Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova was as surprised as anyone when she received a phone call in 2015 informing her that thieves had stolen two of her paintings from a gallery in Oslo, Norway.“I just felt very confused,” she recalls, “why somebody would decide to break a law in order to get my work.
Because I’m not a known artist that would be worth it to steal. I’m not Lucian Freud, so it doesn’t make sense to me.”What happened next might not make sense to many others.
After the alleged thieves were apprehended, Kysilkova showed up at a court hearing for the suspects, one of whom was a heavily tattooed, intimidating-looking character named Karl-Bertil Nordland.
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