Montana LOOKBOOK #08 / 2023

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7 Editorial 10 Montana BLACK Artist Edition: HOWNOSM 16 Montana Black Artist Edition: LAIA 28 Introducing: ROID 34 Introducing: GOSPEL 40 CASE MACLAIM at Metropolink: The knife game 52 An interview with SATR from China 62 The Words of the beast: ALLISON 76 The inaugural Pfffestival 2022 94 Travel Report 102 Montana color swatches for Procreate 106 Hafendampf Essen 2022: 12 years of steam 112 Wall update by Swedish graffiti artist MAX SOLCA 122 An Update with FUNCO from Paris, France 128 Grand Opening – Montana Store Frankfurt 130 Latest Products 144 Imprint 8 LOOKBOOK 2023 content

The 23rd edition of the Montana BLACK Artist Edition can featuring LAIA – a Barcelona-born Spanish graffiti artist, prolific style writer and art maker. 16 10 The 24th release of the Montana BLACK Artist Edition cans featured the New York based artists HOW and NOSM. 28 If you are into graffiti, urban or street art, it is unlikely that you haven’t heard of the London-born graffiti artist ROIDS. 34 Introducing graffiti artist GOSPEL – Singing praise for one of Greece’s finest. Pure forms, solid colors, and a noticeable influence of his native Greek culture! 62 40 Layers of illusion, CASE painstakingly builds up his images from a primed background to a series of complex compositions in Heidelberg. Pablo Allison is a British/Mexican artist that has managed to take many of his interests in his art-making practice to a new level. 78 The Pfffestival celebrated its inauguration in the creation of large scale murals in Stuttgart, Germany, and an exhibition based around the festival’s achievements. For quite a while we have had our eyes on Solca as his artworks impressed us and made us smirk at their clever motifs! 112 122 Far from obsolete, FUNCO breaks the traditions of graffiti repetition and yet manages to create a recognizable form that is always a one-off. 9