Montez Magno began his artistic career in Recife, in 1954, when he entered the Escola de Belas Artes and began to study painting and drawing. Still in that decade, he produced his first abstract works, held solo shows and participated in group exhibitions in Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. At the beginning of the 1960s, he began to reside in São Paulo while continuing to show his work frequently in various cities around Brazil. In that period, he began to explore freer shapes in his painting, with series that oscillate between a more expressive language or an organic geometry. He spent the year 1964 in Madrid, Spain, on a grant from the Instituto de Cultura Hispânica, making trips around Europe and participating in exhibitions in various cities of Spain. In 1965, back in Brazil, he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he developed his work in dialogue with the generation of young artists linked to MAM-RJ. From then on, his work began to develop along different conceptual lines in a long path that includes works in different media, such as musical scores of random music, artist’s books, installations, objects, records of performances, as well as his poetic production contained in ten published books.