Yuni R. P - XL - Ocaso Portuario

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 does not merely describe 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 process arise surfaces of considerable material- chromatic richness, where colors meet the canvas partially without fully 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 confronted and interwoven 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 recur, 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, chromatic fragmentation, and the intention 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 the luminist tradition of Joaquín Sorolla, particularly in the interest in the radiance of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows turn the marine surface into a space of light. It is not about imitation, but about an affinity within a long tradition of artists fascinated by the relationship between sea, color, and luminosity.

However, YUNI R. P. carries 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 may approach abstraction; from a distance, those stains and directions reorganize again as sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. That tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most appealing aspects of his work.

Photographs can barely 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 vision 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 disseminated internationally through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several places in Europe both privately and institutionally.

Artwork by the artist Yuni made in oil on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimension 70 x 100 cm.
Original edition.
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This captivating oil-on-canvas piece is framed within an expressive and impressionist style of strong gestural charge, characterized by energetic, textured brushstrokes and generous impastos that shape a vibrant atmosphere where the port meets a fiery sky of oranges, yellows, and ochers contrasted with the darkness of buildings and the calm waters. The composition depicts moored ships near the coast illuminated by urban lights that cast warm, dynamic glints on the surface of the sea, evoking a deep sense of mystery, nostalgia, and nocturnal vitality. Through this masterful use of color and light, the artist seeks to convey the emotional intensity of the port sunset and the visual poetry arising from the dialogue between human activity and the majesty of nature.