Yuni R. P - Ecos de la Naturaleza

YUNI R. P.'s painting 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 where color is not limited to describing the image: it acquires 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-crumbly richness, where the colors are partially on the canvas without completely losing their individuality. This feature constitutes one of the most recognizable elements of his language: intense blues, turquoises, solar yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear faced and interwoven in a very 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 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 will to convey an impression rather than a photographic reproduction of the subject. In some of his seascapes there can even be a perceived affinity with Joaquín Sorolla's luminist tradition, particularly in the interest in the glare of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows turn the sea 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 trace of the spatula remains visible and turns each color plane into a small structure. Up close, the painting can approach abstraction; from a distance, those splotches and directions reorganize themselves again 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 hardly convey this character completely. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil and the changes produced by light incidence lend 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 widely disseminated internationally through platforms and organizations devoted to contemporary art. His works are collected in several places in Europe both at the private and institutional levels.

Artwork by the artist Yuni created in the high-quality professional oil on canvas technique.
Dimension of 73 x 53 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This oil on canvas work stands out for its rich texture and impasto that bring dynamism and three-dimensionality to the foreground floral arrangement. The composition balances the energy of the flowers in yellows, reds, and whites with a serene background of grays and soft vertical tones that evoke the atmosphere of a forest wrapped in fog. The delicate stroke of the leaves falling from the top envelops the scene, achieving a notable contrast between the vivacity of the flora and the subtlety of the later landscape, ideal for creating a vibrant and elegant focal point.