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P420 is pleased to announce Armature, the first solo show by Ana Lupas (1940, Cluj, RO) in a private gallery. After the major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum (2024) of Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2024-2025), this show offers an opportunity to reinterpret the work of one of the most radical figures of the conceptual avant-garde in Eastern Europe.
The title of the exhibition, intentionally in Italian, plays with a fundamental linguistic specificity and a dual semantic value. The term “armatura” simultaneously points to two key concepts for interpretation of the exhibition: that of physical, metal armor, for external protection, and at the same time that of the internal superstructure, that virtual armature that is worn to protect one’s own personality.
The entire show turns around the necessity to support and protect what is fragile. Whether in collective memory or individual identity, Ana Lupas responds to the threat of erasure of the self, with solid, long-lasting…
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P420 is pleased to announce Armature, the first solo show by Ana Lupas (1940, Cluj, RO) in a private gallery. After the major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum (2024) of Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2024-2025), this show offers an opportunity to reinterpret the work of one of the most radical figures of the conceptual avant-garde in Eastern Europe.
The title of the exhibition, intentionally in Italian, plays with a fundamental linguistic specificity and a dual semantic value. The term “armatura” simultaneously points to two key concepts for interpretation of the exhibition: that of physical, metal armor, for external protection, and at the same time that of the internal superstructure, that virtual armature that is worn to protect one’s own personality.
The entire show turns around the necessity to support and protect what is fragile. Whether in collective memory or individual identity, Ana Lupas responds to the threat of erasure of the self, with solid, long-lasting…



































































