Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Summer MMX I

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 served as dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively works in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects both 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 numerous awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. His existence in the fields of painting has been marked by works—those first created during his activities within the group “Biafra” (from 1970), expressive portraits of famous people, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has 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 fine master who does not suppress expression through figurative expression.