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 – 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, Brown’s ZIGGURAT points to our relentless impulse to sample, remix, and reconfigure.
Marshall Brown es un arquitecto, diseñador y urbanista cuya obra explora la relación entre la arquitectura, el poder y la construcción del mundo. ZIGURAT es un “capricho” —un objeto arquitectónico construido principalmente con fines decorativos— originario de los extravagantes jardines dieciochescos de Francia e Inglaterra. El título hace referencia a unos inmensos monumentos antiguos. Inspirándose en la arquitectura contemporánea de Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman y Zaha Hadid, el ZIGURAT de Brown hace referencia a nuestro incansable impulso por probar, remezclar y reconfigurar
