La exposición en la Galería Florence Loewy de París tuvo lugar desde el 17 de noviembre de 2023 al 13 de enero de 2024. ´Dutch Landscape´ es un concepto sobre el que vengo trabajando desde el 2016 y que aúna la concepción clásica de la pintura de paisaje con el formato libro como soporte de obra de arte. Tema principal de mi investigación cuya tesis se llama ´El libro como espacio público´. La exposición estaba conformada por 78 libros. Una especie de instalación donde arquitectura, libros y espacio conformaban una experiencia al visitante. Florence Loewy es una de las galerías de arte focalizadas en los libros de artista más prestigiosas a nivel internacional. Entre los artistas que han expuesto encontramos artistas consagrados como Sol Lewitt, Martin Kippenberger, Dieter Roth, o Raymond Pettibon. Ver el archivo de exposiciones: https://www.florenceloewy.com/archives/ Dutch Landscape is an artistic and research project José Quintanar have been working on since he moved to Netherlands in 2016. As a major historical theme, the landscape was perceived as a fictional reality by Dutch Golden Age painters. Instead of depicting what they saw, their interest lay in creating an illusion. This project shares the same initial concept: it’s not about representing nature, but exploring the nature of representation. In other words, it is about when the representation of the landscape transforms into another landscape. It shares the same process of how a drawing is constructed, element by element, following its own set of laws and rules. The drawing of a landscape, like a prosthesis, is structured within a book. A book that becomes a landscape – a phantom image that you can’t see but is present. On the occasion of his show at Florence Loewy, José Quintanar presents for the first time his latest project, Dutch Landscape 17, among a range of books in this series. Dutch Landscape 17 is a book that doesn’t consume paper, but parasites existing books. A dutch landscape and a drawing of it. A landscape of 78 lines, arranged and placed inside a book of 12 pages, from 1 to 12 lines. A book as a landscape drawn by hand inside another book. A landscape within a landscape. 78 books found at second-hand markets in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and The Hague throughout 2023. Cookery books, children’s books, architecture books, art books, archaeology books, manuals, literature, atlases, or commercial catalogues. A library of books that have never been brought together before, which in some way define the cultural and social landscape of a territory. José Quintanar (Madrid, Spain, 1984) lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is an artist with a background in comics and architecture. Using the book as the main medium for his work, José Quintanar explores the possibilities of drawing as a game, and the ways in which it serves as a primary method for establishing processes based on rudimentary rules. In 2013 he founded a publishing project, RUJA PRESS, to explore and experiment with the form of the book. In 2022 the project was renamed to « This was a project but we have forgotten what it was ». He is currently a PhD candidate at the UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA MADRID with a thesis entitled « The book as public space ».