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Yellow Fog

Olafur Eliasson holding a speech during the presentation of his "Yellow Fog" on the Facade of Verbund's "Am Hof" Building in Vienna..From today, the center of Vienna acts as showcase for Verbund's permanent presentation of the artwork "Yellow Fog" - Olafur Eliasson's first intervention in a public space in Vienna. Olafur Eliasson is one of the most renowned artists of modern times. His impressive work "Yellow Fog" first shown in New York in 1988 can now be seen exclusively and permanently in Vienna. The site of the interventions are the Verbund building and the historic "Am Hof" square, which will be transformed daily into a public stage for a show of light and fog during the hours of dusk..Embedded in the pavement along the front of Verbund's headquarters is a framework containing 32 luminescent tubes, providing a broad, uniform light. After the fall of dusk, fog rises for approximately 40 seconds in a yellow light upwards to the height of the facade. In intervals of approximately three minutes, the process is repeated and envelops the building in a momentary fog over the course of one hour.

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Heimo Aga 2008
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Olafur Eliasson holding a speech during the presentation of his "Yellow Fog" on the Facade of Verbund's "Am Hof" Building in Vienna..From today, the center of Vienna acts as showcase for Verbund's permanent presentation of the artwork "Yellow Fog" - Olafur Eliasson's first intervention in a public space in Vienna. Olafur Eliasson is one of the most renowned artists of modern times. His impressive work "Yellow Fog" first shown in New York in 1988 can now be seen exclusively and permanently in Vienna. The site of the interventions are the Verbund building and the historic "Am Hof" square, which will be transformed daily into a public stage for a show of light and fog during the hours of dusk..Embedded in the pavement along the front of Verbund's headquarters is a framework containing 32 luminescent tubes, providing a broad, uniform light. After the fall of dusk, fog rises for approximately 40 seconds in a yellow light upwards to the height of the facade. In intervals of approximately three minutes, the process is repeated and envelops the building in a momentary fog over the course of one hour.