# Rectangle Group

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{{Short description|Chilean artist group}}
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The '''Rectangle Group''' ({{langx|es|Grupo Rectángulo}}) was a Chilean [artist group](/source/Art_movement) 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](/source/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](/source/Arts_Faculty%2C_University_of_Chile) of the [University of Chile](/source/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](/source/Chilean_National_Museum_of_Fine_Arts) |access-date=2 April 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref>

==Members== 
===Painters===
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*[Elsa Bolívar](/source/Elsa_Bol%C3%ADvar)
*[Mario Carreño](/source/Mario_Carre%C3%B1o_Morales)
*[Ximena Cristi](/source/Ximena_Cristi)
*Luis Droguett
*Uwe Grumann 
*Aurel Kessler
*Magdalena Lozano
*[Matilde Pérez](/source/Matilde_P%C3%A9rez)
*Maruja Pinedo
*[Aída Poblete](/source/A%C3%ADda_Poblete)
*James Smith
*Waldo Vila  
*Aixa Vicuña 
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===Sculptors=== 
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*Carlos Alarcón
*[Federico Assler](/source/Federico_Assler)
*Adolfo Berchenko
*Lorenzo Berg
*Sergio Berthoud 
*Guillermo Brozalez 
*Roberto Carmona
*{{ill|Virginia Huneeus|es}}
*Isabel Sotomayor 
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==Notes==
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==References==
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Category:Chilean art

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