MONTANA-CANS LOOKBOOK 2017

Felipe Pantone
We at Montana-CANS are always on the
lookout for creative people to work with. When it
comes to street art, we have been truly fortunate
to have worked together with some of the most
prominent creative geniuses out there. One of
whom is Felipe Pantone. The Valencia-based
artist is an internationally renowned contemporary
artist, who has moved his graffiti aesthetics
to the absolute edge of every aspect of the
spectrum. His journey of discovery that led to his
unique aesthetic was born by his pursuit of a way
to fuse exaggerated colorful art and his obsession
with movement. The contrast of black and white
and the use of vivid colors are components of his
kinetic art style, which merges bold elements of
graphic design with highly-evolved geometric
shapes. His exceptional avant-garde artistic style
teleports the viewer into another mesmerizing
and vivid world, almost reminding us of the gaudy
80’s with its SMPTE color bars on the TV.
With the Internet, information seems to travel at
the speed of light. This feeling of rapid movement
influences for one Felipe Pantone’s life
through hyperactivity and extensive travel plans
but also his compositions, artistic style and working
methods. If it is your dream and aspiration
to create something of importance in the artistic
world you must be able to grasp the contemporary
era in terms of pop culture and your social
periphery. And Felipe Pantone has proven to be
capable of even amplifying the sense of our time
in his artwork. Using visual elements extracted
from technology such as glitches and other digital
graphical elements which represent speed,
this exceptional artist creates his pieces out of
any medium, giving the appearance of containing
movement which can be perceived by the
viewer or actually relying on motion for its effect.
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