José Quintanar

Jose Quintanar (born 1984 in Madrid, lives and works in Amsterdam) is an artist with a background in comics and architecture. Using the book as the principal format for his work, José explores the possibilities of drawing as a game and the ways in which it serves as a primary method to establish processes based on rudimentary rules.
He founded a publishing project Ruja Press / "This was a project, but we have forgotten what it was", a space spacewhere to explore and experiment with the format of the book. He is the author of a thesis entitled "The book as public space."