

Quick and accurate analyses of art, museums and artists, intriguing, personal and lively narratives.