Yuni R. P - XL - Siluetas en el muelle

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 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 the oil through broad, decisive gestures. From this procedure arise surfaces of considerable material- chromatic richness, where the colors are partially on the canvas without completely losing their individuality. This characteristic 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 much-bright 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. Sailboats, ports, coasts, 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 imagination.

Formally, his work dialogues with certain principles of impressionism and post-impressionism: capturing the changing light, chromatic fragmentation, and the will to convey an impression rather than a photographic reproduction of the subject. In some of his seascapes, one can even sense an affinity with Joaquín Sorolla's luminous tradition, particularly in the interest in the glare of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows turn the marine surface into a space of light. It is not a 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 can nearly verge on abstraction; from a distance, those blotches and directions reorganize themselves as sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. That tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most attractive aspects of his work.

Photographs can barely fully convey this character. 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 by a deeply optimistic view of the landscape.

The public trajectory of Yuniesky Rodríguez Peña includes solo and group exhibitions in Cuba and a presence of his work in international private collections. His work has also been disseminated internationally through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several places in Europe at both private and institutional levels.

Artwork by the artist Yuni made in the oil on high-quality professional canvas technique.
Size 70 x 100 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This oil on canvas seascape is a evocative post-impressionist-style composition that represents a port illuminated by the imposing presence of a full moon. The work stands out for the dynamism of its impastos and the spatula work, which gives a rich tactile texture to the vessels docked in the foreground and to the architectural silhouette of the urban horizon. The artist deploys a highly expressive chromatic palette where the cool tones of the waters in blues and turquoises contrast harmoniously with the warm hues of city lights and the violet and pink-tinted sky. The moonlight is projected in a centralized way over the surface of the sea, generating bright flashes that guide the gaze and envelop the scene in a poetic, serene atmosphere of deep nocturnal fascination."