About
Coming from a family of artists and surrounded by artist friends, Guillaume Hérisson built OneRecord.art to answer a question that kept coming up: how do you catalog an artist's body of work, and keep it in order?
The problem is a familiar one. A spreadsheet that has outgrown itself, a folder of photographs named by the camera, a notebook only one person can read — the records exist, they simply do not live in the same place, and what one person knows is not what the next one inherits.
So the aim was a plain one: make cataloguing easy, quick to begin, and about what actually matters. What the work is, what it is made of, how large it is, when and where it was made, what it is worth, and above all what it looks like. Nothing else is asked for.
It is built for the people who carry that responsibility — artists themselves, their families and estates, and the galleries and archivists who look after the work. A body of work should be able to be documented, kept and passed on without the tool getting in the way.
That is the whole of it. No advertising, no analytics, and nothing done with a catalog that its owner did not ask for.