It's not easy to write about Luisella Cantatore. Not easy because the artist wants to express the complexity of living through different research keys. Fascinating and capable of captivating the viewer, both women and men, for their elegance, are his sinuous black and white nudes. Here the aesthetic quality and the technical quality are very high, which also attracts non-connoisseurs of art, reaching a result of openness to use even those who have never been interested in art. More conceptual (perhaps. The conceptual figure is very high even in the nudes) the abstracts with very vivid colors, with geometric and concentric shapes that lead to backgrounds, perhaps existential advice, full of light. Almost invitations to positive solutions of life or, at least, to try to think that they can exist. But the common element, and therefore not a sterile eclecticism, is the starting from the dark in the former and from an expressive complexity in the latter which are resolved in the sweetness of the forms of the nudes that come out, winning the darkness and the positive luminosity in the abstracts. That is the complexity, the difficulty, the hardness of living that Luisella's great commitment wants to try to defeat. Maybe I risk being rhetorical, but a "warrior" artist seems to me a very appropriate formula. Più concettuali (forse. La cifra concettuale è molto alta anche nei nudi) gli astratti dai colori vivissimi, dalle forme geometriche e concentriche che portano a fondi, forse consigli esistenziali, pieni di luce. Quasi inviti a soluzioni positive del vivere o, almeno, al cercare di pensare che possano esistere. Ma l’elemento comune, e quindi non uno sterile eclettismo, sono il partire dal buio nei primi e da una complessità espressiva nei secondi che si risolvono nella dolcezza delle forme dei nudi che escono, vincono il buio e dalla positiva luminosità negli astratti. Ovvero la complessità, la difficoltà, la durezza del vivere che il grande impegno di Luisella vuole cercare di sconfiggere. Forse rischio di essere retorico, ma un’artista “guerriera” mi sembra una formula molto appropriata.