Every work has a history.

PYLOS is the system of record for physical artwork.

Keep artworks, editions, ownership, custody, location and provenance connected in one continuous record.

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Record fragment

PYL-00243

Untitled

2026

Unit: 03 / 15
Location: Madrid
Owner: Private Collection

Continued —

02The model

The work remains.
The record grows.

A work can change location, ownership, custody and context. PYLOS keeps those changes connected to the same identity.

Artwork
Untitled
2026
Production variant
Pigment print
40 × 60 cm
Unit
03 / 15
History
Produced
Exhibited
Sold
Loaned

One work — many physical units

Untitled, 2026

Pigment print · 40 × 60 cm

01 / 15
02 / 15
03 / 15

Pigment print · 80 × 120 cm

01 / 07
02 / 07

03Record

Know what it is.
Know where it has been.

One work. One connected record.

Identity, production, ownership, custody, location and history — kept together over time.

PYL-00243

Untitled

2026

Artwork: Untitled, 2026
Production variant: Pigment print / 40 × 60 cm
Unit: 03 / 15

Owner: Private Collection; Who holds title
Custodian: Galerie X; Who physically holds it
Location: Basel; Where it is

StatusOn loan

04History

History accumulates.

Same work

PYL-00243

Owner: Private Collection
Custodian: Museum
Location: London

Current state

2026ProducedMadrid
2026ExhibitedParis
2027SoldPrivate Collection
2028ConsignedGalerie X
2029Museum LoanLondon

05Physical world

Reverse of a framed work showing an archival framing label with a handwritten edition number — Verso — archival label, edition 12 / 50

Built for works that exist in the world.

Physical works move.
PYLOS keeps their record moving with them.

Gloved hands lifting a glassine-wrapped work out of a plywood art crate — Crated for transit — studio to institution

06For artists and studios

From studio record to provenance.

01 — Create

Record the work.

Connect the artwork to production variants, editions and individual physical units.

Artwork
Variant
Unit

02 — Move

Know where it is.

Ownership, custody and physical location are not always the same thing.

Owner — Private Collection
Custodian — Gallery
Location — Basel

03 — Build history

Let provenance accumulate.

Sales, exhibitions, consignments, loans and movements become part of the record as they happen.

Produced
Exhibited
Sold
Loaned

07Why PYLOS

Pylos lost its palace to fire.
The same fire saved its records.

More than three thousand years ago, administrative records at Pylos documented the physical world around the palace on clay tablets. Normally air-dried, they were accidentally fired into permanence when the palace burned.

At Pylos, the physical world became record.

Detail of an incised clay tablet fragment showing administrative script — Inscribed clay — accidental permanence

An artwork has an origin.
An object has a journey.
The record keeps them connected.

08Differentiation

Not another image library.

PYLOS is built around the physical work itself — its production, individual units and history.