Yuni R. P - Travesía áurea

YUNI R. P.’s painting is built on a direct, physical relationship with the material. Working primarily in oil on canvas and dispensing with the brush in favor of the palette knife, the artist develops a painted surface in which color does not merely describe the image: it acquires volume, direction, and movement.

The palette knife allows the artist to apply, drag, and layer the oil paint with broad, decisive gestures. This process gives rise to surfaces of considerable textural and chromatic richness, where colors meet on the canvas without entirely losing their individuality. This is one of the most recognizable features of the artist’s visual language: intense blues, turquoise, sunny yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear in contrast and blend together in a highly luminous palette.

Although the artist’s work encompasses landscapes, gardens, figures, and urban scenes, in recent years the sea has become one of the major themes in the paintings. Sailboats, harbors, coastlines, reflections, and horizons recur throughout, transformed by a perspective that privileges sensory experience over meticulous description. The artist’s residence in Havana and everyday proximity to the coastal landscape thus find a natural reflection in this imagery.

Formally, the work engages with certain principles of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: the capture of changing light, chromatic fragmentation, and the desire to convey an impression rather than a photographic reproduction of the subject. In some of the seascapes, one can even perceive an affinity with Joaquín Sorolla’s luminist tradition, particularly in the interest in the water’s radiance and in the way whites, blues, and yellows turn the sea’s surface into a space of light. This is not imitation, but an affinity within a long tradition of artists fascinated by the relationship between sea, color, and luminosity.

YUNI R. P., however, takes this tradition in the direction of a more emphatically textured painting style. The marks of the palette knife remain visible, turning each plane of color into a small structure. Seen up close, a painting can verge on abstraction; from a distance, those marks and directional strokes come together again as sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. This tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most appealing aspects of the artist’s work.

Photographs can convey this quality only incompletely. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil paint and the changes produced by the way light falls on it give the works a presence and depth that go beyond the two-dimensional image. The result is an immediate, vibrant, and distinctive style of painting, characterized by powerful chromatic energy and a deeply optimistic vision of the landscape.

Yuniesky Rodríguez Peña’s public career includes solo and group exhibitions in Cuba, and the artist’s work is held in international private collections. The work has also been promoted internationally through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. The works are collected in several European countries, both by private collectors and institutions.


Artwork by artist Yuni, created using the oil-on-canvas technique on high-quality professional canvas.
Painting dimensions: 74 x 52 cm.
Original edition.
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This magnificent work, executed in oil on canvas, captures with dazzling expressive force the majesty of a solitary sailboat crossing a sea of fire beneath a sky ablaze with twilight. At the center of the composition, the imposing vessel in shades of blue contrasts masterfully with the warm, vibrant palette dominating the background, composed of intense yellows, fiery oranges, and golden glimmers merging at the horizon. The brushwork’s texture, built up with dynamic impasto, adds relief and movement to every plane, turning the painted surface into a living reflection of sunlight on the waves. This piece evokes a profound sense of freedom, mystery, and wistful serenity, making it an unmissable acquisition for discerning collectors seeking to enrich their spaces with a contemporary masterpiece imbued with a moving and timeless atmosphere.