Yuni R. P (XXI) - Viento y marea

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 pictorial surface in which color does more than describe the image: it acquires volume, direction, and movement.

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

Although the artist’s work includes landscapes, gardens, figures, and urban scenes, in recent years the sea has become one of the major themes of the painting. Sailboats, harbors, coastlines, reflections, and horizons appear repeatedly, transformed by a perspective that favors sensory experience over meticulous description. The artist’s residence in Havana and daily 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: 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 perceive an affinity with Joaquín Sorolla’s Luminist tradition, particularly in the interest in the gleam of the water 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 toward a painting with a stronger emphasis on materiality. The mark of the palette knife remains visible, turning each plane of color into a small structure. Seen up close, the painting can verge on abstraction; from a distance, these marks and directions come together again as sails, reflections, vegetation, figures, or horizons. This tension between abstraction and representation is one of the most compelling aspects of the work.

Photographs can scarcely convey this quality in full. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil paint and the changes produced by the incidence of light give the works a presence and depth that go beyond the two-dimensional image. The result is an immediate, vital, and recognizable form of painting, characterized by strong chromatic energy and a profoundly optimistic vision of the landscape.

Yuniesky Rodríguez Peña’s public career includes solo and group exhibitions in Cuba, and his work is represented 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 professional, high-quality oil on canvas.
Painting dimensions: 73 x 52 cm.
Original edition.
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​This magnificent work, executed in oil on canvas, captures the ocean’s fierceness and the untamed elegance of sailing with striking gestural force and dazzling dynamism. At the center of the composition, an imposing vessel cuts decisively through the waves, its sails unfurled in a harmonious interplay of white, golden, and blue tones that contrast with the depths of the sky and sea. The brushwork, rich in texture and deeply expressive, sculpts the white foam and turbulent movement of the water through bold impasto, lending relief and a vibrant sense of living energy to the entire pictorial surface. This piece evokes an atmosphere of absolute freedom, adventure, and elemental power, making it an exceptional and highly coveted acquisition for collectors seeking to bring a contemporary masterpiece imbued with profound emotional intensity into their spaces.