Angel of Peace

Global sculpture project by guatemalan artist José Toledo Ordóñez, known as Pepo Toledo.

www.pepotoledo.com

Purpose

The Angel of Peace is an offer of blessings that Pepo Toledo makes on behalf of Guatemala.

It has to reach the largest amount possible of cities in the world.

I. The first one was inaugurated on November 22nd, 2012, on Circuito de las Naciones, sculptures for peace, near Mexico City´s airport.

Purpose

II. The second one was presented on December 6th, 2012, in Plaza de la Concordia at the National Police Historic Archives in Guatemala City.

III. The third one was unveiled at the OAS sculpture garden in the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., may 14th, 2014.

Angel of Peace miniature

Design and dimension proposal

Pepo Toledo´s message along with the sculpture

Peace is something we´re not often grateful for, until we lose it, like many other things God gives us.

Absence of violence is not real peace. For countries that emerged from war, there´s no peace without forgiveness.

Message

Conflicts must be solved reconstructing not destroying, going forward not backwards, united and not in dissension.

An old saying says that forgiveness can´t change the past but it can change the future.

  Isaac Newton said “Men build too many

walls and not enough bridges”.

Message

It is inside us that war and peace are born.

It is there where we need to build the foundations of peace so we can raise our homes.

For a home that lives in harmony is the biggest treasure of all.

Message

Starting there we can create world peace.

Peace is no utopia, it is an achievable dream.

 

Message

Only with a positive attitude we can construct a lifetime structure based on peace, truth, love, equality, justice, freedom, and sympathy.

Societies that do so develop a level of tolerance and union that makes them able to go through natural, economic, and every other kind of disaster.

Message

When peace flourishes so does human potential.

Herodotus used to say “No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.” 

I. Angel of Peace at Zócalo Book Fair, Mexico City 2012

Zócalo Book Fair 2012 in Mexico City was dedicated to Guatemala through the efforts made by the then Ambassador Rita Claverie de Sciolli. It was visited by over a million people.

On October 19th, guatemalan sculptor José Toledo Ordóñez presented for the first time the monumental sculpture Angel of Peace, which was placed in front of the Guatemala stand.

Angel of Peace at Circuito de las Naciones, Mexico City

The Angel of Peace was relocated from Zócalo to the Venustiano Carranza Delegation, where it was inaugurated on December 22nd 2012, on top of an exhibition mounting.

Later it was installed on Circuito de las Naciones permanently.

This space has now 19 sculptures from different countries located throughout the road leading to Mexico City´s airport. All these sculptures carry a message of peace.

José Manuel Ballesteros (middle), Delegation chief, inaugurated the event.

Angel of Peace in exhibition mounting.

Permanent location at Fray Servando and Lazaro Pavia boulevards.

II. Angel of Peace and Concord

Presented for the first time at La Galería, Rozas Botrán Foundation, Guatemala City September 27th, 2012.

It was later installed in Plaza de la Concordia, National Police Historic Archives, Guatemala City.

Angel of Peace and Concord

In 2005 millions of documents from the Civil War were found. They are now being digitalized and classified.

The sculpture was installed on December 6th, 2012, in presence of David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.

Angel of Peace and Concord at La Galería, Rozas Botrán Foundation

Angel of Peace and Concord at Plaza de la Concordia

Sculptor Pepo Toledo and David Johnston, Governor General of Canada

Sculptor Pepo Toledo with his wife Regina

III. Angel of Peace” in Washington, D.C.

Inaugurated at the OEA sculpture garden

in the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., may 14th, 2014.

The ceremony took place on Constitution Avenue and 18th St. N.W., where the sculpture was installed, significantly placed between the Washington Monument and the White House.

Pepo Toledo and Ambassador of Guatemala to Washington Julio Ligorría