Yuni R. P. (XXI) - Nave Imponente al Atardecer - XL

The painting by YUNI R. P. 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 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 and decisive gestures. From this procedure emerge surfaces of considerable material-choral richness, where colors are encountered 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 confronted 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 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 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 the luminous tradition of Joaquín Sorolla, particularly in the interest in the radiance of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows convert 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 more materially emphatic painting. The imprint of the spatula remains visible and turns every color plane into a small structure. Up close, the painting can approach abstraction; from a distance, those stains and directions reorganize themselves again as sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. This tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most attractive aspects of his work.

Photography can scarcely 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 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 dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several European locales both privately and institutionally.

Artwork by the artist Yuni made in the technique of oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimensions: 70 x 100 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This majestic oil-on-canvas seascape is framed within expressionist-impessionism, standing out for a vibrant spatula work that generates a marked relief and a rich tactile texture in the impasto. The composition places a central protagonist: a imposing vessel with round rigging that forcefully breaks the waves, flanked by small distant sails against an open horizon. The chromatic palette unfolds a dazzling lyrical symphony by contrasting the agitation of the water in deep ultramarine blues and turquoises with the warmth of the sky, where yellows, oranges, pinks, and purples merge, achieving a masterful capture of the wind’s dynamism and the sublime atmosphere of a voyage at sunset."