Tiziana Stanzani was born in Milano, Italy, in 1962, and studied graphics and illustration at the Istituto Europeo di Design. She worked in the production of children's books, mostly in Germany and Finland. Since 1987, she has been working as computer graphic artist with EQUART computer graphics and animation in Milano.

'Adagio' is the outcome of the second movement of the concert for piano and orchestra KV 466 by Mozart, and it is a particular hommage to Mozart on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death. It has been created on a Compaq 386 computer with Topas Animator software which - although not being a particularly sophisticated tool - allows a certain ductus in the realization of illustrations, the computing times being only little shorter than the piano concert...

In other words: with this tool, it is certainly easier to realize a sort of hyper-realism just as you had it in mind, for, between one computing cycle and the other, you may already air the basics of the next improvement of your works. I do not want to define 'Adagio' as a 'synthetic image', for it is not synthetic. It is virtually essential as is the music it is derived from: and it is here that the mathematical exactness of artificial intelligence must give way to semantics, to the profit of the mere aesthetical aspects.

Technical Background

HW: Compaq 386
SW: Cupicomp 3D, Tips Targa Paint System