Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Drawing

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, and in 1973 he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he now works as a full professor and was for a time the dean. Alongside painting and graphics, he has been intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on around a hundred theatrical 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 written by Tonko Maroević was published about him. He is the recipient of numerous awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for cultural contributions. His existence in the field of painting has been marked by works — the earliest created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous individuals in expressive motion, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has inherited a sense of expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and a characteristic artistic engagement. His current pictorial preoccupation is with 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.