Azerbaijani artist awarded UN special prize

Baku, February 1, AZERTAC

A personal exhibition of employee of the Marketing and Communication department of Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) Seyran Jafarli opened in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

More than 130 caricatures of Seyran Jafarli are demonstrated in the exhibition organized by the support of the European Caricature Center located in Brussels. Caricatures watched with great interest were mainly devoted to the social and environmental issues.

The exhibition will be open until April 8.

Jafarli started his creative activity in magazine “Kirpi” in 1982 and in 2002 he created the Union of Caricaturists of Azerbaijan. At present he is the director of the “Humortoons International Cartoon News Centre” and the editor-in-chief of the international caricature magazine “Humor”. He has been the jury member for more than 42 international caricature competition. Over than 1000 works have been exhibited in the international caricature competitions and published in the albums. He has received more than 100 international awards, including the UN special prize.

The personal exhibitions of Seyran Jafarli were organized in Belgium, Turkey, France and Iran. His caricatures were exhibited in the international competitions held in China, Colombia, the Netherlands, Cyprus, Japan and other countries.