Cercle et Carré


Cercle et Carré was a group of abstract artists in Paris, founded 1929 by Joaquin Torres Garcia and Michel Seuphor. 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".
When the Abstraction-Création was founded in 1931 it absorbed the group.
From 1936 Joaquin Torres Garcia continued publication of the journal from Montevideo in Spanish and French with the title Círculo y Cuadrado "La seconde epoque de "Cercle et Carre" with the same logo. From abroad artists sent letters and articles to be published: Jean Hélion, Piet Mondrian, Umberto Boccioni, etc.

1930 Exhibition

April 1930 the group opened an exhibition in Galerie 23 at Rue La Boétie with works by Hans Arp, Willi Baumeister, Ingibjörg Stein H. Bjarnason Carl Buchheister, Marcelle Cahn Francisca Clausen, Jaime A. Colson, Germán Cueto Serge Charchoune, Pierre Daura, Alexander Exter, Fillia, François Foltyn, Jean Gorin, Wanda Chodasiewicz-Grabowska, Huib Hoste, Vilmoz Huszar, Vera Idelson, Wassily Kandinsky, Luc Lafnet, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Oscar Luethy, Piet Mondrian, Stefan Moszczynski, Erik Olson, Amédée Ozenfant, Antoine Pevsner, Enrico Prampolini, Luigi Russolo, Alberto Sartoris, Kurt Schwitters, Henri Stazewski, Hechama Szmuszkowicz, Joseph Stella, Hans Suschny, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Vordemberge-Gildewart, Adya Van Rees, Otto van Rees, Georges Vantongerloo, Hans Welti, H.N.Werkman, Wanda Wolska.

List of issues

''Cercle et Carré''

Published in Paris, 1930 , accessdate=19 Mar 2012
Published in Montevideo, 1936-1943 , accessdate=20 Mar 2012 List of Montevideo issues at Publicaciones Periódicas del Uruguay