Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Curator S

He was born in 1945 in Koprivnica. After finishing high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. During his studies, he joined the work of the Student Experimental Theatre. He graduated in the class of Prof. Miljenko Stančić and immediately became a collaborator in the master workshop of Prof. K. Hegedušić. In 1973, he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he currently works as a full professor and was also dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively works in scenography and costume design, having collaborated on about a hundred theatre projects both domestically and internationally, as well as several film and television projects. He is also the author of several visual interventions in public spaces. In 1996, a monograph about him was published by Tonko Maroević. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography, as well as the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atac’s existence in the fields of painting has been marked by works – those first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous individuals in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has embraced a sense of expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation involves nudes immersed in water, where drawing is replaced by the domination of pure painterly treatment of the surface with color, revealing all the virtuosity of a master craftsman who does not suppress expression through figurative depiction.