Jordan Pop Iliev

By LatAm ARTE

He was born in 1940. He currently lives and works in Skopje. He studied Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy. He was interested in caricature from early childhood, but began to actively study it in 1969. He was a regular contributor to “Pavliha”, “Ljubljana”, “Borba”, “Expres-Politika” and “Jez”, “Belgrade”, “ Oslobodjenje Sarajevo” and others. He is one of the founders of the Association of Caricaturists of the Republic of Macedonia. He was first secretary since 1981, initiator and organizer of the first Macedonian exhibition abroad in Legnica, Poland, in 1980. In addition, he held solo exhibitions in Amsterdam 1984, Trento 1989, Skopje and some other cities of Macedonia. In 1977 he released the author's collection "Horns." In 1990, invited by the Andromeda Festival in Trento (Italy), he held a solo exhibition and published the compilation Apartheid. The author's works are presented in many caricature museums around the world, such as Tolentino, Trento, Tehran, Gabrovo, Berlin, Istanbul, Mexico, Warsaw, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro and others. He illustrated several textbooks for primary and secondary education in the Republic of Macedonia. Likewise, he constantly collaborated with renowned comic and satirical magazines and newspapers: “Mebeshpalter” in Switzerland, “Black on White in Color”, “Evening” in Macedonia, the satirical magazine “Osten” and in the newspaper “Diary”, Skopje . He has been the winner of more than 150 cartoon contests.