Yuni R. P - Duelo de Velas

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 overlay the oil through broad, decisive gestures. From this procedure emerge surfaces of considerable material and chromatic richness, where colors remain partly on the canvas without entirely losing their individuality. This feature is one of the most recognizable elements of his language: intense blues, turquoises, 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, 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 imagery.

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 luminous painting tradition, particularly in the interest in the sheen of the water and in how whites, blues, and yellows transform the marine surface into a space of light. It is not a matter of imitation, but of 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 mark of the spatula remains visible and turns each plane of color into a small structure. Close up, the painting can verge on abstraction; from a distance, those blotches and directions reassemble into 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. Standing before the canvas, the relief of the oil and the changes produced by light's 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 disseminated internationally through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in various places in Europe at both private and institutional levels.

Artwork by the artist Yuni created in oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimension of 73.5 x 52.5 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This vibrant oil-on-canvas seascape in a vertical format is framed within Expressionist painting, standing out for an energetic impasto technique applied with a spatula that provides rich texture and dynamism to the surface. The composition places two stylized sailing ships cutting through a choppy sea in the foreground, whose waves catch the glints and reflections of the radiant sky. The color palette creates a suggestive contrast between the cool cobalt blue and turquoise tones of the moving water and the dazzling warmth of yellows, oranges, and golden hues that bathe the sky and the sails, achieving a pervasive sense of strength, wind, and the serene atmosphere of a sunset at sea.