Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Summer 2013 “The Unrepeatable Moment”

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 currently works as a full professor and was also the dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theater projects 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 authored 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. Atačevo’s existence in the fields of painting has been marked by works—those first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (since 1970), portraits of famous people in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the artist embraces a sense of momentary expression, 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 the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression with figurative expression.