Cercle et Carré

Logo for "Cercle et Carré", designed by Pierre Daura in 1929

Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) 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. When it was founded Abstraction-Création absorbed the group.^[1]

From 1936 Joaquin Torres Garcia continued publication of the journal from Montevideo in Spanish with the title Círculo y Cuadrado (Circle and Square). It was the journal of the Asociación de Arte Constructivo (Association for Constructivist Art).^[2]

1930 Exhibition

April 1930 the group opened an exhibition in Galerie 23 at Rue La Boétie with works by Hans Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Pierre Daura, Antoine Pevsner, Luigi Russolo, Georges Vantongerloo and others.^[3]

List of issues

Cercle et Carré

Published in Paris, 1930:^[2][3]

• No. 1 – 15 March 1930
• No. 2 – 15 April 1930
• No. 3 – June 1930

Círculo y Cuadrado

Published in Montevideo, 1936-1943:^[4]

• 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

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