Public & Community Art
Multiples of Three
Alberto Replanski
June 2002
Fleetwood Booster Pump Station,
Meagan Anne MacDougall Park,
15385 – 90 Avenue (between Fleetwood Way
and 154 Street, North of 90 Avenue)
Multiples of Three is a distinctive landscape sculpture
that acts as a fence fronting the Fleetwood Booster Pump
Station. Chunky steel shapes resembling large geometric
jigsaw pieces are welded into three groups and aligned
asymmetrically along a base of granite slabs.
Argentina-born sculptor Alberto Replanski designed the flat
sections to be arranged three-dimensionally to make a row
of stand-up cutouts. Through window-like negative spaces,
he invites visitors to view the more conventional pump
station. The rhythmic line and the connected pieces have a
modernist sensibility. They are cleverly designed to play light
against shadow, concave shapes against convex, and voids
against solids.
FLEETWOOD
Replanski’s work emphasizes the play of CorTen steel against natural materials, especially
granite and marble. He follows the tradition of
British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, who created
revolutionary assemblages, welded and bolted,
of factory-produced metals in the 70s and 80s.
Like Caro, Replanski has finished the Fleetwood
sculpture with a patina of rust to dramatize the
fundamental beauty of the metal.
Replanski has taught sculpture at the Vancouver
Academy of Art since 1998. He was the driving
force behind Portals of the Future outside the
Richmond Cultural Centre, when twelve sculptors
transformed 20 tons of limestone into works of
art during a three-month period in 2000.
City of Surrey Public and Community Art
Collection