Rectangle Group
The Rectangle Group (Spanish: Grupo Rectángulo) was a Chilean artist group active from 1955 until the early 1960s.[1][2][3] The group was the first abstract-geometric and concrete art movement in Chile.[3]
History
The Rectangle Group was founded in 1955[a] by Luis Droguett, Gustavo Poblete Catalán, Ramón Vergara Grez and Waldo Vila at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.[1] The group aimed to develop abstraction through the exploration of geometric forms, and to eliminate the referential link between art and reality.[1][2]
In 1965[b], the groups successor the Form and Space Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Forma y Espacio) was founded.[1][6]
Members
Painters
- Elsa Bolívar
- Mario Carreño
- Ximena Cristi
- Luis Droguett
- Uwe Grumann
- Aurel Kessler
- Magdalena Lozano
- Matilde Pérez
- Maruja Pinedo
- Aída Poblete
- James Smith
- Waldo Vila
- Aixa Vicuña
Sculptors
- Carlos Alarcón
- Federico Assler
- Adolfo Berchenko
- Lorenzo Berg
- Sergio Berthoud
- Guillermo Brozalez
- Roberto Carmona
- Virginia Huneeus
- Isabel Sotomayor
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Grupo Rectángulo". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- 1 2 "Matilde Pérez (1916–2014); Grupo Rectángulo". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- 1 2 Guerrero, Claudio (2017). "Elsa Bolívar. Desintegración en el espacio". Catálogo razonado. Colección MAC (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. pp. 103–104. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Términos; Grupo Rectángulo". Portal de las Artes (in Spanish). Chile. Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- ↑ "Forma y espacio". Museo de Arte y Artesanía de Linares (in Spanish). Linares, Chile. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- ↑ "Movimiento Forma y Espacio". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2 April 2026.