Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Summer 2013

He was born in 1945 in Koprivnica. After completing high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. During his studies, he became involved with the Students’ 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 served a term as dean. In addition to painting and graphics, he is intensely engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theater 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 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. Atačevo’s existence in the fields of painting was marked by works—those first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous people in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author inherited a sense of expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and 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 language.