DEREK MONTEIRO: PHYSICS VERSUS PHANTASY

13-18 December, 1982

at the Max Mueller Gallery

open daily (8 a.m - 10 p.m.)

Born in 1960, Derek Monteiro is a student of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, with no formal training in the arts, and has long been active scribbling, drawing, painting and writing away whenever a computer card or a free minute offered itself. The immense variety of forms and words around him incites his spiralling imagination to hold its own and dream on along the sharp edges of the physicist's reality, smoothening them, as it were, and expanding them into the infinite realm of phantasy. Physics revenged or redeemed, Derek's artistic instinct accepts reality only for what IT IS AND COULD BE at the same time. "Love is not blind", he maintains, "but has heart-shaped eyes." And his little boy sings: "My father discovered my mother, they both invented me." And, asks he, "Why should there not be a Finger Print Don" or, as shown here, "flow faces"?

Dr. Georg Lechner

Director

Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay