Not one, but three great exhibitions provide you with the perfect excuse, if you need it, to come again to the halls of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, the great exhibition centre on Barcelona’s Rambla which, between 16 November and 30 March, takes you into the artistic universes of three essential artists: a creator dedicated to experimentation, another who studies language and the way in which art has treated women and an artist who builds bridges thanks to typography and other disciplines, like words and images.

As great examples, those dedicated to Regina Silveira and Mar Arza (pictured, a moment from the audiovisual work Un cercle dins de si mateix). The former is a Brazilian multimèdia artist, a key figure on the conceptual art scene. In the exhibition ‘Desestructures de poder’, curated by Isabella Lenzi, you will see works that she created during the dictatorship that Brazil lived between 1964 and 1985, but also current creations that offer a sample of her career. You can see how she has often used optical games and modified images from the media and art history to talk to us about hierarchical structures and symbols of power.

You will also see pieces, models of major architectural projects, which will tell you about the artist’s interest in the democratisation of art and the establishment of dialogues in shared spaces.

When you go to La Virreina you should also take a look at the creations of Mar Arza, an artist from Castelló de la Plana who was born in 1976 and who presents a total of seven unpublished projects created for this exhibition, entitled ‘Sotaveu’ and curated by Valentín Roma. The exhibition also includes fifteen works that show the artistic paths the artist has followed over the last twenty years. The title of the exhibition refers to the images ‘that, from certain forms of vulnerability, damage any attempt to take over our words’, as the organisers explain. With her personal language, Arza talks about, among other things, the way in which art has considered femininity and how it has represented and, very often, stigmatised it. Here you will discover what phylacteries are and establish comparisons between contemporary femininity and the femininity that can be glimpsed in prehistoric works of art.

The last exhibition to be inaugurated these days at La Virreina occupies the most modest space, but is of outstanding importance, as it is the first retrospective devoted to Josep Iglésias del Marquet, a painter, art critic, visual poet and journalist (Artesa de Lleida, 1932 – Barcelona, 1989), who was one of the pioneers of concrete poetry and mail art in Catalonia. He is the star of the exhibition ‘Poesia, tipografia i comunicació de masses’ (Poetry, typography and mass communication), in which we will get to know this author with a polyhedric vision of poetry who was particularly active during the seventies, when he created many of the collages and visual poems that you can see in the exhibition. As a curator, the poet Eduard Escoffet.

If you don’t want to miss the exhibitions ‘Desestructures de poder’, ‘Sotaveu’ and ‘Poesia, tipografia i comunicació de masses’, come to La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, but first check the website for more information.