On their website bragging about the municipality of Oslo of an art collection consisting of 19 000 works, to the delight of townspeople and visitors in the city’s public buildings and utendørsarealer.
Now has the Newspaper been given the knowledge that Kulturetaten in 2014 suggested that the municipality disposes with 11 000 of these works.
This project of a document Dagbladet has gained access to. The document was sent from the Kulturetaten to Byrådsavdelingen for culture and industry, and trades on the Kulturetatens sorteringsprosjekt.
Sorteringsprosjektet was initiated in 2013, five years after the first report from the kommunerevisjonen who criticized the municipality for failure to control over the art collection. The project is now completed, and a report is expected in the foreseeable future.
In 2017 revealed the Newspaper that the 1642 work of art in the collection is listed as “not found”.
In the document suggests Kulturetaten that works with low art – and the dollar value, which has been missing for a long time, emanates from the collection. Measures to search for missing art is proposed only for “major works with high artistic quality” and “works of art with good quality”.
Sladdet document
Multiple paragraphs in the document Dagbladet received was sladdet with black marker. This was justified in the following way:
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“the Information is branded in accordance with section 14 of the organinterne documents prepared for the internal saksforberedelser”.
This gets a lawyer Kristine Foss in Presseforbundet to stusse.
It was new. Section 14 has nothing to do with confidentiality to do. It is wrong, she says to Dagbladet.
the Document can according to the Waterfall rather not be considered organinternt, since it is forwarded to the Byrådsavdelingen.
– So this reasoning is just nonsense?
– Yes, it sounds completely wrong to me.
MISSING: the Graphics of the Hroar Herman Consortium was among the art that was listed as “not found” in 2017. Photo: Kulturetaten Show more
Kulturetaten says the case still is pending in the Byrådsavdeling for the culture and nourishment.
The parts of the document that Kulturetaten have found reason to exclude, is overstrøket with black marker, and include suggestions for conclusions on some of the fundamental artistic issues that the agency wants a professional and political support from our parent byrådsavdeling. It has been important for Kulturetaten not to contribute to disclose our proposal to conclusions before byrådsavdeling have been given the opportunity to complete the case, enter a communications advisor Elf Hågård Gustavsen in Kulturetaten in an email to Dagbladet.
the Newspaper has complained that it has not been given access to the whole document. Kulturetaten say they have the complaint within to the treatment.
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– Maintains Kulturetaten his stand, will the matter be sent on to treatment in Oslo municipality appellate body, ” says Gustavsen.
Transparent
your drift was, however, not so thick that the Dagbladet journalist could not read through it.
In a paragraph about the sorting of the collection, the following may be read through the marker:
“Work with low/no arts or dollar value is proposed to be discontinued from the collection through the transfer of businesses, disposal and sale. The collection is estimated reduced to approx. 8000 work”.
According to the Oslo municipality’s website, contains the collection today 19 000 works. It means in other words that the 11 000 work expires.
Dagbladet has asked Kulturetaten about this means that 11 000 of the works in the collection are either feilregistrert, heavily damaged or “works with low/no arts or dollar value”.
We have also tried to get answers on whether the figures from the 2014 match with the newer numbers. Kulturetaten will not answer these questions before the report about sorteringsprosjektet are completed.
– No quality-related criteria
The deployed art is described as “of very varying degrees of artistic value and quality”. The vision of the deployed art should be to the delight of the city’s population, according to the document “does not adequately safeguarded”.
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Up through the years, several posters, private purchased pictures and other things without high art – or dollar value has been stamped with the kunstsamlingens registration number. All that was stamped went automatically into the Oslo municipality’s art collection.
Under the heading “Historical background – the accumulation or collection of art?”, is it described how the “løskunst”collection was the municipality in the period. The document defines “løskunst” as “portable art objects in a smaller format”. Løskunsten make up most of the regarding art.
the Document refers to a comprehensive registreringsprosjekt that took place between 1995 and 1999. It was completed by Art in Oslo, at the time, organized under the Oslo municipality’s art collection.
“the Project gave an improved view, but there was no quality-related criteria to assess. Art enterprises had acquired in the form of a more or less random gifts and purchases was also registered,” it says further.
most of these works have according to the document, little or no artistic value.
Dagbladet has been in dialogue with the Kulturetaten. They will not comment on the content of the document.
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