Photography by Stephen Ironside
Ziggurat
Marshall 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.
ArtistMarshall Brown, born 1973
Date2016
MediumAlusion foamed aluminum panels, wood structure, and aluminum I-beam base
Dimensions122 x 144 x 96 in. (309.9 x 365.8 x 243.8 cm)
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Made possible by Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, 2018.14
ClassificationSculpture
Provenancecommissioned by the Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL; to (Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2018
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 16× the area of a standard movie poster.Drawn to the same scale.