Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – 90x65x90

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 with the work of the Student Experimental Theatre. He graduated in the class of Professor Miljenko Stančić and immediately became an associate of the master workshop of Professor K. Hegedušić, and in 1973 he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he still works as a full professor and was dean for a time. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre 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 about him was published, written by Tonko Maroević. He has received many awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atać’s existence in the fields of painting has been marked by works — the first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous persons in expressive motion, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has inherited a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation consists of nudes immersed in water where drawing is replaced by the dominance of pure painterly treatment of the surface with color, revealing the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression through figurative articulation.