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Agassiz Ice by Gordon Reeve, 2008 | Program: Commission
Agassiz Ice is composed of three monumental stainless steel forms situated on a promontory overlooking the Red River. Recalling glacial Lake Agassiz that once covered an immense area that included the city of Winnipeg, the sculptures appear to be massive chunks of pristine ice. The tallest is 4 metres high, 5 metres long and weighs 1.2 metric tons. Gordon Reeve writes: “imagine a thousand-metre high glacier at the beginning of time. Giant shards of ice fall from its melting face and slide deep into freezing Lake Agassiz, ninety percent of their mass hidden beneath the surface. Imagine also that three of those icebergs float here before you on a sea, not of water but of grass.”
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