José Quintanar
Dutch Landscape
“Seven years ago, I came to live in the Netherlands. Six years ago, I started working on the concept of the Dutch landscape. Nature and its representation have been key themes in the art history of this country, from the landscape paintings of the golden century to the conceptual art of Jan Dibbets. Influenced by Gertrude Stein’s idea of landscape in literature and the constructive development of all kinds of games, my interest is not so much in the representation of nature, but in the nature of representation — that is, how the drawing is constructed. Or, when the representation of a landscape becomes another landscape.”