Hop On Hop Off
von Volker RennerDie Fotografien in Volker Renners Künstlerbuch „Hop On Hop Off“ sind auf Sightseeing-Touren durch Metropolen entstanden. Der Künstler verwandelt sich an Bord verschiedener Touristenbusse in eine mobile Überwachungskamera, die Sehenswürdigkeiten negiert und bewegliche Ziele fixiert. Aus der Perspektive des fahrenden Flaneurs verschmelzen versiegelte Städte zu einem Amalgam aus Passanten, Motorhauben und Asphalt, für den fossiler Sonnenschein in seine endgültige Form gebracht wurde. Statt Ansichtskarten sendet Renner Betonstudien, statt Instagram-Motiven Captcha-Bilder, die den Unterschied zwischen Mensch und Maschine verwischen und die Betrachter orientierungslos zurücklassen.
Hop On Hop Off
The photographs in Volker Renner’s artist’s book “Hop On Hop Off” were taken during sightseeing tours through big cities. Boarding a variety of tourist buses, the artist transforms into a mobile surveillance camera that negates sights and trains its lens on moving targets. In the perspective of the wheeled flaneur, the cityscape’s impervious surfaces fuse into an amalgam of pedestrians, car hoods, and asphalt, for which fossilized sunshine was cast into its definitive form. Renner sends concrete studies rather than picture postcards and Captcha images rather than Instagram motifs, blurring the distinction between human and machine and leaving the beholder dizzy and disoriented.
Hop On Hop Off
The photographs in Volker Renner’s artist’s book “Hop On Hop Off” were taken during sightseeing tours through big cities. Boarding a variety of tourist buses, the artist transforms into a mobile surveillance camera that negates sights and trains its lens on moving targets. In the perspective of the wheeled flaneur, the cityscape’s impervious surfaces fuse into an amalgam of pedestrians, car hoods, and asphalt, for which fossilized sunshine was cast into its definitive form. Renner sends concrete studies rather than picture postcards and Captcha images rather than Instagram motifs, blurring the distinction between human and machine and leaving the beholder dizzy and disoriented.