The mixed-media assemblages made by the conceptual artist on a residency in India, sprawl out over the vast walls of the gallery like flattened Rubik’s Cubes. Baldessari is an artist with the rare capacity to be both serious and hilarious at the same time; his juxtapositions of source and medium are oblique and often absurdly funny, like the child salivating over an anthropomorphised turd.
Upstairs the hyped Danish painter Oliver Bak has been hard at work painting pre-Raphaelite textures that are gorgeous but paper-thin. ★★★☆☆
- Ahmedabad 1992, Sprüth Magers Gallery, Mitte, through Nov 2, details.
