Grace Graupe-Pillard: Grace Delving into Art

© Grace Graupe-Pillard, Grace in a Race, Umberto Boccioni, Museum of Contemporary Art,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

About The Exhibition

Exhibition Curator: Carla Della Beffa

VASA exhibition by American artist Grace Graupe-Pillard.

Accepting your mature body requires courage. For Graupe-Pillard, showing it in her works is a means of questioning the given ideas about femininity, art, society, and is more than many artists would be able and willing to do. And she does it with humor, a great passion for art and her brilliant knowledge of it. Grace Delving into Art can be seen as a series of art history lessons that won't be easily forgotten. As Robert Mahoney (article on Yahoo, 2013) wrote: “By her posture, her pose...she makes a statement about the art. It's an art review by an artist using her body and not her voice.” (From curatorial statement)

On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.