Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Post nubilaPhoebus

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 Prof. Miljenko Stančić and immediately became a collaborator of the master workshop of Prof. K. Hegedušić, and in 1973 he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he currently works as a full professor and served as dean for a period. In addition to painting and graphics, he has intensively worked in scenography and costume design, collaborating on around one hundred theatre 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 by Tonko Maroević was published about him. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atac’s existence in the fields of painting was marked by works — the first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (since 1970), expressive portraits of famous persons, nudes, and numerous self-portraits. From the very beginning, the author inherited a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is nudes immersed in water where 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 by figurative expression.