Fire! Fire! Fire! Yellow smoke is drifting from the basement of an office building in a central place of Vienna. A truck from the fire brigade is standing next to the building, but the firefighters don’t care. What is going on? Well, the solving of this marvel: It’s not a fire. It’s contemporary art.
The intervention by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is named ‘Yellow Fog’. Every day at dusk, a kind of yellow fog rises on the façade of the VERBUND headquarters.
What about the truck of the fire brigade? Well, the office building stands next to the central fire station of Vienna. So the fire engine is just waiting for the next operation there.
Sources / More info
- Olafur Eliasson (Official Website)
- Olafur Eliasson (Wikipedia)