ANTONIO MACHADO AND EXILE: A SHARED MEMORY" EXHIBITION

• Venue: Royal Castle
• Last admission: 45 minutes before closing time
• Closed on 1 January and from 15 January to 27 January, 1 May, 15 and 16 August, 25 and 31 December.
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• Exhibition ‘Antonio Machado and exile: a shared memory’ until 6 April 2025

"Around the exhibition":

Opening on Friday 21 February at 6.30pm, preceded by a themed guided tour of the exhibition (4.30pm)

Paintings by Cristina Fonollosa and Exhibition ‘In the footsteps of the poet Antonio Machado’ by the Master INTERVALES – UPVD in partnership with the Antonio Machado Foundation

Born in Barcelona in 1951, Cristina Fonollosa is a painter, engraver and illustrator who occupies a prominent place among the most representative visual artists of her generation: both for her varied and authentic themes and for her international reach. With her naïve style, also known as primitive, she reinterprets the imaginary of life from an original, fantastic and poetic perspective, expressing love, abandonment, desire, solitude and play. Her subjects range from family scenes of mothers with children to Mediterranean island landscapes, biblical scenes, invented mermaids from Caribbean folklore or rare cats, planets or animals. Her illustrations and engravings have also accompanied works and stories by Spanish and Latin American writers. In particular, she has depicted the lives of poets, including Antonio Machado, in the ‘aleluyas’ style.

Cristina Fonollosa's paintings are accompanied by the exhibition ‘In the footsteps of the poet Antonio Machado, a shared memory’. The exhibition was produced by students in the Master 2 Heritage Professions programme at the University of Perpignan, under the guidance of Virginie Soulier, lecturer in museology, and with the collaboration of the Antonio Machado Foundation in Collioure. This excellent university project highlights the life and work of the famous poet through the vicissitudes of twentieth-century history, reaching out to a wide audience.

For further information:

https://www.ledepartement66.fr/dossier/le-chateau-royal-de-collioure/

http://www.machado-collioure.fr

https://www.cristinafonollosa.com/en/