[2] From 1977 Monteiro attended Colegio Equipe Secondary School in São Paulo; fellow students included Fabio Miguez, Antonio Malta, Rodrigo Andrade, Branco Melo, Nando Reis, Leda Catunda, together with the filmmaker Cao Hamburger and the writers, Augusto Massi and Arnaldo Antunes.

Towards the end of the 1970s he contributed to magazines from the subculture of São Paulo, including Boca and Almanak 80 and created front cover designs for three unique editions of Papagaio.

In 1983 he formed the group Casa 7[3] with Fabio Miguez, Rodrigo Andrade, Carlito Carvalhosa, Nuno Ramos and, initially, the painter, Antonio Malta.

Later the editors released the first monograph on the work of Amilcar de Castro and also a special edition of Nuno Ramos book Cujo.

Describing the art, Rodrigo Andrade states: “A very subtle sense of humour affirms the consciousness of its strangeness, of its nature — almost grotesque — and the colours emerge like the easiest thing in the world”.