Micky Pulong
creative artist
Painter - Sculptor
Born in the Basque Country French, at Saint Palais.
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Close to nature and the ocean since always, it is impregnates to create a very intimate universe tinged with poetry, love and colors.
Self-taught since adolescence, he began his long apprenticeship in impressionist painting alongside the Basque painters of the 90s.
Biography
Like all children, his passion for drawing and colors was boundless, except that he never stopped. His first painting competition at the age of 16 in Salies de Béarn offered him the possibility of winning the second prize for young talents, and encouraged him to continue on this path.
His first public exhibition as a self-taught painter in 1992 alongside the works of painter Pierre Lansalot (1919-1989) in the southwest of France, set him on the path to a passion for art. art that will henceforth be part of his life. In 1998 he moved to Paris in the emblematic artistic district of Montmartre where he stayed for many years, thus rubbing shoulders with the Parisian artistic community.
At the same time, he learned the Vietnamese language at the faculty of Paris and became passionate about Asian cultures and their arts, which he describes as: "the art of the mind and the body". Over the years his travels and stays in South East Asia and Indonesia will refine his multicultural and multidisciplinary openness that he preserves today with ardor. In Hanoi, he finds in particular the practice of very sensory drawing with Indian inks. Stimulated by his learning of the mastered simplicity of the line and its incredible strength, he now conceives some of his work by the importance of the power of the line.
creative process
The ocean is part of his greatest source of inspiration. He approaches this aspiring and addictive environment through graphic compositions loaded with both poetry and controlled power. His workshop most often breathes the atmosphere of a ring where he fights with shapes, love, colors and emotions.
He approaches a graphic design based on the focus of an element, a wave, an ocean atmosphere or even sensory imagination between human beings and the sea. He recognizes that it is not always easy to mix strength, softness and transparency in a single wave, and yet this is what the ocean inspires in him. His endless hours of observation of maritime elements are an integral part of his creative process.
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Depending on the projects, several types of mediums are used: oil, acrylic, India ink and watercolour.
A dominant use of paint with a knife and a minimalist approach to his color palette make compositions both structured and borrowed from a simplified color chart. His palette is based on 5 colors that are almost permanent in his compositions: Turquoise Blue, Cobalt Blue, Prussian Blue, Dark Cadmium Yellow and Carmine Red.
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He approaches sculpture with a movement strategy close to his knife work in painting. The subject matter itself finds its strength in its own molecular composition. These latest projects use recycled materials that are prepared to become a new commodity. He approaches 3D form as the most primitive artistic vision of man.
Music is also an essential nourishment in his creative development. There is no predefined musical style, but rather an intimacy that is created between the musical rhythmic models and the creative impulses of his works. There is a force in the execution of his work which harmonizes with musical emotions chosen.
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