Sunlife

Sunlife Assurance Company of Canada, Toronto, ON

For this Sunlife public commission, Etrog worked for a period of three years, creating different maquettes and testing out multiple versions of his monumental sculpture until he reached his final design.

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The visuality of this work utilizes some of Etrog’s known motifs – the “wheel of the sun” for example – yet the size of the sculpture required him to rethink his technique; the monumental scale of the work prevented Etrog from casting the sculpture in bronze from a plaster mold. Instead, he used bronze sheets for the creation of this monument, an invention that would instigate a new creative phase in his career.

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This mega scale masterpiece is an icon of the city of Toronto, located at the busy intersection of King St. and University Ave.