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PREHISTORY OF MATTER is the concept of Art Academy student Brecht Govaerts. The exhibition is part of the Graduate show 2014 and runs from 10 July -17 July, with a private view on 09 July. In his work Brecht is investigating how painting can engage with the exhibition space, so that the work literally gets a spatial quality similar to installation art. His interest in prehistory lies particularly in the connection between prehistoric works and their environment. For example Stonehenge gives meaning to the landscape in a conceptual way, it transforms the landscape, it turns a space into a place. The concept Prehistory of Matter also refers to science: the idea of the origin of matter, how matter is made up of particles and the interchange between matter and energy. Prehistoric art was a way to embody the ideas and understandings of prehistoric Homo sapiens in a material form: the awareness of his position in the universe and the relation to their environment.
