Antun Maračić

Antun Maračić (Nova Gradiška, December 12, 1950 – Zagreb, October 25, 2023) was a Croatian visual artist and critic. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1976 in the class of Šime Perić. He was an associate of the Master Workshop of Ljubo Ivančić and Nikola Reiser (1976 – 1979). He was the manager of the Zvonimir Gallery (1992 – 1997) and the Extended Media Gallery (1998 – 2000) in Zagreb, the director of the Art Gallery in Dubrovnik (2000 – 2012), and then the manager of the Forum Gallery in Zagreb. At first, he was primarily engaged in painting, then leaning towards conceptual multimedia work, especially in photography. He is the author of art criticism, prefaces to catalogs and monographs (Pavo Urban – last pictures, 1998) and several conceptual exhibitions and television films. In 1995, as the author of the text and photographs, together with the art historian Evelina Turković, he published a monographic book about the sculptor Ivan Kožarić entitled Atelier Kožarić.