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The Winnipeg Arts Council announced Thursday that it has selected prominent local sculptor and professor Gordon Reeve's submission for a site adjacent to the footbridge to Assiniboine Park off Portage Avenue.
The $75,000 piece, titled Agassiz Ice, will consist of three stainless steel forms on a promontory overlooking the Assiniboine River.
"I want people to walk through these massive cool walls of steel and make the association to ice," said Reeve, who hopes to finish the work in early November.
"It's supposed to be about the environment, not about itself. That's why I call it 'site specific.'"
The tallest of the three pieces that make up the sculpture will be four metres high and five metres long and weigh 1,200 kilograms.
Reeve, 61, is the creator of one the city's most visible pieces of public art, Justice, the 13-metre-high stainless steel abstract in front of the Provincial Law Court Building downtown.
Installed in 1986, the piece stirred much controversy at the time.
The city's public art program, administered by the Winnipeg Arts Council, operates on a budget of $500,000 a year.
Reeve, a professor in the University of Manitoba's School of Fine Art, is also a documentary filmmaker.
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