Sotto gli occhi del mondo (Under the eyes of the world) includes more than rare or unpublished portraits of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 1922 – Rome, 1975), focusing mainly on the places, moments and encounters that marked Pasolini’s life, restoring his image as a man and artist in the world, fixed forever in dozens and dozens of different poses.
Pasolini’s meeting with Man Ray, to propose him to draw the poster for Salò; Pasolini in Stockholm (a few days before he was killed), to make himself known in the Nobel Prize environment; Pasolini in the South of the world, with Alberto Moravia, Dacia Maraini, Maria Callas.
When Pasolini goes in search of otherness, of anomaly, which he then reconstructs on the sets of his films. Or at film festivals and other occasions, where he met and debated with intellectuals and filmmakers of his calibre such as Orson Welles, Agnès Varda, Jonas Mekas and Jean-Luc Godard.
Pier Paolo Pasolini was probably the most photographed artist of the 20th century. From the early 1950s, when he arrived in Rome, until the days before his death, he was captured in hundreds of situations, both public and private, as if the photographic lens had chased him every moment of his life. The curiosity surrounding Pasolini as a man and artist has unleashed cameras all over the world.
Each photo shoot dedicated to him implies a particular aspect of the place and time in which the writer finds himself. Each photograph portraying him constitutes ‘a world’. Pasolini subjected himself, exposed himself, but also hid himself through photography, the only expressive technique he never spoke of except in very brief hints.

Published on the occasion of the 2022/23 exhibition at Villa Manin in Passariano di Codroipo (Udine) and the Pier Paolo Pasolini Study Centre in Casarsa della Delizia (Pordenone).

Artists: Richard Avedon, Graziano Arici, Gideon Bachmann, Jerry Bauer, Deborah Beer, Dominique Berretty, Giancarlo Botti, Pierre Boulat, Jan E. Carlsson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gian Battista Colombo, Giovanni Coruzzi, Harry Croner, Louis Draper, Sara Driver, Lynn Goldsmith, Elliott Landy, Philippe Koudjina, Aldo Liverani, Yves Leroux, Dacia Maraini, Bruno Massenet, Christopher Makos, Jonas Mekas, Mohamed Melehi, Duane Michals, A. Morici, André Morain, Angelo Novi, Lüfti Özkök, Duillio Pallottelli, Pietro Puscasttini, Dino Pedriali, Erika Rabau, Vittoriano Rastelli, Marisa Rastellini, Carlo Riccardi, Marli Shamir, Mario Tursi, Ullstein Bild, Roberto Villa