Yuni R. P (XXI) - Estela de oro

YUNI R. P.’s painting is built on a direct, physical relationship with the material. Working primarily in oil on canvas and favoring the palette knife over the brush, the artist develops a painted surface in which color is not limited to describing 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 elements of the artist’s visual language: intense blues, turquoises, sunlit yellows, oranges, reds, and whites appear in juxtaposition and blend together in a highly luminous palette.

Although the artist’s work encompasses landscapes, gardens, figures, and urban scenes, the sea has become one of the major themes of the paintings in recent years. Sailboats, harbors, coastlines, reflections, and horizons appear repeatedly, transformed by a vision that favors sensory experience over meticulous description. The artist’s residence in Havana and everyday proximity to the coastal landscape are naturally reflected 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 the luminist tradition of Joaquín Sorolla, particularly in the interest in the shimmer 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 rather an affinity within a long tradition of artists fascinated by the relationship between sea, color, and luminosity.

However, YUNI R. P. takes this tradition in a more emphatically textured direction. The marks of the palette knife remain 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 appealing aspects of the artist’s work.

Photographs can scarcely convey this quality in full. In front of the canvas, the relief of the oil paint and the changes caused 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, vital, and recognizable style 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 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 by both private and institutional collectors.


Artwork by the artist Yuni, created using the oil-on-canvas technique on professional, high-quality canvas.
Painting dimensions: 74 x 53 cm.
Original edition.
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This magnificent oil-on-canvas work masterfully and sensitively captures the breathtaking beauty of a maritime sunset, in which nature merges in a vibrant burst of light and color. At the center of the composition, a sailing vessel unfurls its warm, fiery hues, gliding elegantly across a deep sea illuminated by the golden and reddish reflections of the setting sun. The brushwork, rich in texture and dynamism, shapes every stroke of sky and water with expressive impasto, conveying an intense sense of movement and atmospheric freedom. The vivid hues of the horizon contrast harmoniously with the serenity of the waves, inviting the viewer on a contemplative journey where time seems to stand still beneath the glow of dusk. An exceptional work, distinguished by its chromatic force and its ability to evoke the pure emotion of a captured moment, making it an undeniable object of desire for collectors and lovers of contemporary art.