CHF 5'600.00
Artist: Diego Brambilla
Year: 20 November 2018
Location: Italy
Size laminated glass: 48 × 0.4 × 58 cm
Size base (steel and concrete): 50 × 15 × 6 cm
Size artwork: 50 × 15 × 62 cm
Medium: Piezography® Pro on Handmade Superfine Bhutan 20 gr/m2
Laminated Glass: Extra clear white glass 2 × 2 mm
5 Unique Variant Works + 1 AP, Zürich
Signed, dated and numbered by the artist
Provided with a Verisart blockchain Certificate of Authenticity.
1 Available | In Studio
Diego Brambilla is an Italian and Swiss artist, based in Zürich. He completed his MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, in 2015, following a BA in Sociology and a diploma in Film Direction.
His practice operates at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and object-making, assembling fragments of reality into constructed scenarios that move between cultural references and personal introspection — holding playfulness and unease in deliberate tension. The printed image is treated as an artefact in its own right: handmade gelatin silver prints, digital outputs on handcrafted papers, archival interventions, and alternative processes are all part of a practice in which printing is as essential as capturing the image.
He is an active member of pool collective in Zurich, and of near., the Swiss association for contemporary photography. His work has received the Urbanautica WHAT’S THE URGENCY award (2021), the Photolucida Yearbook Award (2021), the Life Framer World Travelers prize (2019), and the PhotoX Award (2017), and has been shortlisted at Athens Photo Festival, Voies Off Arles, and the PhotogrVphy Grant. It has been featured in Fisheye Magazine, GUP, Wired (US and Japan), Dailybest, the Paris Opera booklet, and on Rai3.
Brambilla has worked with blackprint since 2018. His solo exhibitions at the gallery include Mingled with Voids (2023) and his solo show opening in May 2026. The collaboration has also been presented at Photo Basel 2025 and at Art Salon Zürich (2024). Earlier solo exhibitions include My First Dream at the Mudima Foundation, Milan (2018), and at Photobastei, Zurich, in collaboration with the Italian Consulate (2019).
Diego Brambilla (*1978 / Milano)
Lives and works in Zürich
What is a rock? Is it still a rock after human interference, even if artificial matter has been added?
In this series, the artist plays with the idea of the natural and the man-made. There is no life in the photographs and yet, the human presence is clearly perceptible. What exactly defines the natural? Is the idea of Nature a useful concept to understand the world? The project challenges the naive attitude towards the environment and the binary approach that separates the human and the natural, seemingly suggesting that it is worth developing and defining new possible forms of coexistence instead of thinking in terms of the preservation of nature.
The supports used in the creation of the series mixes glass, concrete and an extremely thin handmade paper; their opposite peculiarities convey a sense of fragility and the semi-transparency of the artworks implies something beyond the picture itself.
Arbitrary Interventions on Abandoned Rocks is a series of five unique variants and one artist’s proof. Each work is printed on a different sheet of handmade Superfine Bhutan paper of 20 g/m² — a paper no longer in production, whose remaining sheets vary individually in fibre density, surface, and natural inclusions. No two prints in the series are alike: the substrate itself ensures that each variant is singular.
Each print is laminated between two 2 mm extra-clear glass panes and rests on a cast concrete base, made by the artist in collaboration with blackprint.
| Weight | 8000 g |
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| Dimensions | 50 × 15 × 62 cm |
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