COPYRIGHT/LEGAL ISSUES OF EXHIBITING AND PURCHASING AN ART INSTALLATION INCLUDING AN ARTWORK BY ANOTHER AUTHOR

This paper deals with a challenging museological problem in connection with copyright/legal issues of exhibiting and purchasing Jusuf Hadžifejzović’s art installation which - as its constitutional part - includes an artwork by another author. At 2003 solo exhibition organised by Rijeka Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Hadžifejzović has exhibited work titled Rijeka Depot 87-03, by which he reconstructed and reinterpreted installation made at the 14th Biennial of Young Artists in Rijeka, held in 1987. The installation comprised of ready-made objects (museum scales with weights and 25 ß ags of countries participating at the International Exhibition of Drawings, that were exhibited at the Museums’ facade during the actual exhibition). The installation also included bronze statue titled Sculptor by Croatian modernist sculptor Frane Kršinić (1897-1982), an artwork from the Museum’s holdings. Contemporary art practice encounters numerous examples of usage, reinterpretation, quoting and similar procedures in using the already existent artworks. However, after deciding to purchase the abovementioned installation, curators have – for the first time – faced the issue of how to exactly purchase the piece of art which as its constituent part includes the artwork by another artist, and which in this case is also a museum piece and hence belongs to a museum collection. The exposition will expound on such cases and necessary procedures complying a new Croatian Copyright and Related Rights Act