Established in 2011, the Rediscoveries exhibition series invites members of the Colby College community to select and arrange artworks from the Colby Museum’s permanent collection. For Rediscoveries 4, guest curator Sarah Keller, assistant professor of English, took the 2012–13 Humanities Theme “Comedy, Seriously” as her frame of reference. As Keller notes, “the comic rarely exists without reference to something simultaneously more sedate. Diverse uses of comedy may throw into relief difficult ideas expressed through art: it can fixate on the grotesque, moderate the tragic, or playfully bathe somber themes in bathos.” The exhibition included works by such artists as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Red Grooms, Gina Siepel, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bernard Langlais, whose Untitled (Two-Faced Seal Mobile), c. 1975, has a starring role in this time-lapse documentation of the exhibition’s installation.

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