José Quintanar

Dutch Landscape 26

I found a book at a market in Amsterdam. It had 256 pages, sewn in 16 signatures of 16 pages each.
I took it apart and separated the signatures.
On each signature I printed a book of my own, 16 pages long: one book printed on top of another.
One found book became sixteen.
Each of my books holds 16 drawings, one on each page. Each drawing is made with 16 lines and is a fragment of a Dutch landscape. The landscape is never seen whole. It is spread across the pages and across the books.
There are 16 editions. Each one is printed on a different found book with the same structure.
A landscape you cannot see, but that exists.

Published by This was a project but we have forgotten what it was, 2025.
The first edition was shown in Dutch Landscape 26 & 27, solo show at ESAM Caen-Cherbourg, Caen, France. 6–28 November 2025.