Rectangle Group

{{Short description|Chilean artist group}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} The '''Rectangle Group''' ({{langx|es|Grupo Rectángulo}}) was a Chilean artist group active from 1955 until the early 1960s.<ref name="AVC">{{cite web |title=Grupo Rectángulo |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-45595.html |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=2 April 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref><ref name="Memoria">{{cite web |title=Matilde Pérez (1916–2014); Grupo Rectángulo |url=https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-95997.html |website=Memoria Chilena |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile |access-date=2 April 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref><ref name="Guerrero">{{cite book |last1=Guerrero |first1=Claudio |title=Catálogo razonado. Colección MAC |date=2017 |publisher=Museo de Arte Contemporáneo |location=Santiago, Chile |pages=103–104 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010123726/https://mac.uchile.cl/content/documento/2017/julio/bolivar_elsa_ficha_razonada.pdf |access-date=3 April 2026 |language=es |chapter=Elsa Bolívar. Desintegración en el espacio}}</ref> The group was the first abstract-geometric and concrete art movement in Chile.<ref name="Guerrero"/>

==History== The Rectangle Group was founded in 1955{{efn|Also cited as 1953.<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=Términos; Grupo Rectángulo |url=http://www.portaldearte.cl/terminos/rectangu.htm |website=Portal de las Artes |access-date=2 April 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730231502/http://www.portaldearte.cl/terminos/rectangu.htm |archive-date=30 July 2015 |location=Chile |language=es}}</ref>}} by Luis Droguett, {{ill|Gustavo Poblete Catalán|es}}, {{ill|Ramón Vergara Grez|es}} and Waldo Vila at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.<ref name="AVC"/> The group aimed to develop abstraction through the exploration of geometric forms, and to eliminate the referential link between art and reality.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Memoria"/>

In 1965{{efn|Also cited as 1961.<ref name="Linares">{{cite web |title=Forma y espacio |url=https://www.museodelinares.gob.cl/publicaciones/forma-y-espacio |website=Museo de Arte y Artesanía de Linares |access-date=2 April 2026 |location=Linares, Chile |language=es}}</ref>}}, the groups successor the ''Form and Space'' Movement ({{langx|es|Movimiento Forma y Espacio}}) was founded.<ref name="AVC"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Movimiento Forma y Espacio |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-45579.html |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=2 April 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref>

==Members== ===Painters=== {{columns-list|colwidth=18em| *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 }} <ref name="AVC"/>

===Sculptors=== {{columns-list|colwidth=18em| *Carlos Alarcón *Federico Assler *Adolfo Berchenko *Lorenzo Berg *Sergio Berthoud *Guillermo Brozalez *Roberto Carmona *{{ill|Virginia Huneeus|es}} *Isabel Sotomayor }} <ref name="AVC"/>

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