Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Skiing “Wagrain”

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 became involved in the work of the Student Experimental Theatre. He graduated under the mentorship of Professor Miljenko Stančić and immediately became a collaborator in the master workshop of Professor 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 dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he engaged intensively in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theater projects 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 signed by Tonko Maroević was published about him. He is the recipient of numerous awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atačevo’s existence in the fields of painting was marked by works—those first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous people in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has inherited a sense of expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painterly preoccupation is nudes immersed in water, in which drawing is replaced by the dominance of pure painterly treatment of the surface with color, revealing all the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression with figurative expression.