Yuni R. P - Calma al atardecer

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

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

Although his production includes landscapes, gardens, figures, and urban scenes, in recent years the sea has become one of the major axes of his painting. Sailboats, ports, coasts, reflections, and horizons recur, transformed by a gaze that privileges sensory experience over meticulous description. His residence in Havana and 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: the capture of changing light, chromatic fragmentation, and the will to transmit an impression rather than a photographic reproduction of the subject. In some of his seascapes one can even perceive an affinity with Joaquín Sorolla’s luminist tradition, particularly in the interest in the splendor of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows transform 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 painting that is more materially emphatic. The imprint of the spatula remains visible and turns each color plane into a small structure. Up close, the painting may verge on abstraction; from a distance, those marks and directions reorganize into sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. That tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most appealing aspects of his work.

Photographs can hardly convey this character completely. Before the canvas, the relief of 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.

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

Artwork by the artist Yuni made in the oil on high-quality professional canvas technique.
Dimension: 73 x 52 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This oil-on-canvas seascape is a vibrant post-Impressionist composition that celebrates the majesty of the sunlight as it falls in the late afternoon over a bay filled with sailboats and vessels. The artist displays a notable mastery of the spatula and the thick impasto brushwork, achieving a rich visual texture that fragments the setting sun’s light into golden, yellow, and violet flashes across the surface of the water. The arrangement of the boats guides the viewer’s gaze in a harmonious path toward the horizon line and the silhouettes of distant hills, while the sky, imbued with warm and lilac tones, amplifies the serene atmosphere. The counterpoint between the warm tones of sunset and the cool hues of the hulls of the vessels conveys a sense of maritime freedom, peace, and contemplative splendor.