CHF 1'600.00
Artist: Diego Brambilla
Title: Ultraplanet M#03, DN082
Year: 2023
Country: Switzerland
Size: 24 × 24 cm
Medium: Gelatin silver Roiboos print
Paper: Matt Baryta paper
Frame: Wood Natural oak / Aluminium
Edition of 1/1 + 1 AP, Zürich
Signed, dated and numbered by the artist
Numbered and signed by the artist and provided with a Verisart blockchain Certificate of Authenticity.
Diego Brambilla is an Italian artist, based between London and Zürich, who graduated from the London College of Communication with an MA in photography in 2015. Previous education includes a BA in Sociology and a diploma in Film Direction.
Deliberately mixing real and imaginary, he stages fictional scenarios and experimentally combines photography with sculpture. Drawing upon contemporary narratives about nature, the human body or science, his work challenges those concepts as cultural products and investigates their ability to reconfigure the meaning within a constructed imagination.
His work has received the PhotoX award and it has been selected and shortlisted for several competitions such as Athens Photo Festival, Voies Off Arles and PhotogrVphy Grant and it has been exhibited many times in London and in Milan. His work has gained the attention of the media and it has been featured in many magazines, printed and online, such as Fisheye Magazine, GUP, Wired (US and Japan), Dailybest. It has been published in the Paris Opera booklet and got featured on Rai3 (national Italian television).
Diego Brambilla (*1978 / Italy)
Lives and works in Zürich
“Ultraplanets is an astronomical atlas based on a deliberate manipulation of NASA’s archive. Factual images, captured by probes and telescopes, are dissected and combined with unrelated visual fragments, and subsequently reassembled to create new imaginary worlds.
The process undergoes several stages. It begins by transforming digital images into physical negatives, similar to traditional film processing. These are then developed in a darkroom. However, instead of using standard chemicals, images are developed using special homemade recipes derived from plants.”
– Diego Brambilla
Each work in Ultraplanets begins as a digital file from NASA’s public archive — images produced by probes and telescopes as scientific documents, not as photographs in any conventional sense. Brambilla transforms these files into physical negatives, reintroducing them into an analogue process before combining them with unrelated visual fragments in the darkroom. The development stage is where the process becomes most particular: rather than standard photographic developers, Brambilla uses plant-based formulations of his own making — Wineol, derived from wine; Rooibos, from the South African shrub; Caffenol, from instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda. Each formula produces a distinct tonal character — the result of an experimental process rather than a predetermined selection, the developer chosen through testing rather than assigned to a subject.
The prints are gelatin silver on matt baryta paper, 24 × 24 cm, framed in natural oak or aluminium. Each work is unique.
For the full context of the series: diegobrambilla.com/ultraplanets.
| Weight | 150 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 30 × 30 × 0.3 cm |
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