28/05/2026, 
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In the new issue of ART9 (June, No. 32), two articles about Miki Muster have been published. Both are written by Andrej Božič.
The first, shorter yet important piece presents Miki Muster as a (political) caricaturist—that is, as the author of grotesquely satirical visual responses to current social events within a given time and place. He published such caricatures in the early 1950s and, after a long hiatus, again in the 1990s and after 2000, this time more extensively and systematically. For various reasons, this facet of Muster’s creative work was long seen as marginal and was often overlooked in biographical commentary, eclipsed by generalized labels identifying him as a comics author and film animator. The time has therefore come for a more comprehensive picture of Muster’s extraordinary oeuvre.
He thus also emerges as a caricaturist of the highest—virtually world-class—caliber, and within the Slovenian context he stands in fact right alongside Hinko Smrekar. This is a particular paradox, as both were, in their stylistic practice, traditionalists—anachronists who paid little heed to contemporary modernist exhibitions (later strongly relativized in postmodernism). In this sense, they are winners by virtue of their radical insistence on fundamental craft perfectionism and sharply satirical social commentary.
The second article, written 70 years later, is dedicated to the exhibitions marking the centenary of Muster’s birth—a smaller, more intimate one at the Mestni muzej, and a larger one at the NUK, featuring an overview of published material.
