16 Bjarne Melgaard-the paintings are stuck in customs at the Airport, because the customs for a job doesn’t mean the images can be classified as works of art.
the customs for a job demanded 1.3 million for bjarne Melgaard, who is Norway’s most famous contemporary artists, should get out their images.
In the current regulations can present artists in certain conditions, importing your own original artwork for free. According to the customs for a job can’t Melgaard’s picture is considered art, because parts of the image are digitally produced. The reason they write:
“the Image is not performed completely by hand since the canvas is made digitally (the marks on the canvas are included as a part of the subject of the painting) and can therefore tariffmessig not be regarded as a painting”.
attention: minister of finance Siv Jensen change customs rules of art.
Photo: Johansen, Carina / NTB Scanpix
Now grabs the Norwegian minister of finance Siv Jensen into the case to change the rules.
Art shall be exempt from value added tax. What is art in this context is connected to the part number in the customs tariff. The link will now be removed. The regulations should be updated so that it becomes more timely, ” says Jensen.
Changed in a few days
– I have to say that the case of NRK, had today the early shows with all clarity that the regulations may give unreasonable outcomes. Therefore, I have asked tolldirektoratet resolve the matter related to Bjarne Melgaard as quickly as possible.
According to Jensen will regelendringen enter into force in the course of a few days.
It is my hope. This means that both the updated regulations and that this matter be resolved shortly. The moment we get solved the case, so is Melgaard’s challenges solved, in any case, in this context, ” says Jensen.
Stopped art multiple times
This is not the first time artists have had to wave goodbye to his art because of the Customs at the Airport. In april had to wait Marit Følstad going to court in order to be successful in her art, not only was a lysskilt.
Why have you not made any changes in the regulations in the past?
– It is a very good question. The important thing is that now there will be a solution to this. Now cuts through and cleans up, says Jensen.
WON IN COURT: the Artist Marit Følstad got earlier in the year the court upheld in that her work is art, and not lysskilt.
Photo: Gaute Zakariassen / Marit Følstad / NRK
– Can you guarantee that other artists do not come in the same situation in the future?
It is at least such that we need to have a more precise set of rules. However, it should not be possible to circumvent this by interpreting things in a wrong way. It should be an easier set of regulations that should be easy to understand, and easier to handle for the agencies that have the responsibility, ” says Jensen.
Følstad, who won the trial against the customs for a job earlier in the year, believes it is time for a new and clearer regulations.
– There are many more than me and Bjarne Melgaard who has experienced this. Must we really go to court and fight about these issues every time we have introduced our own art to the country? ask the artist.
– Bureaucratic frenzy
Jensen is not alone to see it unreasonable in the current regulations. Munchmuseets curator Lars Toft-Eriksen, believes it is absurd that to apply such a notion of art in 2016.
If you want to let the jusen define art, then you must look at the context around the artwork and the samfunnsrammen the object is included in. Today there will be too much emphasis on the material and handverksmessige aspects, ” says Toft-Eriksen.
Haakon Thuestad, director of the Bergen Assembly, believes that there is an overzealous interpretation of the regulations.
I believe it is in the process of developing themselves to a bureaucratic frenzy. The customs and the bureaucracy goes into a discussion about what is art, ” he says to NRK.
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