Robert Wogensky, In Flight, 1970s, Formica

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Robert wogensky (1919-2019) - in flight. Limited edition pressed board by formica

robert wogensky was born at 158 ​​bis, avenue … Read more Robert wogensky (1919-2019) - in flight. Limited edition pressed board by formica

robert wogensky was born at 158 ​​bis, avenue de suffren in the 15th arrondissement of paris. His family has lived in france for several generations. Brother of the architect andré wogenscky3, student from 1925 to 1937 at the lycée buffon while regularly attending museums4, robert wogensky decided to become a painter upon seeing picasso's “guernica” at the 1937 exhibition. His artistic studies at the rené jaudon workshop (where his classmate was jean-claude guignebert known as vincent, with whom he became friends of friendship4) then at the paris school of fine arts were very quickly interrupted by the war.

painting pressed in limited edition by formica on the occasion of the inauguration of the giant press at the formica factory in quillan on december 1, 1970.

inscription on the back "on the fly" composition robert wogensky on the occasion of the giant press inauguration of the formica quillan factory - aude - france on 1-12-1970

pressed in limited edition by formica

a surface scratch is present

height: 49cm - 19.29"
width: 64.5cm - 25.39"
thickness: 0.3cm - 0.11"
weight: 1.2 kg

a little history on the formica factory: in france, it was in quillan in aude that the formica factory was set up at the very beginning of the 1950s, in place of a hat factory, then in decline, the staff being maintained and trained for the new activity.

then the formica factory in quillan will experience such growth that the brand will become the economic and social engine of the entire region.

formica is a material invented in the united states at the beginning of the 20th century, initially used as an electrical insulator instead of “mica”.

the name is found “for” (for, instead of) “mica”.

in france, it arrives with the americans, at the same time as nylon and chewing gum.

“formica laminated plastic” is an assembly of sheets of kraft paper that are impregnated with synthetic resin, a polymerization phenomenon doing the rest

from there we obtain formica sheets which we place on the furniture or object that we want to make.

with the oil shock of the early 1970s, the price of resins exploded and that of formica too, the decline was felt in the mid-1970s and a social plan was implemented every two years.

the death of the factory was announced on december 5, 2003. It marked the start of difficult discussions on the social plan for the inter-union and the retraining of the 149 employees.

on june 30, 2004, the last machines from the quillan factory were loaded into moving trucks. this piece has an attribution mark,
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