Yuni R. P (XXI) - Ocaso sobre el Acantilado

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

The palette knife allows him to apply, drag, and layer the oil paint through broad, decisive gestures. This process gives rise to surfaces of considerable material and chromatic richness, where colors meet partially on the canvas without entirely losing their individuality. This quality is one of the most recognizable elements of his visual language: intense blues, turquoise, sunny yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear in contrast and intermingle in a highly luminous palette.

Although his output includes landscapes, gardens, figures, and urban scenes, in recent years the sea has become one of the major themes of his painting. Sailboats, harbors, coastlines, reflections, and horizons appear repeatedly, transformed by a vision that favors sensory experience over meticulous description. His residence in Havana and his daily proximity to the coastal landscape are naturally reflected in his artistic imagination.

Formally, his work engages with certain principles of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: capturing changing light, fragmenting color, and conveying an impression rather than producing a photographic reproduction of the subject. Some of his seascapes even reveal an affinity with the luminist tradition of Joaquín Sorolla, particularly in their interest in the shimmering surface of the water and in the way whites, blues, and yellows turn the sea into a space of light. This is not imitation, but an affinity within a long tradition of artists fascinated by the relationship between the sea, color, and luminosity.

However, YUNI R. P. takes this tradition in the direction of a more emphatically textured style of painting. The marks of the palette knife remain visible, turning each field of color into a small structure. Seen up close, the painting can verge on abstraction; from a distance, these 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 compelling aspects of his work.

Photographs can barely convey this quality in full. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil paint and the changes produced by the play of light give the works a presence and depth that go beyond the two-dimensional image. The result is an immediate, vital, 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 his work is held in international private collections. His work has also been promoted internationally through platforms and organizations dedicated to contemporary art. His works are collected in several European countries, both by private collectors and institutions.


Artwork by the artist Yuni, created using high-quality professional oil-on-canvas technique.
Painting dimensions: 80 x 60 cm.
Original edition.
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This oil-on-canvas work is an expressive Post-Impressionist seascape capturing the dramatic force and beauty of a sunset on the coast. The composition balances the solidity of rocky cliffs and small coastal buildings on the left with the perpetual dynamism of a raging sea, whose turquoise and emerald-green waves break into white foam flecked with golden glimmers. The sky becomes the painting’s central conceptual element, where dense clusters of clouds tinged with dramatic shadows part to reveal a setting sun casting radiant beams of light and warm orange tones across the water’s surface. The rich, textured brushwork lends a vibrant rhythm to the entire surface, drawing the viewer into an atmosphere of contemplative serenity and natural vitality.