Politika Award for the best exhibition in 2018 went to sculptor Gabriel Glid for the exhibition “Vidjeno i nevidjeno” (Seen and Not Seen), which took place during October and November last year in the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Nis, on the premises of Officers Club. The exhibition consisted of a selection of sculptures and graphics from the latest opus of this author. Jury composed of: art historians Sasa Janjic (presiding juror), Ljiljana Cinkul, Gordana Dobric, Una Popovic, Marija Djordjevic, the editor of newspaper supplement of Politika, decided by the majority of votes about the award. Gabriel Glid distinguished himself in this year’s rather strong competition for the best exhibition in the previous year in Serbia. Gabriel Glid is a representative of the generation of artists who stepped onto the art scene at the end of eighties and the beginning of nineties of the 20th century. It’s a generation who started new sculpture as a step back from the traditional sculpture. His sculpting opus rests on a minimalistic approach. This artist uses and combines traditional materials such as wood, metal or stone, as well as new ones – sponge, rubber, silicone. Glid’s sculptures postulate basic geometrical shapes – cube, roller, square – through a further elaboration, the artist brings them to new layers of meaning. Thematically, Glid’s inspirational starting point are different phenomena of individual and societal reality, such as questions of identity, consumer society and geopolitical relations. “Since the very beginnings, the artistic opus of Gabriel Glid, as a representative of new Belgrade sculpture, encroaches deeply on the application of new materials and technologies in the domain of sculpture, its redefining and translation into contemporary language which communicates with a new reality. One of the main features of his work is a constant re-examination of different models of representation, as well as a critical discourse against the reality of the world we live in. The exhibition “Seen and Not Seen” in the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Nis unified and wrapped up his engagement in and reflection on sculpture which is founded on a minimalistic approach and minute realization, as well as the application of different traditional (stone, wood) and new (silicone, rubber, sponge) materials”, it is stated in the elaboration of Politika Award jury. Apart from sculptures, at the exhibition in Nis, Gabriel Glid presented graphics realized in techniques of silk-screen printing and print, from the cycle “Cilimi” (“Carpets”). “The author approaches the plastic interpretation of these themes with a lot of personal, contemplative freedom, consciously avoiding direct speech, staying at the level of allusion with a discrete dose of humor and irony. By the very title, the artist provides the observer with a certain flexible frame for possible interpretations. Art language of Gabriel Glid is founded on well-known sculpting language elements, which are not used raucously or provocatively, but turned into a sophisticated visual speech, outlined in chosen terminology”, the art director, Milica Todorovic, wrote in the catalogue of Nis exhibition. Gabriel Glid obtained his Bachelor and Master’s degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He has exhibited on 20 independent exhibitions and more than a 100 collective ones in Serbia and abroad. He was a Professor at the Sculpture department at LaSalle Art College in Singapore (2004 – 2005). He has been employed at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade since 2009 and now holds the academic degree of full professor for the subject Sculpture and Drawing. He has been awarded five times, one of his awards, the greatest professional acknowledgement being “Zlatno dleto” of Ulus.