Release 1/10/2024 - 6 PM CET

M&A Arts is pleased to announce the completed fractionalized offering of seven paintings by Gregory de la Haba from Tuesday, October 1st at 6PM CET. For more information on this offering, click here.

Offerings are not available to U.S. persons.

Easy diptych #15

Oil, spray paint with Krink Markers on printed canvas

78 × 88 in | 198.12 × 223.52 cm

Easy diptych #8

Oil, spray paint with Krink Markers on printed canvas

78 × 88 in | 198.12 × 223.52 cm

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Easy #1

Oil, spray paint with Krink Markers on printed canvas

78 × 44 in | 198.12 × 111.76 cm

Easy #6

Oil, spray paint with Krink Markers on printed canvas

78 × 44 in | 198.12 × 111.76 cm

Blockchain Tension

Oil on canvas

78 × 60 in | 198.12 × 154.4 cm

A Painter’s Past Emerges

Oil on linen

78 × 60 in | 198.12 × 154.4 cm

Mending Paulina

Oil on canvas

78 × 60 in | 198.12 × 154.4 cm

Gregory de la Haba, an exciting emerging artist, is the star of this week’s fractionalization offering. Though there is much talk and much truth about the current weak state of the art market, there are opportunities, excellent opportunities, to profit from committing funds to artworks. We believe the route to success lies in careful analysis of works by emerging and re-emerging artists. Gregory de la Haba is a leading candidate for substantial price appreciation of his work. Annualized returns on various of his works range from 38% to 59% per annum. Though past performance is not a sure indication of future performance, we see the foundation in place for returns of more than 30% to 50% per annum during the next three to five years.

WHY

First, Gregory is a great talent, producing original works of beauty and substance. Second, his sponsorship is strong and his market presence is spreading in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East. Since 2022, de la Haba has been represented by Greuer & Greuer Art, a prominent gallery in Düsseldorf. They will host a solo exhibition of de la Haba’s “Easy Suite” series in April 2025, where the works will be offered at significantly higher prices than in this current offering. Previous to this exhibition, in December 2024, a solo exhibition will be opened by Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin. The artist has also been collaborating with a significant Korean private dealer/collector who has acquired and placed many of his works and continues to do so. De la Haba will be featured at ART BUSAN, a leading Korean art fair, in May 2025. He recently had a museum exhibition in Korea, and his most recent work will be showcased in a traveling exhibition across South America next year. To further expand his reach and market presence, de la Haba is also bringing on a business manager to support the long term growth of his career.

Gregory de la Haba is an American interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, and cultural producer. A skilled painter with a pedagogical lineage that stretches back to Jacques-Louis David, he is an exemplary practitioner of fine art whose conceptual practice resists categorization. De la Haba’s work explores themes of addiction, contemporary notions of masculinity, and Duende, a heightened state of emotion, expression, and authenticity derived from pure artistic expression. It is from this place that the artist unlocks his true self—both in art and in life.

Since 2008, de la Haba has produced art-related ventures through his creative platform Bodega de la Haba. Notable projects include hosting literary events with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright, curating a survey of significant works by the celebrated artist Judy Rifka at Pulpo Gallery in Murnau am Staffelsee in Germany, and producing and narrating Terrence Browne’s Irish art history musical “Hazel - Made In Belfast” which premiered at Carnegie Hall.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, de la Haba has written on a number of artists including Billy the Artist, Richie Culver, Marcus Jansen, Cristina BanBan, Oscar Murillo, Al Diaz, California Locos (Dave Tourjé, Chaz Bojórquez, John Van Hamersveld, Norton Wisdom and Gary Wong), Miya Ando, Andy Moses, Timothy Warren Williams, Lance De Los Reyes, Mel Bochner and many others. De la Haba's writings and artworks have been featured in many publications including The New York Times, Southampton Review, Rizzoli’s Irish America, New York Arts Magazine, and Portray.

De la Haba’s work has been exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and art shows. In 2009, de la Haba was the Artist-in-Residence at Jack the Pelican Presents, where he firmly cemented his notoriety with a provocative body of work.

Solo Shows:

·   Upcoming Years

Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany - 2026

“Everything is Made of Light“, Greuer & Greuer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany – April 2025

“Traveling Exhibition” across South America, curated by Massimo Scaringella – 2025

-Centro Cultural Borges and/or Centro Cultural La Recoleta, Buno Aires, Argentina

-Centro Cultural Las Condes and/or Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago, Chile

-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) and/or ICPNA Miraflores, Lima, Peru

-Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil

·   2024

“The Easy Suite“, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin, Germany – Upcoming: Opening December 5th

“The Durrës International Biennale of Contemprary Art (DIBoCA)” representing The National Pavilion of the United States of America, Durrës, Albania – Upcoming: Opening October 5th

“Master Painter from New York”, Gouter Gallery, Seoul, Korea

·   2023

“Light Tensions”, Kou Gallery - Curated by Massimo Scaringella , Roma, Italy

“Amplified Dimensions”, Marina Bastianello Gallery - Curated by Massimo Scaringella, Venice, Italy

“Invitational Exhibition”, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

“Portals to New York”, TwoFortyThirty, New York, USA

·   2019

“Vertical Horizons/Horizontal Waves: Totem Poems”, Meta Gallery, Monaco

Selected Group Shows:

·   Upcoming Years

“Venice Biennale”, Venice, Italy – April to November 2026

“Busan Art”, Art Fair, Busan, Korea – May 2025

·   2024

“Dakar Biennale”, Dakar, Senegal – Upcoming: Opening November 7th

 “Be Colourblind” with the Finnish artist Hannu Palosuo, Tehdassaari, Nokia, Finland

“Art on Paper New York” Art Fair, New York, USA

“Sylt Art Fair”, Greuer & Greuer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

“4-Person Battle”, Gouter Gallery, Seoult, Korea

“In Bloom” Oscar Molina Gallery and Yubal Màrquez Fleites Contemporary & Fine Art, Southampton, USA

“Contro Corrente”, Fondation Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal

·   2023

“The Others” Art Fair, Torino, Italy

“Larnaca Biennale: Home Away From Home”, Larnaca, Cyprus

“Simbolismi della Visione”, Rome Art Week - Curated by Luisa Catucci & Massimo Scaringella, Rome, Italy

“I Sing The Body Electric”, Jane’s Room - Curated by Raul Zamudio, New York, USA

“Inaugural Group Show”, 484 Gallery - Curated by Dalton Portella, Montauk, USA

“Summer Of Love”, Yubal Màrquez Fleites Contemporary & Fine Art, Southampton, USA

·   2022

“Art & Automobiles” First City Project Collective, Glen Cove, USA

“Rawthentic”, Brooklyn Art Haus, New York, USA

“Sylt Art Fair”, Greuer & Greuer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

·   2021

“Thinking Out Loud”, Pulpo Gallery - Curated by Katerina & Nico Zeifang, Murnau Am Staffelsee, Germany

“A Daze of Roses”, Mizuma & Kips Gallery, New York, USA

·   2020

“Sylt Art Fair”, Greuer & Greuer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

“QiPO Art Fair”, Mexico City, Mexico

Four of the paintings in the offering are from the ‘Easy Suite' series, which de la Haba began in February 2024, while three are from the 'Everything is Made of Light' series, which started in 2023.

About the ‘Easy Suite’ series:

There's been a noticeable uptick of tension in the air, politically, economically, and sociologically. This manifested into my art as a pictorial element that I have labeled "tension locks." They mimic in design what a woodworker would call a Dutchman joint, or butterfly knot, to adjoin two pieces of wood and keep them from separating. My use of the tension locks (first introduced in the 'Light' paintings) was intended to hold the painting together visually, unify it pictorially and compositionally, and guide the viewer's eye across the surface. As the idea developed, a new theme began to emerge: unification. When a legendary graffiti writer visited the studio one day, a positive spin in a world gone haywire dawned on me as he scrawled his infamous tag on the studio's outside wall. Since the early 1980s, Easy—as he is known on the streets— has been tagging his notorious moniker feverishly throughout the five boroughs of New York City. He is one of the true pioneers of the genre and is followed by nearly five hundred thousand followers on Instagram. His font and writing style are immediately noticeable and recognizable. I realized as the spray can in his hand began spewing out the aerosol paint that the word easy can imply something bigger and can manifest into an idea: An easy way out of the madness (via kindness), some easy time alone (via meditation), to go easy on one another (via remembering we're all human). Simply put, the time had come to take it easy. I see these ‘Easy Suite’ paintings as a mantra, a word of calming action to live and exist peacefully with one's self and others. Easy is the way. —de la Haba

About the ‘Everything is Made of Light’ series:

For painters, the treatment of lines is one of the fundamental hallmarks of great picture-making. The artist’s handling of lines—whether fine and delicate delineated by the Frenchman Jean Dominique Ingres, or bold and powerful, as expressed by the American Franz Kline—has been a lifelong fascination which culminated in the most recent body of work, ‘Everything Is Made of Light’. The series itself stems from a profound belief that we humans are all connected via a primordial, all-powerful, and invisible life force that emits telling energies aimed for our benefit yet to our own detriment and delusion in this modern world we are too often disconnected from. These paintings, via an expressive line embodied in the art, are a reminder that we are all made of light—and in light, the beauty of the divine is made possible to behold. —de la Haba

Emerging and re-emerging artists, carefully selected, represent the past and future success of fractionalization. Gregory de la Haba is a wonderful candidate.

-AE