Sometimes, life takes precedence over art. In a 1957 self-portrait, the Ampurdán painter and pedagogue Esther Boix (1927-2014), one of the most important of her generation, is a sad woman. Beside her is her husband, the poet Ricard Creus, equally contrite. Both have strangely elongated necks, as if Francoism were infiltrating their bodies and deforming them, as can be seen from this Friday at the exhibition that the Fundació Vila Casas dedicates to Esther Boix at the Espais Volart, titledEsther Boix. A World in Struggle. This is the most ambitious retrospective ever dedicated to her, and an unmissable exhibition.