Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – From the Back

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 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 now works as a full professor and for a time served as dean. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively engages in scenography and costume design, having collaborated on about a hundred theater projects both domestically and abroad, as well as several film and television productions. 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, as well as the Order of Danica for cultural merits. His artistic existence in the fields of painting was marked by works created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), expressive portraits of famous people, nudes, and numerous self-portraits. From the very beginning, the artist inherits a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and his characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is with nudes submerged in water, where drawing is replaced by the dominance of pure pictorial treatment of the surface with color, revealing all the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression with figurative expression.