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Enzina Fuschini is a designer and artist of Italian origin, working and living in the UK. She has collaborated with renowned artists and displayed her art at numerous occasions worldwide such as Rome, Milan, Paris, London and New York, and has designed a number of brands such as Darlings, and Exotica developed during a long period of collaboration with Harrods. Fuschini's life and work is strongly linked to three celebrities, the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and the British rock artist Gerry Rafferty. She was married to the Count Philippe Asinari di San Marzano.

Early life - Italian Period - De Chirico

At only twenty years of age, in 1974, she had her first solo exhibition in Milano, Italy at the "Galleria Avanguardia 2". Prof. Giacomo Migone, at that time President of the Federazione di Critici D`Arte D`Italia, admired her work and wrote numerous positive reviews.

In 1974 she went to Rome to meet maestro Giorgio de Chirico, Italy's most important (pre-)Surrealist painter of the 1900s. After De Chirico expressed considerable interest in her work and invited her, she stayed half a year working and living with the painter and his family in his house in the 16th century Palazzetto del Borgognoni at Piazza di Spagna 31. This was in the same period that the painter was admitted as Associé Étranger at the Académie des Beaux Arts of the Institut de France. Fuschini worked in De Chirico's studio for 6 months in 1974–1975 which had a strong impact on her artistic growth. De Chirico kept two of her works for his personal collection. Following De Chirico's death in 1978 the family house where Fuschini had stayed and worked became a museum dedicated to the great painters life and work.

In the period 1975–1980 Fuschini started to exhibit in Milano, Torino, Genova, and Rome and continued to add specialisations, such as ceramics, copper plate etching and lithography. At one of her first exhibitions, she won the second "Premio Coppa d'Argento di Pittura" at Palazzo Serbelloni in Milano in 1975. In 1978–1979, she collaborated with the Sovvraintendenza delle Belle Arti in Rome with the restoration of mosaics and fresco's.

Paris Period - Marriage with Count Philippe Asinari di San Marzano - Le <<Sincérism>>

Eighteen months later, in Paris she met Philippe Asinari di San Marzano, son of Count Carlo di San Marzano and Jacqueline, with whom she married in 1981, in Paris, and for the Roman Catholic "Parroquia de María Inmaculada y santa Vicenta María" in Madrid, where Philippes parents then lived. He is a descendant of Filippo Antonio Asinari, Marquis of San Marzano (1767–1828), whose grandfather is a great-great-great-grandparent of Vittorio Emanuele III, Prince of Savoy, Count of Turin and King of Italy until 1946, with whom Carlo, Philippes father, was actually well befriended. The noble House of Asinari is in close relation with the house of Savoy and played through its descendants major roles in history especially in the second half of the 18th, the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, during the period of the unification of Italy and the historical French-piemontese alliance.

They lived in Paris on the Avenue Kleber near Trocadéro and the couple had one child, a daughter, name Virginie Jaqueline Asinari Di San Marzano, born on 29 March 1982 in the Clinique du Belvedere. She was named after her great great relative Virginia Asinari Oldoini, known as "la Contessa di Castiglione", who lived in the second half of the 19th century; Cousin of Camillo Benso "count of Cavur" and wife of the Count of Costigliole d'Asti and Castiglione Tinella, known as "the most beautiful woman of the century", an Italian secret agent thanks to whose seductive powers the French-piemontese alliance came to be established. The couple separated in 1984 and divorced for the French and Italian courts in 1986.

During her period in Paris, Fuschini started to participate in numerous exhibitions, and her work was appreciated and acquired by the rich and influential. Several of works realised during this period were acquired by American collectors. She was responsible for a new current in art, the <<Sincérism>>, a term already coined by Prof. Gian Giacomo Migone an expression of personal impulses and freedom, more than external influences. She exhibited in various occasions in Paris, Bruxelles and in Italy, and also ran her own Gallery, Mythologies.

New York - United Kingdom Period

In 1988, ten years after De Chirico's death, a memorial exhibition was organised in Rome by his widow Isa de Chirico, for the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, called "La Metafisica interpretata. Omaggio a De Chirico" On request of Isa, Fuschini created a collection of 20 art works dedicated to De Chirico. These were exhibited during the memorial exhibition which furthermore comprised sculptures of De Chirico and, amongst others, of Antonio Vinciguerra, Carlo Guarienti, Jean Pierre-Velly. All works of Fuschini were sold except one, the aquarelle "Volos", dedicated to De Chirco's home town in Greece, painted during a travel of Fuschini to Volos, and still present in Fuschini's private collection.

Fuschini intensely experienced the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York, and created a tribute collection of art paintings, entitled "Beauty for Ashes", highly appreciated by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

During her second period in London she was based in Kensington, at 26, Campden Grove W8, and after 1994 in Sandbanks, Poole, in Dorset. During this episode, she became known as Enzina Fuschini Young. In London she was invited to exhibit at a succession of fashionable galleries. Around 2005 her daughter Virginie collaborated with her in an art studio they ran together in central London. She started to develop her own commercial brands in design, and regularly worked for Liberty’s, Harvey Nicholls, Beals (Bournemouth) and Harrods (London). Her designs appeared on amongst other fabrics, furniture and fine porcelain. She was active in numerous charity initiatives during her exhibitions and events.

Her house and Studio in Dorset ("The Lighthouse" on 48 Banks Road in Poole) became a popular cult feature and subject of numerous articles in designer magazines as an example of specific modern artistic interior design, showing examples of her work and the styles she had developed through her brands.

Harrods - Al-Fayed

At the Truly British Event at the London's Harrods Store on 6 May 2005 Fuschini's brand "Darlings" was launched and she became acquainted with the Egyptian businessman Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Fayed, after which a long and durable friendship developed with the Al-Fayed family.

Gerry Rafferty

Enzina Fuschini was engaged to the British rock artist Gerry Rafferty from 2008 up till his death in 2009. She met him during a period when he was reported missing by the international press.

Rafferty had all his life been suffering from chronic drinking, and during a stay in London he had moved from one hotel to another after he had been asked to leave the five-star Westbury Hotel in Mayfair where he had had a four-day drinking session that left his room extensively damaged. The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported that Rafferty had been asked to leave the hotel and had then checked himself into St Thomas' Hospital suffering from a chronic liver condition, brought on by heavy drinking. The same report claimed that on 1 August 2008, Rafferty had disappeared from the hospital, leaving his belongings behind, and that the hospital had filed a missing persons report Research showed, however, that no such missing persons report had ever existed . Afterwards Rafferty told a journalist from the Sunday Express that he had been living in Florence, Italy, splitting his time between a home in Dorset and visits to Scotland each year .

The reality about this period became known only after Rafferties death. It was during this turbulent times that he met Enzina Fuschini. They fell in love and lived together in Upton, near Poole, first at Enzina's house, later in a hotel and successively they rented a large home together . This was actually correctly cited by The Guardian on the 17 February 2009, which reported that Rafferty was in hiding in the south of England, being cared for by a friend. During 2009, Fuschini physically cared for the singer and tried to help him overcome his alcoholism. They went on holiday together and Rafferty proposed to Fuschini to marry him at the Ritz Hotel in Paris on Christmas Eve 2009 . Shortley afterwards, on the 2nd of September 2010, Enzina's mother died.

In November 2010, Rafferty was admitted to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, where he was put on a life-support machine and treated for multi-organ failure. After being taken off life-support, Rafferty went better and it seemed that he might survive and recover from his collapse. According to Fuschini, she was prevented from being at his bedside . His daughter Marta successively brought him to her house in Stroud, Gloucestershire, without admitting Enzina seeing or contacting him. . He died in Stroud on 4 January 2011 aged 63 of liver failure.

Since Rafferties death, a legal issue is raised over his will which was made in March 2007 before he met Enzina Fuschini, and she has launched a High Court battle for a share of his fortune after she was left out of his £1.2 million will .

Business interests

The art work of Fuschini was amongst many, exhibited by the Le Societé des Artistes, Paris and the National Library. It is at continuous display in art galleries in Brussels, New York, and Rome. In 1974 her brand was founded as an independent business which is focussed on the usage of her art in design. The design was developed on Limoges porcelain, Interior design features, Furniture, Textile, Clothing, Fine art, Murals, Musical instruments, Mobile phones, etc.

Brand Darlings

The Brand Darlings is described as "inspired by so many well-imaged characters from the quintessential era of style, the nineteen twenties. A striking black and white design is the heart of this collection of audacious debutantes and dinner guests, yet vibrant colour resonates suddenly with the bold characters as the collection, and maybe the evening, develops. Do we know these people? Perhaps all is not quite as it seems and no one completely speaks their mind in the world of the Darlings - but everyone is certainly saying one thing together as they chatter. Style. Here, that's no secret."

The Brand was launched at the Truly British Event at the London's Harrods Store on 6 May 2005. It consists of artwork, porcelain, clothing, furniture, etc. Special well-known pieces are a motorcycle Suzuki Intruder 1800 M, designed in 2007, the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Park Lane Hilton., a hat displayed on BBC 1 News during Ascot ladies day in 2006, a cigars store case, and Nokia mobile phone design.

Exhibitions

1973–1979

1975 - First Solo exhibition in Milan

Solo Exhibition in Chiavari

Solo Exhibition, Cassa di Risparmio, Genova Imperia

Exhibition Galleria Marguttsa, Rome

Genova Cup International Exhibition (350 Artists)

Giorgio de Chirico Memorial Exhibition, Articurial, Paris

1980–1983

Exhibition Palazzo Doria, Genoa

Solo Exhibition Galleria Presenze, Genoa

Contributor to the Grand palais Exhibition, Societée des Artistes Francais, Paris

Solo Exhibition, Banque de Crédit Lyonnais, Paris

Contemporary Etchings Exhibition, National Library, Paris

1984–1986

Solo Exhibition, Galerie d'Egmont, Bruxelles

Solo Exhibition, Centre Cultural Astoria, Bruxelles

Solo Exhibition, Gallerie Mythologies, Paris

1987–1989

Group Show, Bridgewater Gallery, New York

Exhibition with Giorgio De Chirico, Meorial Exhibition, Studio S Gallery, Rome

Solo Private Exhibition, R.R. Donneley, UK Ltd.

Solo Exhibition, Gallery Shurini, London

1990

Solo Exhibition, The Old Cinema, Chiswick High St., London

Solo Exhibition, De Lisle Gallery, Knightsbridge, London

1991

Solo Exhibition, Wasserstein Perella, London

1993

Solo Exhibition, David Harringdon Gallery, London

1994–1999

Various Exhibitions in London

Exhibition Poole Aquarium, Dorset, Collection "In the Beginning"

2000–2002

Permanent Display at the Public Library, Poole, Dorset

Represented by the Modern Artists Gallery, Berkshire, at the Affordable Art Fair London

Exhibition of Prints and Original Paintings, Habitat, Bournemouth, Dorset

Solo Exhibition "Urban Chic", Inaugural Exhibition of the artists New Studio, Sandbanks, Dorset.

2004

Solo Exhibition "A Turning Point" at the Modernartistgallery, Whitchchurch, Reading, 19 June – 3 July 2004.

2005–2010

Numerous exhibition at Harrods, London of Brands of porcelain and original prints and paintings.

Awards - Acknowledgements

1975–1977 Period

"Premio Coppa d'Argento di Pittura" at Palazzo Serbelloni in Milano in 1975.

First price "Medici Cup", International Exhibition, Villa Tosi (200 artists)

Second Prize, Milan Cup Avante garde, 3rd International Exhibition, Milano, Italy

Silver and Bronze Prizes at National and International Exhibitions, Novara, Italy

First prize at St. Mathew Colster Exhibition, Genova, Italy

"Natale d'Oro" Prize, Milano (250 artists)

1978–1980 Period

Genova Cup International Exhibition (350 Artists), Genova, Italy

Florence Gold Lion Prize (shared with De Chirico), Florence, Italy

Second Prize, Venice Grand Prize Exhibition, Venice, Italy

First Prize, Citta di Recco, awarded by the President of the Italian Art critics Federation, Recco, Italy

Gold Palm Award, Cannes, France

Christopher Colombus Prize, American-Italian Competition, Genova, Italy

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1. Prof. Giacomo Migone (1902–1984) was a rich and brilliant Genovese journalist. After an early military career during World War II in Abissinia and Yugoslavia, he became a well-known active national journalist and art expert. He is the uncle of the near homonymous Prof. Giacomo Migone, three times Member of the Italian Senate and Professor at the University of Torino
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