Oneliners

ONELINERS

The Team

• Ciska Swaak
• Sjoerd van Rijsbergen
• Jermaine van der Kolk
• Robin Hendriks
• Tineke van Hilten

What's worth stealing?

What does a team of designers want to steal? A whole work of art? Or just a tiny detail?

One of the things that sparked out interest was the texture and contours found in the various works of art. Textures like the strokes of a brush and grooves found in different materials. We set out to find a way to capture these and reproduce them as a tiny detail from the work of art. The capturing of textures requires a high resolution and bright light. If we build a rig that hold several lights around a mobile phone to serve as a ring flash, are we able to get away with lights in the museum? Will the resolution be high enough, how many lights do we need? After our research we still had many questions and the Heist was the next day, we realised there wasn't enough time to execute this project in the way we wanted.

What is the essence of a work of art? Some works are possible to be identified with only one line. We decided to capture the contour of various works of art and reproduce them in different ways.

The tools

It's not the Kunsthal, so we need a plan to get in with our device!

The tool couldn't be too big and easy to hide. For capturing the contour we chose to use metal wire, we tried various types of metal and a thick coated aluminium was the best choose. Easy to manipulate, but sturdy enough to keep it's own shape. To hold the wire in place a wooden handle was made.

The Heist

After a few preparations we were ready for the Heist! Robin was wearing the precut metal wire around her wrist like a bracelet and the handles were tucked away in our pockets.

The plan was to capture as much contours as we could. Sjoerd was the first one to try and captured the shape of a Dali painting, Tineke was capturing the Heist on photo and the others kept an eye on the security guard, who kept roaming around after he guided a restored painting to another hall. After the first success we got more bold with the second attempt and Jermaine captured the 'Toren van Babel' by Ted Noten in front of a security guard, he got some wierd looks, but nothing happened!