Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Jytka

He was born in 1945 in Koprivnica. After finishing high school, he enrolled at ALU 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 ALU in Zagreb where he still works as a full professor and was also dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively worked in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects both domestically and abroad, 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, authored by Tonko Maroević, was published. 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 was marked by works—the first ones created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), expressive portraits of well-known persons, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author inherited a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and a 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 with figurative expression.