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Giovanni Beltran is pleased to announce Primitive Hut opening Friday, May 13th. The group exhibition, curated by Jonathan Gonzalez, explores material primacy though the work of 7 international designers.

Primitive Hut looks to examine making through elemental beginnings. The pieces, both new and existing, have been chosen for their willingness to allow material to dicrate both formal and functional outcomes, while building upon and reacting against history of teaching, learning and making design. Each of the seven designers in the show has working with a specific material:

Aluminum颅 - Deon Rubi

Carbon Fiber - 颅Jonathan Muecke

Red Metals 颅- Gabrielle Baez

Rope 颅- Brian Booth

Steel颅 - Jonathan Nesci

Stone颅 - Jessica Martin

Wood - 颅Lex Pott

Presented together the body of work is aware of its position within contemporary design, it's larger market and more abstractly notions of luxury and potency. The control of each designer over their chosen material allows for a new reading of "objects", one in which the most basic starting points end in a less than primitive merging of beauty and function. Design as a new necessity affords those that are making to challenge given signs and reassess values though a heightened control of aesthetics outside trend. The work presented here establishes its own bar.