Shreds vol.1 (the Best)

A portable selection of found papers, tickets and other fragments gathered during the artists’ travels and kept in a small pink folder as “the best” of the most insignificant and delightful shreds.

170613 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A found fragment of thin printed paper with an image of an island and palms, worn through at the centre. The object is stable; its remembered place of discovery is not.
170621 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)The work begins with an image the artists did not make. They retained a found sheet and added a postcard; the labyrinth, running figure, `Go`, and `This is the end` were already there.
170623 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage of technical drawing fragments and scraps of printed art matter. The exact occasion of assembly is no longer established.
170629 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)The sheet combines an unidentified drawing with a wave form the artists later recognize as belonging to the Index of Noise.
170701 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A torn magazine image from the stock of old GEO magazines the artists dismantled in Dresden. Fragments from that stock were used both in the Dresden Room installation and in collages.
170702 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A Budapest paper carrying the word `Power` and a drawn bundle of intentionality, made within the artists’ attempts to visualize perception.
170711 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage of GEO fragments, a postcard from the Uffizi, and remnants of metallic tape previously used to attach images to a wall in Dresden.
170728 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A fragment of graphic experiments carrying the stamp `Music Does Not Speak`, with traces of oil, acrylic and ink.
170729 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage of found fragments combining a child’s drawing, an anatomical image, wrestler stamps, and the phrases `Apply glitter to your face` and `House sends delight`.
170802 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A Budapest paper carrying the text of Toto Cutugno’s `Soli`. It belonged to a group of sheets subjected to physical treatments, including soaking in the Danube, and was kept on the artists’ door.
170803 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A printed page sprayed green, overlaid with a round fragment of foil, and marked with a drawn cone.
170804 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A found magazine spread painted white and overlaid with a found footballer stamp image. It belongs to the artists’ attempt to make an image evade its original content.
170805 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage combining graphic fragments, material from a Palladio album, and pages from a book of engravings.
170806 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A found newspaper image of an Indigenous man with a bow is overworked with a thick white acrylic cloud.
170808 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A photograph of Marika doing yoga beside the artists’ belongings during a 2015 night on the beach in Cadaqués. It later entered the photographs buried near Moscow in 2018 and shows probable moisture damage.
170810 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A photograph of Marika riding a bicycle in Berlin, made within a larger one-day photographic series in summer 2015.
170812 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A fragment of a GEO magazine page showing Yemeni fishermen, formerly kept on the wall of the artists’ Dresden office.
170813 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage assembled from fragments of books found in the street.
170814 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A pastel drawing by Marika after motifs remembered as Arab or Persian.
170815 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A surviving chaotic collage from a larger 2015 group, most of which was destroyed. It was kept in The Best precisely because it was among the least legible examples.
170816 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A preparatory drawing by Marika for Bubble Opera, conceived as a metaphysical diagram of the ontology of an event.
170820 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A photograph of the artists’ sleeping place on a pier in Cadaqués after their belongings were stolen in 2015. The photograph was later among those buried near Moscow in 2018.
170821 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage made in Karlsruhe for an exhibition at the UND festival from book pages and other fragments.
170822 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A drawing with typewritten text about Samotryas.
170826 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)An unidentified drawing whose origin is no longer known.
170829 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A composite formed when fragments from different years adhered to one another in storage: street-found leopard-patterned cardboard, a magazine fragment, and a piece of ink drawing made with seawater in Cadaqués.
170830 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage combining a GEO fragment of Yemeni fishermen, a drawing in white paint, and other unidentified paper fragments.
170831 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A typewritten list of words dictated by Vova 110 after the artists asked him for “the best word.” The sheet was later combined with a photograph of Marika swimming in a Cadaqués pool identified by the artists as Salvador Dalí’s.
170901 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A photograph of a swan from the collection of Anton’s grandmother.
170902 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A collage combining a fragment from a Palladio book with a piece of an Italian newspaper showing footballers.
190326 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A photograph of the artists’ belongings in Korea in a restrained grey-white range. The artists now use this range as a colour calibration for later paintings.
220306 Shreds vol.1 (the Best)A graphic work drawn by Anton in Dečín, related by the artists to Oil & Blood but explicitly not included in that Series.