Olivia Wünsche, 2022
Journal
Publisher: Olivia Wünsche
Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm
Publisher: Olivia Wünsche
Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm
Vanguard Union Press is an artistic reflection platform founded by Olivia Wünsche, born from a desire to slow down our gaze on the figures shaping contemporary creation. Each issue focuses on a single subject, creating living monographs infused with a strong trust between the author and her interviewee, blending photographs and interviews to reveal both the work and the person behind it. In an editorial landscape saturated with fast images and short formats, Vanguard Union Press champions a slow temporality, a proximity built with patience, and an uncompromising standard of sincerity that brings this publication as close to a document as it is to a work of art.
The first issue is dedicated to Dylan Solomon Kraus. Born in Ohio (USA) in 1987, and currently dividing his time between Berlin and New York, Kraus is best known for his dreamlike nocturnal landscapes, which blend themes related to the human psyche, the clockwork mechanics of the cosmos, and multi-layered spiritual symbolism. Having grown up between hiking and camping, the artist appears to have drawn from these early experiences a profound respect for nature, which is now visibly at the foundation of his work. The interview covers a wide range of subjects: power structures, social upheavals, the collapse of civilizations, and technological dependency, as well as the intelligence of nature and the hope Dylan places in regenerative agriculture.
