The Collection spans unique works and strictly numbered editions, drawn from two distinct sources : a private archive of historical photographic glass plates, and contemporary works produced or presented in collaboration with living artists.
Diego Brambilla’s work for blackprint edition spans two series that share a material and a question.
“Arbitrary interventions on abandoned rocks” photographs found rocks onto which the artist has introduced an artificial element — a gesture that blurs the boundary between natural and man-made without resolving it. Each work is printed on handmade Bhutanese paper of 20 gsm — a paper no longer in production — and laminated between two panes of extra-clear glass of 2mm. The image appears suspended within the glass rather than resting on a surface. Each piece stands on a concrete base cast by the artist, designed in collaboration with blackprint. The final form of the work emerged from the dialogue between the artist’s concept and blackprint’s material expertise. Unique variants.
“There is no Away” takes the same paper to Iceland, where Brambilla crossed the volcanic interior carrying a small geometric wire object — a man-made form placed within one of the most extreme landscapes on earth. The photographs are dark, almost gloomy: not a celebration of wilderness, but a quiet insistence that no landscape remains entirely free of human presence. Here the paper is not encased in glass but held tensioned in an open magnetic frame designed by blackprint — present in the room, in direct contact with the light and air around it. Unique variants.
