Yuni R. P. (XXI) - Marea de Pétalos

YUNI R. P.'s painting is built from a direct, physical relationship with matter. Working mainly with oil on canvas and discarding the brush in favor of the spatula, the artist develops a pictorial surface where color is not limited to describing the image: it gains volume, direction, and movement.

The spatula allows him to deposit, drag, and superimpose the oil through broad, decisive gestures. From this procedure emerge surfaces of considerable material- chromatic richness, where colors are partially on the canvas without completely losing their individuality. This feature constitutes one of the most recognizable elements of his language: intense blues, turquoises, solar yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear facing and interwoven in a very luminous palette.

Although his production includes landscapes, gardens, figures, and urban scenes, in recent years the sea has become one of the great axes of his painting. Sailed ships, ports, coasts, reflections, and horizons repeatedly appear, transformed by a gaze that privileges sensory experience over meticulous description. His residence in Havana and the daily proximity to the coastal landscape thus find a natural reflection in his imagination.

Formally, his work dialogues with certain principles of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: capturing changing light, chromatic fragmentation, and the will to transmit an impression rather than a photographic reproduction of the subject. In some of his marine paintings you can even sense an affinity with Joaquín Sorolla's luminist tradition, particularly in the interest in the glow of the water and in how whites, blues, and yellows turn the marine surface into a space of light. It is not imitation, but an affinity within a long tradition of artists fascinated by the relationship between sea, color, and luminosity.

However, YUNI R. P. takes that tradition toward a more materially emphatic painting. The imprint of the spatula remains visible and turns each color plane into a small structure. Close up, the canvas may approach abstraction; from a distance, those stains and directions reorganize as sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. That tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most compelling aspects of his work.

Photographs can barely convey this character fully. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil and the changes produced by light incidence give the works a presence and a depth that exceed the two-dimensional image. The result is an immediate, vital, and recognizable painting, characterized by strong chromatic energy and by a deeply optimistic view of the landscape.

The public trajectory of Yuniesky Rodríguez Peña includes solo and group exhibitions in Cuba and the presence of his work in international private collections. His work has also been internationally disseminated through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several European countries, both privately and institutionally.

Artwork by the artist Yuni created in the oil on canvas technique of excellent quality.
Dimension of 53 x 73 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This vibrant oil-on-canvas painting is a prominent expression of neo-Impressionist landscape painting with a marked expressionist character, characterized by a spatula or generous impasto brushstroke that adds a tactile and three-dimensional dynamic to the surface. The composition is structured through a bold layered perspective where a wide foreground dominated by circular strokes of blue cornflowers and red poppies stands out, generating a vibrant visual rhythm and a strong chromatic contrast; this section gives way to a middle band of pinkish, warm tones that guide the gaze through a line of cypresses and vegetation to a tranquil rural village on the shores of a body of water. In the distance, a mountain range in soft bluish and violet hues provides atmospheric depth, crowned by a clear sky bathed in golden and subtle light that balances the intensity of the palette and evokes the warmth of a spring day.