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Vicente Todolí to leave the Tate Modern
By h.b. - Mar 16, 2010 - 1:35 PM
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Vicente Todolí, (right) with Ferrán Adrià at a food fair in Barcelona last year - EFE
The Valencia art historian says he will be going in the summer
The Valencian art historian, Vicente Todolí, is to leave his post as head of the Tate Modern gallery in London in the summer.
It is an unexpected decision as the Museum celebrates its tenth anniversary in May, but Tolodí says it’s time to move on after seven years in the post.
It means that a new director will have to guide the gallery’s expansion plans which are forecast to open to coincide with the London hosting of the Olympics in 2012.
Tolodí told El País that his career so far had been in seven year sections first at the IVAM in Valencia, and then in Oporto, and he says he always has had the intuition when it is time to move on.
Under his leadership the Tate Modern has reached an average of five million visitors a year.