Zdravko Joksimović, sculptor and professor at the Academy of arts in Belgrade, is an unavoidable figure of the local contemporary art scene. It has already been said of him that he is the author of the probably "most complete and most original (sculpture) opus in contemporary Serbian art". Joksimović said the following about the exhibition in Arte Gallery and the new work which he will present for the first time:

""Your body deserves the best" is a commercial slogan which connects sculptures I have been working on for a couple of years now. The beginning of this cycle starts with the red torso from 1997. The body and the physical represent only the frame. In that formal labyrinth I can communicate in an open and direct manner with a still  valid system of values, which art history has established, as well as with a feshist-masochist heritage of the last decades of the 20th century, and likewise with that how the body is being redefined and promoted yesterday and today. The formal frame, which on purpose I do not want to depart from, speaks about my need to continue exploring a classical language of sculpture, its universal laws, its ways of communication. Thereby, from a formal perspective this is exactly what interests me, how one can be inventive. clear, luxurious and poetical through a traditional logic of sculpture."

Joksimović's sculptures, which are in modern art always characterized by an almost paradoxical union of vocational spotlessness and conceptual base, represent an unusual mix: in a formal sense, technically perfect, they manifest the author's tendency to examining capabilities of certain materials and their sculptural potentials, while in a meaningful sense, they present serious questions about the nature of artistic creation and the role of a sculptor in that process through witty and unexpected combinations of mimetically represented forms.

The exhibition can be viewed until the 24th of April. Beside sculpture, a slide-show presentation with presentations of older works of the author will be shown, as well as smaller formats which will be exhibited for sale on the first floor of the gallery .