Galvanized by Mark Rothko’s credo: “I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions,” Macedonian artist Jordan Manasijeski’s signature emblematic style focuses on deconstructing images to their most important lines, beautiful colors and organic forms while encapsulating the essence of his compositions. Existing in a prismatic-hued world, his visceral, non-objective canvases are influenced by Rothko’s expressive […]

– Human thought reaches several levels… When a human experiences catharsis, they already exclude that personal interest and calculative trait. People who have enliven purification, erase the ego from their works, and through creativity they can fetch another dimensions, spaces… Even with silence one can sense other spaces where one has already settled and creates… […]

Jordan Manasijeski is a completely original and exceptional painter. There are only few painters who are in constant quest for the substance of art and the essence of color. Even less are the …

Ruthie Tucker Executive Director – Curator
Chelsea – New York , 2011

(On the occasion of the exhibition of Jordan Manasijeski in the gallery “Robevci”, The Institute and Museum Ohrid)
In the “Robevci” gallery (one of the most remarkable houses in the old part of Ohrid ) is held an exhibition of the paintings of Jordan Manasijeski (born in 1948) who is among the few famous painters from Ohrid.

There is a wavering feeling, a feeling coping with the horizon, there is a feeling of finally exalted and sublime pace on soul that rises to attain such crave for testimony of nuances.
‘The painter is sensuously memorized in touch with such, it is said, a sheltered motion of beauty, Something was or is happening inside.

Magical attraction of coloring in the paintings of Jordan Manasijeski does not pull like a whirlwind that in every new way reveals and opens hidden symbols (secrets) from which a new meaning is suggested, which again gives a new question as a sign. How in the life that we “discover” and again we ask tracing […]

The art of Jordan Manasievski requires a complex content analysis conducted with a careful dedication, a painting that gives a lively inspiration to the everyday, as well as Holly issues in life. Constant in the expressive process as an artist, the propagating narration in paintings on his inner path carries him through symbolic figures that […]

Linguistic power. Creative energy. The dynamism of a sign that is never static. These are the essential characteristic of Jordan Manasijeski’s paintings. A painting that explores the mysteries of the mind and tracks visually its dictates. A great signify synthesis, enriched by a very sough chromaticism, characterizes the work of Manasijeski.

An artist whose visions trace out the foundations for a new contemporary art.

Jordan Manasijeski stands out as a wholly original and extraordinarily painter. He comprehends that color has its own life and as such is of mysterious nature. Therefore he uses it in mystifying way not, only to create a specific drawing, but musical harmony stemming from his inner and instructible straight. Such mysterious feeling is expressed with no illusionism, light and shade, with no local tone but applying layers of color side by side , combining and exploring their ratio so as to achieve different harmonies.

Nikola Nikoloski, senior curator, Museum Ohrid, 1996 On the occasion of the third exhibition of the Ohrid painter Jordan Manasievski. The huge path in the research of the noble skill – the painting of the landscape, has successfully passed and now it can be freely said that it is fairly occupying the part in the […]