Yuni R. P. (XX) - Marea y Esmeralda

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 acquires volume, direction, and movement.

The spatula allows him to deposit, drag, and superimpose the oil through broad and decisive gestures. From this procedure emerge surfaces of considerable material-choral 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 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. Sailboats, ports, coasts, reflections, and horizons appear repeatedly, transformed by a gaze that privileges sensorial experience over meticulous description. His residence in Havana and the 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 intention to convey an impression rather than a photographic reproduction of the motif. 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 transform the sea surface into a space of light. It is not about 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 blotches 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 hardly convey this character completely. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil and the changes produced by light 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 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 places in Europe both at the private and institutional level.

Artwork by the artist Yuni created in the technique oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimensions of 75 x 99 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This oil on canvas seascape stands out for a vibrant expressionism and a strong dramatic charge in the use of color and texture. The work captures the dizzying advance of a regatta on the open sea, where the vessels challenge turbulent waves resolved through spatula strokes and thick, impasted brushstrokes in tones of deep blue, turquoise, and white. The sky dominates the composition with an electrifying atmosphere of yellow, gold, and lime-green hues that filter a nearly mystical light over the unfurled sails. The pronounced diagonal of the masts together with the force of the water breaking against the hulls gives the scene a palpable sense of speed, dynamism, and constant struggle against nature.