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YUNI R. P.'s painting is built on a direct, physical relationship with matter. Working mainly with oil on canvas and eschewing 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 layer the oil through broad, decisive gestures. From this procedure emerge surfaces of considerable material and chromatic richness, where the colors are partly on the canvas without completely losing their individuality. This feature is one of the most recognizable elements of his language: deep blues, turquoises, solar yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear confronted 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 foci 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, color 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 Joaquín Sorolla's luminist tradition, particularly in the interest in the shimmer of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows turn 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 trace 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 themselves into sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. That tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most alluring aspects of his work.

Photographs can hardly convey this character completely. In front of the canvas, the relief of 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 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 widely disseminated internationally through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several European places both privately and institutionally.

Artwork by artist Yuni in oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimension 80 x 60 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This oil-on-canvas work is a dazzling post-impressionist marquee celebrating the majesty of sailing on the open ocean. The composition is structured by a marked verticality, where the prominent sail in golden and orange tones acts as the main visual axis, unfurling forcefully against a vibrant sky of turquoise, cobalt blue, violet, and sunlit highlights. Through a spatula technique with rich impasto and loose brushstrokes, the artist manages to capture the dynamic texture of the foamy waves and the white wake breaking over the hull. The vivid contrast between the warm tones of the vessel and the cool chromaticity of the sea and sky gives an atmosphere of dynamism, adventure, and serene elegance.