CALIMA (MMXXVI) - La Carta al Loro

CALIMA, Mixed techniques, Acrylic painting · Digital painting · Hand-signed · 2026

A woman is reading. With lowered eyelids, her mouth still closed on what she has just learned, she holds the sheet with both hands, thumbs laid flat on the paper—the only white in the entire painting, a naked clarity amid a clamor of colors. Her garnet kimono runs in golden arabesques, hand-enhanced acanthus swirls catching the light and recalling Klimt’s ornate dresses. Around her, everything sings: a wall of fuchsia peonies on night blue, a green-and-pink fringed shawl thrown diagonally, a turquoise bowl brimming with grapes, plums, and oranges. On the right, an acutely green parakeet sits on its brass perch, beak slightly open, leaning toward the reader as if awaiting the news. Below, a blue peacock radio with gilded buttons, mute. In the lower right corner, the white studio monogram. The work celebrates the suspended moment when news arrives and the world keeps blooming without knowing: intimacy, waiting, the patience of women. Its lineage runs to the Nabists and Vuillard for the overpowering motif, to Matisse for the decorative interior, to Viennese Secession and Klimt for the ornamental golds.

Technique mixte : acrylic painting on pigment-ink print, matte varnish spray.
Varnishes applied by hand for the shine of golds and the enduring protection of the work.
Support: premium canvas stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang.
Format: 50 x 40 cm.
Signed CALIMA · Galerie Labo Joconde / Atelier Joconde · certificate of authenticity provided.

CALIMA is one of the creations bringing together artists Le Yack, Neo Pablo and Popsan within Atelier Joconde, a family studio where three sensibilities coexist: neo-realism, pop, and free figuration. CALIMA explores the inhabited interior as a greenhouse: women captured in ordinary moments—reading, waiting, listening—submerged under saturated florals, patterned textiles, and hand-worked golds. The collection draws on Nabist and Matisse interiors, on Viennese Secession ornament, and makes this decorative memory dialogue with objects from the century past—transistors, perches, earthenware bowls.

CALIMA gathers readers, sleepers, women at the mirror, surrounded by parakeets and cats, peonies, bowls of fruit, fringed shawls, and wallpaper that never stops. The textures are bold: acrylic in impasto, gold arabesques laid one by one, matte varnish that tones the canvas to let the gold shine alone. The guiding thread: the inner life of a woman treated with the same chromatic intensity as a celebration, a European ornamental heritage brought into the present by pop color and free gesture.

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Keywords: CALIMA, Galerie Labo Joconde, Atelier Joconde, reader, green parakeet, fuchsia peonies, fruit bowl, embroidered kimono, vintage radio, fringed shawl, gold leaf, acrylic, Viennese Secession, Klimt, Nabists, Matisse, decorative interior