Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Summer 2015

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 an associate 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 still works as a full professor and was dean for a period. Besides painting and graphics, he has intensively worked in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects both in the country 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 by Tonko Maroević was published about him. He is a recipient of many awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for cultural merits. His presence in the field of painting has been marked by works that originated during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous people in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginnings, the author inherits 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 through figurative expression.