Yuni R. P (XXI) - Puerto violeta

YUNI R. P.’s painting is built on a direct, physical relationship with the material. Working primarily in oil on canvas and setting aside the brush in favor of the palette knife, the artist develops a painted surface in which color does more than describe the image: it takes on volume, direction, and movement.

The palette knife allows the artist 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 on the canvas while retaining some of their individuality. This is one of the most distinctive features of the artist’s visual language: intense blues, turquoise, sunlit yellows, oranges, reds, and whites set against and intermingled with one another 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 of the paintings. Sailboats, harbors, coastlines, reflections, and horizons appear again and again, transformed by a perspective that favors sensory experience over meticulous description. The artist’s residence in Havana and daily proximity to the coastal landscape find a natural reflection in this imagery.

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

YUNI R. P., however, takes this tradition toward a more materially emphatic style of painting. 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 directions 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 imperfectly. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil paint and the changes produced by the incidence of light lend the works a presence and depth that go beyond the two-dimensional image. The result is immediate, vital, and distinctive painting, characterized by strong 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 individuals and institutions.


Artwork by the artist Yuni, created using high-quality professional oil on canvas.
Painting dimensions: 73 x 52 cm.
Original edition.
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This magnificent oil-on-canvas work captures, with sublime delicacy and an enveloping atmosphere, the tranquil beauty of a coastal voyage at dusk. At the center of the composition, an elegant sailboat crosses the bay’s calm waters, its sails unfurled to catch subtle golden and greenish tones that harmonize with the waterfront buildings and the imposing mountains in the background. Richly textured and deeply expressive, the brushwork masterfully shapes the purplish and bluish reflections on the water’s surface, lending the scene an exceptional play of light and color. The piece evokes a profound sense of peace, refuge, and visual poetry, making it a highly coveted acquisition for collectors and lovers of contemporary art who wish to bring a touch of timeless elegance and aesthetic refinement to their spaces.