Like her work this book offers different approaches to its subjects: an essay by the renowned critic and art historian Tony Godfrey considers the artist's oeuvre from its painterly beginnings to its 'multimedia' present.

This is the first monograph on the artist Maria Chevska.Like her work this book offers different approaches to its subjects: an essay by the renowned critic and art historian Tony Godfrey considers the artist's oeuvre from its painterly beginnings to its 'multimedia' present. Evoking figures such as Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer and Ilya Kabakov, Godfrey locates Chevska's practice at the nexus of modernism and its elimination. With a particular focus on her use of material and text the essay reveals an underlying conflict that lies at the heart of Chevska's work which continuously moves from the very small to the very large, from the sensual to the rough from the light to the dark.

Accompanying this visual journey is a philosophical guide and response to Chevska's work by the eminent French theorist and writer thne Cixous.

PAINTING AS SEANCE

THE RECENT WORK OF MARIA CHEVSKD

TONY GODFREY

SELECTED WORKS

IDYLL, 2005

ROSA, VLADIMIR, VLADIMIR, EL, KURT

MARCEL, FRANZ, 2005

BUT COULD YOU, 2004-2005

CAN'T WAIT [LETTERS RL], 2003-2004

ARE YOU STILL, 2002

VERA'S ROOM, 2000 (ONGOING)

K·A NOTEBOOK (VERA'S ROOM)

HELENE CIXOUS

TRANSLATED BY SUSAN SELLERS

COMPANY, 1999

PERPETUA, 1994

WEIGHT, 1992

VISIBILITY, 1992

BIOGRAPHY