Global Art • 1923
The Romanian-born sculptor and close friend of Marcel Duchamp Constantin Brâcuși enters his notorious Princess X sculpture into the annual Salon des Indépendents exhibition in Paris. The sculpture's suggestive form scandalises the Salon and is removed from the exhibition despite Brâcuși's explanation of it as an anonymous portrait.
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.