Where are the Trolls at Slussen in Stockholm?

The Trolls at Slussen. A detail from the artists' book by Malte Axelsson The Trolls at Slussen. A detail from the artists' book by Malte Axelsson

Should the area be for people, traffic, waterfront views, architectural inventions or include everything at the same time? The debate about the area ”Slussen” has been going on for a long time.  It is an important silhouette and traffic facility in Stockholm. Now it is in bad conditions after more than seventy years of use and in need for new urban design and renewal of the entire infrastructure. The new master plan has been shown until some weeks ago in the information office of the City of Stockholm.

 

I wonder where the small Slussen-trolls have gone now? In a big rectangular artists’ book with the title “Sluss-Trollen Rull” an unknown artist has created a story around trolls, or rather a small family of cars. The book is printed in serigraphy, by the hands of Malte Axelsson.  Modernistic with constant bold perspectives and views. In a very special colour-scale - I can still smell the pigments from the prints from 1963. Ash-grey, arsenic, Bleu de France, blue gray together with brick red, citrine, bubble-gum and dark champagne.

 

The family “Rull” or “Roll” lives in Slussen and love their small world. People never see them because humans are only thinking of themselves. A transparent tunnel-ghost called “Thin” also lives there and tells the family stories about the world outside. The family is often found by a gas station, drinking petrol. Little “Rush” likes to blend the petrol with oil – although that’s not good for your figure. “Rally” enjoys to rally around for hours and hours, but the trolls also likes to turn off the engines just to watch other cars and inhale the lovely smell of petrol. Fresh air is more of a nasty smell.  They love technique, moving stairways and all their multi-faceted relatives with different engines, colours, sizes and shapes that rolls the streets both day and night.

 

If you want to see and read more about the plans to lure the trolls out of Slussen:

http://www.stockholm.se/slussen and see films and photos, follow the link “In English” for text.

 

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