Tonino Bucci

About one hundred  thousand euros directly into the cash desk of the newspaper Liberazione. And yet, initially this all seemed just a bizarre idea launched as a joke. Nobody had ever thought about proposing a contemporary art auction to sustain a newspaper in financial difficulties.

The other evening - after months of telephone calls, press conferences, contacts and negotiations the auction was held. Even though to tell the truth during these long hours of planning  a feeling of participation was not really present. Who knows why this idea was looked at by some in a rather snobbery way. Even so the other evening  the Nuova Pesa gallery was crammed to the full. Everyone was there: Simona Marchini, all the artists who donated their works, the ‘Rifondazione’ party leader Paolo Ferrero, the editor of Liberazione Dino Greco and a number of our editorial staff.