Series · 2025 to ongoing
Red Grey
Photographic fragments of the body suspended in red and grey. 8 canvases by Stanislav Pospelov, 2025–ongoing. Originals, one of one.
- Series
- Red Grey
- Period
- 2025 to ongoing
- Medium
- Mixed media on canvas
- Pieces
- 8 originals
Series statement
The Red Grey series sits inside the wider artist statement on the body, the photograph as material, and inherited masculinity.
Reading time ≈ 3 minutes.
Red Grey is the longest-running series in the studio. Eight canvases at the moment, each composed of torn photographic fragments of the human form, suspended in fields of gestural red paint on grey. Originals, one of one. Mixed media on canvas, hand-finished.
The colour choice is not symbolic. The red is what the body looks like from the inside; the grey is what it looks like from outside, in the weather an Ashkelon afternoon makes. Both are accurate. Together, they are the work.
The series questions inherited norms of masculinity through vulnerability and exposure. Each canvas takes a photograph the artist made, tears it, and lets the gesture of the paint complete the image, refusing the cleanness of the photograph as the last word.
The 8 canvases
Plates I · II · III · IV · V · VI · VIII · IX
All canvas pieces
Red Grey I, Torn IntimacyMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
70 × 50 cm
Torn photographic fragments of the human form suspended in a field of gestural red paint on grey canvas, exploring vulnerability and exposure
Red Grey II, Fractured MasculinityMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
70 × 50 cm
A fragmented male figure emerges through torn photographs collaged onto textured grey canvas, intersected by visceral red paint strokes
Red Grey III, Hidden GazeMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
60 × 80 cm
A single eye peers through heavy impasto texture and chaotic red lines, the subject nearly consumed by the material surface
Red Grey IV, Split IdentityMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
70 × 50 cm
A portrait torn in two, the halves drifting apart amid crimson splatters on grey, contemplating the duality of self
Red Grey V, Bound FormsMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
70 × 50 cm
Shattered photographic shards of wrapped figures collaged onto an expressive grey surface with bold red accents
Red Grey VI, Corporeal FragmentsMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
70 × 50 cm
Torn fragments of the body reassembled on textured grey canvas, red paint drips tracing paths of tension and release
Red Grey VIII, Landscape of ConflictMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
80 × 60 cm
A monumental canvas where photographic memory is buried beneath sweeping gestural strokes, red paint marking points of rupture
Red Grey IX, Crimson DissolutionMixed Media on Canvas · 2025 · By enquiry
70 × 80 cm
Red pigment clusters bloom across a grey textured field, the photographic subject fully dissolved into pure materiality
On the colour
The red is what the body looks like from the inside; the grey is what it looks like from outside, in the weather an Ashkelon afternoon makes.
Stanislav Pospelov · Studio · Ashkelon · 2025
Acquisitions
Each piece is an original. By enquiry, direct from the studio.
Worldwide tracked shipping with full-value insurance. 2–3 weeks lead time.
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