Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Sofia

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 of professor K. Hegedušić’s master workshop. 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 dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphic arts, he intensively worked on scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects at home 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, as well as the Danica order for cultural merits. Atac’s existence in the field of painting is marked by works — initially created during his involvement within the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous individuals in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has embodied a sense of the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painterly 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.