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Charaka Simoncelli's work can be characterized as a decorative andspatial investigation through which a path unfolds that is denselyloaded with paper and visual references to memory.Her work explores an uncertain and yet orderly space, bringing usalmost to landscape-like themes recalling the investigations done byCarlo Mattioli in the 1940s, suspended between classic figurativereferences and abstract spatial expression.Simoncelli's work quickly establishes a precarious equilibriumbetween a background which is at the same time support and mentalspace, and a mysterious floating surface which might be clothing or astrip of cloth painted or deformed by time.Thus from an unsettling golden magma or thunder clouds, memory emergesas pages from a diary or from a book of memoires that the artist hasfound in an antiques dealer.Alternating with dense and brilliant drops of color which elongate toform stems of bushes or flowers, or triptychs of rose buds areindecipherable writings similar to the cr