AP, ISHOJ, Denmark
For more than a decade, Danish recycling artist Thomas Dambo has scattered wooden troll sculptures around the world. He has created almost 200 in 19 countries.Now the poet and former hip-hop artist is bringing a collection of fairy tale-inspired creations in from the cold for his first museum exhibition.“The Garbage Man,” at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art on the outskirts of Copenhagen, tells the story of a group of mischievous trolls who secretly move into the museum, take it over and redesign it.
Danish recycling artist Thomas Dambo poses with his troll sculpture Dyna Dee at his new exhibition titled “The Garbage Man” at Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in Ishoj, Denmark, on Thursday last week.
“They build and leave a giant human made of trash... as a lesson for the humans to behave better and don’t put their trash where everybody else lives,” Dambo said.The 46-year-old artist started spreading his trolls back in 2014, when he built two sculptures for a Danish music festival.
Two years later, he hid six giant trolls in wooded areas around Copenhagen. The project went viral, drawing millions of viewers online.
