José Quintanar
For his solo show at Florence Loewy in 2025, José Quintanar presents Dutch Landscape 21, 22 & 23, different exercises of decomposition and recomposition of the same drawing, the representation of a landscape. Dutch Landscape 21 is an inventory of 41 wooden forms taken from the original drawing, conceived to spread out in the gallery space. In Dutch Landscape 22, the artist used them as tools to compose new landscapes. Dutch Landscape 23 is a publication listing all these 41 tools, reproduced to scale 1.
Paris
Editions Florence Loewy
28,5 x 18,5 cm
8 p.
Offset 4 tons directs, agrafé, couverture à rabats
« Good Luck » is the second book of a trilogy that started with « Good Morning », published in 2021.
As written in the subtitles; some drawings, and a story. Common things. Drawings as memories and memories as flashes adhered to images. Things that happen, with neither significance nor lasting as long as it takes a ship to cross a bridge or a cloud to block the sun’s rays.
Amsterdam
Terry Bleu
20 x 19 cm
44 p.
Riso printed in 3 colours, wire-o binding, 300 copies
Zürich
Rollo press
32 x 23 cm
336 p.
Soft cover, 336 p., offset cmjn
Amsterdam
This was a poject, but we have forgotten what it was
29,7 x 21 cm
8 p.
Impression n&b, ed. 100
Amsterdam
This was a project, but we have forgotten what it was
29,7 x 21 cm
12 p.
Impression n&b, ed. 100
À l’occasion de son exposition chez Florence Loewy, José Quintanar présente pour la première fois Dutch Landscape 17, son plus récent projet, parmi une série de livres de cette série. Dutch Landscape 17 est un livre qui ne consomme pas de papier, mais parasite les livres existants. Un « Dutch Landscape » et un dessin de ce paysage. Un paysage de 78 lignes, disposé et placé à l’intérieur d’un livre de 12 pages, chacune contenant 1 à 12 lignes. Un livre comme paysage dessiné à la main à l’intérieur d’un autre livre. Un paysage dans un paysage. 78 livres trouvés sur les marchés aux puces de Rotterdam, Amsterdam et La Haye tout au long de l’année 2023. Livres de cuisine, livres pour enfants, livres d’architecture, livres d’art, livres d’archéologie, manuels, littérature, atlas ou catalogues commerciaux. Une bibliothèque de livres qui n’ont jamais été réunis auparavant et qui définissent d’une certaine manière le paysage culturel et social d’un territoire.
Rotterdam
Ruja Press
l'un des 78 livres uniques contenant 12 interventions originales de l'artiste réalisées à l'aide de matrices de 1 à 12 lignes, reliure et formats divers, ed. 78
Rotterdam
"This was a project but we have forgotten what it was"
29,7 x 10
12 p.
photocopy, A4, ed. 200
From 1 to 14
(14 flags)
A project made in the summer of 2022 in Ghent, Belgium and curated by 019.
Archived in a publication format.
Rotterdam
"This was a project but we have forgotten what it was"
29,7 X 21
12 p.
photocopy, staples, A4, ed. 200
Rotterdam
29,7 X 21
28 p.
digital printing, + folded insert
From 1 to 16 is not a collection of drawings in a book, but the result of a development. A series of drawings ranging from the number 1 to the number 16. A drawing created with a single line, two drawings with two lines, three drawings with three lines…and so on, up to sixteen drawings with sixteen lines. A series that forms a total of 136 drawings, made in the city of Rotterdam, throughout 2022.
Madrid
Anoche Press
21 x 14
136 p.
offset, perfect binding, A5, ed. 300
Rotterdam
"This was a project but we have forgotten what it was"
29,7 X 21
8 p.
Staples, photocopy
« If I had to define Rotterdam with two images, on the one hand, I would say a flower in a window, and on the other, a ship stranded in the port.
For many afternoons, and before going to sleep, my son would sit with me on the drawing table and ask me to draw one boat after another. He was so obsessed with that activity that we built more than two hundred boats. All the same size and drawn with the same pencil. In this book, Hugo, the publisher, and I have tried to make a selection of the most significant, one hundred and some. » José Quintanar
Amsterdam
Terry Bleu
10 x 14
120 p.
risoprint, perfect binding, ed. 300
Amsterdam
Ruja Press
29,7 x 21
36 p.
Photocopy, staples, japanese binding, ed. 200
26 days, 26 drawings, 26 ways to archive, place, and arrange 26 lines inside of a space.
In this site-specific project, the author tries to explore the possibilities of drawing as a game and the classical conception of landscape painting. It’s located inside the shower of an abandoned factory in the center of Rotterdam. A place that for a long time served for the hygiene and care of the workers.
Rotterdam
Ruja Press
19,5 x 13
48 p.
Perfect binding, indigo printing, ed. 150
GOOD MORNING. (Some drawings and a story)
Common things. Drawings as memories and memories as flashes adhered to images. Things that happen, with neither significance, throughout one day.
Dutch Landscape 13 is a book that doesn’t consume paper, but parasites existing books to exist.
A Dutch Landscape, and a drawing of that. When the representation of a landscape is built like another landscape. A landscape of 91 lines arranged and placed inside of a book with 16 pages. From 1 line to 16 lines. A book as a landscape. A landscape is a landscape. The book is printed inside another book. But books are landscapes. A landscape inside of a landscape. 91 books, 91 landscapes. 91 books found in the Netherlands. Dutch books, Dutch Landscapes, a Dutch Landscape.
The first edition consists of 91 books. Books were found in the second-hand markets of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and The Hague in 2020 and 2021. All of them were shown to the public in the TERRANOVA bookstore (Barcelona) in October 2021.
Barcelone
Terranova
Stamp printed inside of an existing book, Books 29, 34, 42, 60, 69, all uniques
« These drawings appear by chance during the process of separating a drawing into five layers with the intention of printing it on a riso printer with five inks. Black pencil on paper and eraser tool on an orange background ». José Quintanar
Amsterdam
Ruja Press
13 x 17
leporello, printed in Risograph, ed. 100
This is a very long boat est une publication de l’artiste José Quintanar dans laquelle il explore les possibilités du dessin en tant que jeu et les façons dont le dessin apparaît comme une méthode primaire pour établir des processus à partir de règles rudimentaires.
Minimum drawings tell about multiple sections cutting through a chair.
Amsterdam
Ruja Press
29,7 x 19
28 p.
Riso, staples, ed. 200
A Dutch Landscape 10
A Dutch Landscape is the exercise of synthesizing a traditional and historic art subject in Netherland to a simple drawing game using very rudimentary rules and constrictions. Playing with the concept of appropriation and settling, the book works as protocol, as ritual, or as a narrative device where the same landscape is drawn again and again until to disappear.
A Dutch Landscape 4. (Trip to Delft)
This series of Landscape drawings are made from a single drawing of eighty lines. The drawing was made during a trip to Delft in September 2019. This book contain eighteen drawings, eighteen ways to archive, place, and arrange the eighty lines.
An investigation into colonisation, the way we read books and the significance of landscapes in Dutch culture ; José Quintanar talks us through an extensive ongoing body of work.
Influencé par la bande dessinée sous contrainte et ses études en architecture, José Quintanar a défini, en multipliant les exercices en séries, une approche basée sur l’essentialisation de la forme. Par découpes, combinaisons, superpositions, cette forme est repensée — tout comme la structure narrative, objet de ses recherches de doctorant à l’université polytechnique de Madrid.
Rotterdam
Ruja Press
29,7 x 21
20 p.
Staples, japanese binding, Inkjet, ed. 200
Sixteen Drawings of Sixteen Lines is an attempt to create a game with the number 16 that defines the structure of the book, its content, and the limitations of each drawing. A book of 16 pages with 16 drawings of 16 lines. – Nieves
« The smoke signal is a form of visual communication used over a long distance, to transmit news, signal danger, the selection of a new Pope, to mark positions during the war, or gather people to a common area. A primitive way of making something public. » José Quintanar
The Smoke Signal Library is a project by Ruohong Wu & José Quintanar. It’s a collection of second-hand books arranged and mixed to construct cross stories. A board game where we experiment and research about new possibilities to construct knowledge.
Rotterdam
Ruja Press
27 x 20
16 p.
photocopy, staples, ed. 300
This art book is released with 20 copies of every edition, every book contains 20 pages, 20 drawings of 20 lines.
Ruja Press
32 x 23
20 p.
Photocopy, sewn binding, ed. 400 / 20 editions of 20 copies
« The smoke signal is a form of visual communication used over a long distance, to transmit news, signal danger, the selection of a new Pope, to mark positions during the war, or gather people to a common area. A primitive way of making something public. » José Quintanar
The Smoke Signal Library is a project by Ruohong Wu & José Quintanar. It’s a collection of second-hand books arranged and mixed to construct cross stories. A board game where we experiment and research about new possibilities to construct knowledge.
Rotterdam
Ruja Press
27 x 20
16 p.
Photocopy, staples, ed. 300
« Un Paisaje Holandés » is the exercise of synthesizing a traditional and historic art subject in Netherland to a simple drawing game using very rudimentary rules and constrictions. Playing with the concept of appropriation and settling, the book works as protocol, as ritual, or as a narrative device where the same landscape is drawn again and again until to disappear.
Rotterdam
27 x 20
24 p.
paperback, 5 color Riso
FARTLEK was a revolutionary training system for runners created by Gösta Olander in a tiny cabin of Volodalen, Sweeden, with the meaning of a speed game. During the sixties, the most important athletes visited Gosta during summer for training under this system. It was based on the recognition of the landscape and the personal introspection of the runner. The purpose of this training was not only to run faster or to keep a better physical condition. But also to change the way of running and to know oneself better. Or in another word, running as a alternative method of meditation.
FARTLEK is also an artistic project. It´s the experiment to translate this training method for runners into the exercise of drawing. During three years and each night I drew for one hour following the Fartlek´s steps. The result was more than eight hundred drawings, of which four hundred are inside of this book.
Madrid
Ruja Press, Fulgencio Pimentel
24 x 16
400 p.
Perfect binding, offset printing, ed. 300