Jadranka Kosorcic
If you can´t close this door don´t open it
V22 Presents - The Wharf Road Project


Opening Party: 3rd October 6pm onwards
Exhibition continues until 19th October Wed - Sun 12 - 7 pm

Send photo to kosorcic@hotmail.com if you are interested in sitting for a portrait to be included in the exhibition.

David Risley Gallery is proud to present the first solo project in the UK of the Croatian artist Jadranka Kosorcic.

As part of If you cant close this door dont open it Kosorcic will draw portraits of sitters in the exhibition space throughout the exhibition. The finished portraits will form the content of the exhibition. A selection of portraits from her recent show "Blind Date", Artothek, Munich 2008 will also be on display.

Through the placement of advertisements in various newspapers and chance meetings, Kosorcic finds sitters with whom she can identify. She is interested in the direct and immediate reproduction of the tension between the artist and the sitter, all of who are unknown to her before the drawing takes place.

Please contact Adam (adam@davidrisleygallery.com/+44 (0) 20 8980 2202) for further information.

Jadranka Kosorcic (1972, Split/ Croatia)
Jadranka Kosorcic lives and works in Munich and has exhibited extensively in Europe including recent solo exhibitions at Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb (2008), Artothek, Munich (2008) and Essl Collection (2003). Kosorcic has a forthcoming exhibition at White Columns, New York later this year.

V22Presents/Wharf Road Project

Show - 4th October to 19th October, Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 7pm.
The Wenlock Building 50-60 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RN
Tel. +44 (0)207 159 6790 || tara@v22london.com || lois@v22london.com

The Wharf Road Project brings more than 20 innovative contemporary art initiatives together for the first time in a central location, creating a seminal showcase for the more unusual and innovative. The Wharf Road Project is not an art fair, but a large-scale exhibition featuring the best of London’s specialist and experimental art spaces, complemented by a programme of performances, screenings, music and guided tours.

Participants have each been allocated one of the 5-storey venue’s rooms to curate exhibitions which reflect their artistic endeavours and curatorial ethos. This mash-up of different organisations will create an opportunity to engage with established art spaces as well as some of the newest and most exciting art initiatives in London.

The Wenlock building is owned by Workspace Group plc who have long been supporters of the arts and London‘s creative industries. V22 is the first cooperatively run art collection, owned by artists themselves as well as external investor-patrons. Our ethos is to make the best new art accessible to more people in more ways. The Wharf Road Project is a celebration of artists, their supporters and the wider industry. V22 will feature new works for its collection selected by Martin Westwood and Martin Creed.