Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – In the Pool II

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 with 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 still works as a full professor and served as dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he is intensively involved in scenography and costume design, having collaborated 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 authored by Tonko Maroević was published about him. He has received many awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atačevo’s existence in the fields of painting was marked by works—those first created during his involvement with the “Biafra” group (from 1970), expressive portraits of famous individuals, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has inherited a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and a characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is with 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.