In this Earth research, still in progress, Marco Signorini continues the course of a work started in a previous piece called Echo, investigating an absolute, undefined time dimension, and the ways it is mirrored in landscapes and human lives.

Signorini understands the complexity of the contemporary anthropised landscape, the city and its outskirts, and in past works has analysed its spaces and shapes. For a few years now, he  has drawn  his attention towards the greatness of nature, now far away from us, reduced to an image of the wonderful. But with his orientation towards the origins of the landscape he has not abandoned the themes related to contemporaneity:  on the contrary, he found the way to a reflection on our difficult, suspended existence in today’s world, on the presence of man in a large, global, doubtful world. (From a text by Roberta Valtorta, catalogue of the exhibition 1_Earth, 2008, Manzoni Gallery, Bergamo)

Marco Signorini was born in Bagno a Ripoli in 1962, and now lives in Florence. He began his photographic research in the early 1990s (Europos Centras, 1994). He later worked for the Sandretto Re ReBaudengo Foundation (Passaggi, 1996). He was invited by Roberta Valtorta to the Villa Ghirlanda Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cinisello Balsamo (Idea di Metropoli, 2002) and his works are part of the museum permanent collection. For ‘Linea di Confine’ in Rubiera (Mother Way, 2001, and Luoghi della cura, 2005) he exhibited at the international event Le bâti, le vivant - semaines européennes de l’image and the collective exhibition Trans Emilia, exhibiting in Le Havre, at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, the SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne and the first edition of the ‘Festival Europeo di Fotografia’ in Reggio Emilia. In 2007 he published a book, Echo, published by Damiani, Bologna.