Global Art • 1948 • I
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Global Art • 1948 • I
The CoBrA group is formed. Influenced by the Dada movement and Marxist philosophy, and against Surrealism, CoBrA bases its working method on spontaneity and experimentation. South African artist Ernest Mancoba participates in the HØST CoBrA exhibition in Copenhagen.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.