Yuni R. P - Travesía Esmeralda

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 does not merely describe the image: it gains volume, direction, and movement.

The spatula allows him to deposit, drag, and superimpose oil through broad, decisive gestures. From this procedure arise surfaces of considerable material- and chromatic-richness, where the colors are partially on the canvas without completely losing their individuality. This characteristic is one of the most recognizable elements of his language: intense blues, turquoises, solar yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear facing one another and intermingling 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 great axes of his painting. Sails, ports, coasts, reflections, and horizons appear repeatedly, transformed by a gaze that privileiages 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: the capture of 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 the luminist tradition of Joaquín Sorolla, particularly in the interest in the radiance of the water and in the way 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. Up close, the painting can verge on 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 attractive 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 contribute to the works a presence and a depth that exceed the two-dimensional image. The result is an immediate, vital, and recognizable painting, characterized by a 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 disseminated internationally through platforms and organizations devoted to contemporary art. His works are collected in several parts of Europe both privately and institutionally.

Artwork by the artist Yuni created in the technique of oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimensions of 73 x 52 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This vibrant oil-on-canvas painting embraces marine expressionism through a dense impasto technique applied mainly with a spatula, granting a tactile texture and exuberant dynamism to the scene. The composition depicts two sailboats carving their passage through a rough sea, where waves breaking in emerald green, olive, and white foam capture the raw power of the water. The dramatic sky, wrapped in yellow, golden, and greenish hues suggesting a solar glow behind storm clouds, creates an atmosphere of high tension and perpetual movement, yielding a work charged with expressive force, rhythm, and a powerful celebration of seamanship against the elements.