"Marking the seventieth anniversary of the sculptor Jiři Bezlaj (1949), the City Art Gallery set up a survey exhibition presenting one of the most eminent Slovenian stone sculptors. Having worked in stone for more than forty years, Bezlaj has a track record of over 120 solo and group exhibitions organized both in Slovenia and internationally.”

"Stone has a particular charm. It is very old, millions of years, and emanates its age-old wisdom. Handling it, one absorbs the stone’s knowledge. Sculpting is also a kind of meditation. According to oriental schools of alchemy, on reaching their final evolutionary stage, all minerals turn to gold.”

The Slovenian Association of Art Critics presented Sarival Sosič, a curator of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, with the Critique Pen Award for art critique and curatorship. Sarival Sosič demonstrates a broad understanding of art and culture. In 1987, he graduated from the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, and a year before that enrolled in the studies of art history as well as comparative literature and literary theory at the Faculty of Arts.