Yuni R. P - Estela de Sol

YUNI R. P.'s painting is built from a direct, physical relationship with matter. Working mainly in 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 acquires volume, direction, and movement.

The spatula allows him to deposit, drag, and superimpose the oil paint through broad and 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 characteristic constitutes one of the most recognizable elements of his language: intense blues, turquoises, solar yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear face to face and intermingled 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 central 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 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 perceive an affinity with Joaquín Sorolla's luminist tradition, 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 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 more materially emphatic painting. The imprint of the spatula remains visible and converts each color plane into a small structure. Up close, the painting can verge on abstraction; from a distance, those stains 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 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 by a deeply optimistic vision of the landscape.

The public career 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 dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several European locations both at the private and institutional level.

Artwork by the artist Yuni, made in oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimension of 73.5 x 52.5 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This dazzling marine oil on canvas is framed within contemporary expressionist impressionism, characterized by an energetic application of impasto with a spatula that provides a markedly tactile relief to the surface. The composition depicts a fleet of sailing ships returning under the dazzling light of a sun on the horizon, unfurling a radiant gleam that reflects on the waves. The color palette is dominated by a radiant symphony of yellows, oranges, and golden tones in the sky and sails, which harmoniously contrasts with the olive green, emerald, and touches of blue in the moving water, achieving an atmosphere imbued with warmth, dynamism, and the serene majesty of a sunset at sea.