89 Artists Explore the Impossible at Galerie Laurent Rigail's 'La Quadrature du Cercle'

From May 28 to June 20, 2026, Galerie Laurent Rigail at 40 rue Volta in Paris presents 'La Quadrature du Cercle,' a group exhibition featuring 89 contemporary artists. The show takes its title from the ancient geometric problem of squaring the circle—converting a circle into a square of equal area using only rational tools—long deemed impossible by mathematicians. Curated around the tondo, a circular format rooted in Renaissance art from Giotto to Michelangelo, the exhibition reframes this constraint as a catalyst for creative freedom. Artists employ painting, drawing, collage, photography, and mixed media to transform the circle into a boundary, an infinite horizon, or a space for contemplation. The gallery, recently renamed Galerie Laurent Rigail after over two decades of operation, asserts its continuity under director Laurent Rigail, who states, 'This is not a new departure, it is an assumed continuity.' The exhibition positions itself as a laboratory of ideas, where impossibility becomes experience and wonder.