Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – At the End of Summer

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 Professor Miljenko Stančić and immediately became an associate in the master workshop of Professor K. Hegedušić. In 1973, he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he now works as a full professor and for a time served as dean. Alongside painting and graphic arts, he has been intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre 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 about him was published, authored by Tonko Maroević. He has received many awards for painting and scenography, as well as the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atać’s existence in the fields of painting has been marked by works created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), expressive portraits of famous persons, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the artist inherits a feeling for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is nudes immersed in water, in which 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.