Global sculpture project by guatemalan artist Pepo Toledo.

1. Angel of Peace
Global sculpture project by
guatemalan artist José Toledo
Ordóñez, known as Pepo Toledo.
www.pepotoledo.com

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Angel of Peace miniature

5. Design and dimension proposal

6. 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.

7. 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”.

8. 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.

9. Message
 Starting there we can create world peace.
 Peace is no utopia, it is an achievable dream.

10. 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.

11. 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.”

12. 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.

15. 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.

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

17. Angel of Peace in exhibition
mounting.

18. Permanent location at Fray Servando
and Lazaro Pavia boulevards.

19. 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.

20. 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.

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

22. Angel of Peace and Concord at Plaza
de la Concordia

23. Sculptor Pepo Toledo and David
Johnston, Governor General of
Canada

24. Sculptor
Pepo Toledo
with his wife
Regina

25. 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.

26. Pepo Toledo and Ambassador of Guatemala
to Washington Julio Ligorría