Ziggurat
Ziggurat
Artist
Marshall Brown
(born 1973)
Date2016
MediumAlusion foamed aluminum panels, wood structure, and aluminum I-beam base
Dimensions122 × 144 × 96 in. (309.9 × 365.8 × 243.8 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Made possible by Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, 2018.14
Accession number
2018.14
On View
Not on viewLabel TextMarshall Brown is an architect, designer, and urban planner whose work explores the relationship between architecture, power, and world-making. Ziggurat is a folly – or an architectural object constructed primarily for decoration – that has roots in extravagant eighteenth-century French and English gardens. The title references large ancient monuments. Drawing from the contemporary architecture of Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, and Zaha Hadid, and referencing several buildings, Brown created a hybrid readymade with easily available materials that points to our relentless impulse to sample, remix, and reconfigure.
