Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – In Motion

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 joined 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. In 1973, he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he currently works as a full professor and was dean for a period of time. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively engages in scenography and costume design, having collaborated on about a hundred theatre projects both domestically and internationally 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 many awards for painting and scenography, including the Danica Order for merits in culture. Atac’s existence in the field of painting has been marked by works created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), expressive portraits of well-known personalities, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the artist 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 handling of the surface with color, revealing all the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression with figurative expression.