No Brow art show speaks with Eva Mendgen (Part 2)

Dr. Eva Mendgen has worked on a number of art projects and publications, from the entwined histories of Art and Medicine to the cultural landscape of Luxembourg as a landlocked nation – there looking at the influence of the ‘border’ on cultural activity and study. The German historian and scholar as lectured in art history around the world, and since 2013 has been a Research Assistant based at the Laboratory of Contemporary Architecture History, of the National School of Architecture, France. Her current research project concerns something that we may consider to be a very traditional concern, that of the relationship between the picture and its frame. While her studies begin in the 18th Century, as she discusses here in this interview, the modernist period of early to mid-20th Century art is imperative to her theories, where the frame was as an important space for experimentation. In this second half Eva discusses the work of her father Hans Joachim Reuter. He generated hundreds of images which are classified Science Art with endoscope and Gamma camera. These aesthetic images are the subject of the book Radiant Images and Eva discusses their origins and importance. http://mendgen.com/