Villiam Miklos Andersen's 'Smooth Operator' at Fondazione Elpis, Milan
Villiam Miklos Andersen's solo exhibition 'Smooth Operator' at Fondazione Elpis in Milan runs until June 14, 2026. The show exposes the hidden labor behind consumer comfort through wood inlay works depicting logistics and wholesale gestures, made by Indian artisans over a month each. Curated by Gabriele Tosi, the three-floor exhibition creates different proximities: sensory in the basement, geopolitical on the ground floor, and spatial-documentary upstairs. Recurring motifs include pallets, a dog crate, and a Swedish Cold War military vehicle converted into a sauna, used by Andersen on a European road trip. The works critique standardization and repetition while celebrating materiality and sensory reactivation.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Smooth Operator' by Villiam Miklos Andersen at Fondazione Elpis, Milan, until June 14, 2026.
- Works include wood inlays from Mysore, India, requiring one month each to produce.
- Curated by Gabriele Tosi, the show is structured across three floors with different proximity experiences.
- Features a Swedish Cold War military vehicle converted into a sauna, used by Andersen on a European journey.
- Recurring objects include pallets, a dog crate, and a cabin prototype in various materials.
- The exhibition critiques the banality and fatigue of daily labor in logistics and wholesale.
- Andersen uses the system's own tools—multiplication, diversion, bright colors—to demystify it.
- The show includes a video documenting the sauna-vehicle's road trip across Europe.
Entities
Artists
- Villiam Miklos Andersen
- Bruno Munari
- M.B. Pedersen
- Walter Bernath
- Dayananda Nagaraju
Institutions
- Fondazione Elpis
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Kalundborg
- Denmark
- India
- Mysore
- Sweden
- Europe
- Milan, Italy
- New York, USA
- Gotland, Sweden
- Paris, France
- Gotland
- Narvik
- Paris