Yuni R. P - XL - Impulso mediterráneo

YUNI R. P.’s painting is built from a direct, physical relationship with matter. Working mainly with oil on canvas and dispensing with 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 and decisive gestures. From this procedure emerge surfaces of considerable material and chromatic richness, where the colors are partly on the canvas without completely losing their individuality. This characteristic constitutes one of the most recognizable elements of his language: deep blues, turquoise, solar yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear faced and interwoven in a palette of great luminosity.

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. Sails, ports, shores, reflections, and horizons appear repeatedly, 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 imagery.

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 maritime works one can even sense an affinity with the luminist tradition of Joaquín Sorolla, particularly in the interest in the glare of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows render the marine surface into a space of light. It is not a matter of 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 trace 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 spots and directions reorganize themselves 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 completely. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil and the changes produced by the incidence of light 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 a deeply optimistic vision 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 internationally disseminated through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several places across Europe both privately and institutionally.

Artwork by artist Yuni made in the technique of oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Size 70 x 100 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This oil-on-canvas seascape is a vigorous neo-Impressionist composition depicting a regatta of sails unfurled in full navigation before a warm-architectured coastal city. The work stands out for the dynamism of its triangular sails in ivory and white tones, arranged in an expressive diagonal that suggests strength, speed, and movement over the water. Through a dense impasto technique with a spatula, the artist achieves a surface of great tactile and visual texture, where turquoise and deep blue tones of the sea dialogue with the golden reflections of the sunlight on the surface. The background, resolved with blocks of ochre, sienna, and yellow to evoke the coastal city façade, completes a vibrant, luminous atmosphere full of maritime elegance.