Formica & Design

(...) French artist JLG has shedded the laminate to develop a "stratified straw" material, which is then made into paneling and used to re-cover or wrap the pedestals of public sculptures and the façades of buildings, as well as being made into self-supporting wall mounts (...) An other series, Modul'art, explores the use of shedded Formica laminate as a paintterly medium to produce graphic images, such as road maps, musical scores, and sheet graphics. These textural patterns, sinuous and spaghettilike, are both ready-made, found objects, seemingly anonymously mounted for display, and a commentary about the 1980 s' obsession with refiting the earth with industrially produced products.

in FROM THE COUNTER TOP TO HIGHT ART _ Susan Grant Lewin _ Edition : Rizzoli New York_ Special thanks to:  Marybeth Shaw, New York.