Prof. Miroslav Gašparović
Director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb
Excerpt from the exhibition's accompanying text
Zlatan Vrkljan
He graduated in 1979 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with Prof. Šime Perić. From 1979 to 1981 he was a colleague of the master workshop of professors Ljub Ivančić and Nikola Reiser.
Between 1987 and 1994, he was an assistant and docent at the Academy for Fine Arts in Zagreb and the founder of Zagreb Arteria Gallery, which he managed as artistic director until the year 1999. The same year he represented Croatia at the Venice Biennale.
From 2006 to 2020, he was a full professor at the Department of painting, since 2014 he is a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Art.