Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) was a group of abstract artists in
Paris
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, founded 1929 by
Joaquín Torres García
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Given name
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and
Michel Seuphor
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Seuphor established a literary magazine, ''Het Overzicht'', in Antwerp in 1921. He moved in ...
. The group published a journal with the same name. In 1930 they organised an exhibition in Paris showing 130 abstract works by various artists. "Notre programme fût "Construction", fusse figuratif ou non-figuratif" ( Our formula was "Construccion" whether it was figurative or non-figurative). When the Abstraction-Création was founded in 1931 it absorbed the group.
From 1936 Joaquín Torres García continued publication of the journal from Montevideo in Spanish and French with the title ''Círculo y Cuadrado'' "La seconde epoque de "Cercle et Carre" (Circle and Square, the second period) with the same logo. From abroad artists sent letters and articles to be published:
Jean Hélion
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Umberto Boccioni
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, etc.
1930 Exhibition
April 1930 the group opened an exhibition in ''Galerie 23'' at
Rue La Boétie
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History
From 1640 ...
Willi Baumeister
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Life
Born in ...
Marcelle Cahn
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Germán Cueto
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Serge Charchoune
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Pierre Daura
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Huib Hoste
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, Vilmoz Huszar, Vera Idelson,
Wassily Kandinsky
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Amédée Ozenfant
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Ozenfant wa ...
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Antoine Pevsner
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Biography
Pevsner was born as Natan Borisovich P ...
Luigi Russolo
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, Alberto Sartoris,
Kurt Schwitters
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Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, Constructivism (art), constructivism, surrealism ...
, Henri Stazewski, Hechama Szmuszkowicz,
Joseph Stella
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, Hans Suschny,
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
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Born in 1889 in Davos, and raised in Trogen, Switzerlan ...
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Joaquín Torres-García
Joaquín Torres García (28 July 1874 – 8 August 1949) was a Uruguayan-Spanish artist who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Torres-García emigrated to Catalunya, Spain as an adolescent, where he began his career as an artist in 1891. For ...
, Vordemberge-Gildewart, Adya Van Rees, Otto van Rees (artist), Georges Vantongerloo, Hans Welti, H.N.Werkman, Wanda Wolska.Catalogue de la exposition organisee par le groupe Cercle et Carre, Paris 18 Avril au 1 Mai, 1930
List of issues
''Cercle et Carré''
Published in Paris, 193 Círculo y Cuadrado accessdate=19 Mar 2012
* No. 1 – 15 March 1930
* No. 2 – 15 April 1930
* No. 3 – June 1930
''Círculo y Cuadrado''
Published in Montevideo, 1936-194 Círculo y Cuadrado accessdate=20 Mar 2012 List of Montevideo issues at Publicaciones Periódicas del Uruguay (issues available as PDF's)
* No. 1 – May 1936
* No. 2 – August 1936
* No. 3 – February 1937
* No. 4 – May 1937
* No. 5 – September 1937
* No. 6 – March 1938
* No. 7 – September 1938
* No. 8, 9 & 10 – September 1943