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PEACE BLOSSOMSIN ARBOGAArboga is strategically located as a central point between Gothenburg in the west and Stockholm in the east.

The strategic position, the fascinating history and the exciting future that Arboga undeniable has, is also discovered by an increasing number of people.

The prospects that Arboga will continue to grow and develop are exellent.

The Peace Monuments have every opportunity to contribute to that development by putting Arboga on the map, not the least culturally.

The ultimate goal of the Peace Monuments are to transform and refine war materials to art and culture. That in itself is a unique project. But the most important task for the project and the Peace monuments, is to keep the important dialogue on peace alive!

The art, as Peace Monuments are intents to inspire and develop, is simply the art of living in peace in all dimensions - both in large and small; peace on earth and the peace of the city center.

One of the sculptures is called Flower in Arboga and it conveys a clear message:

”Peace blossoms in Arboga”

This is both an invitation and a challenge.

Arboga ligger strategiskt placerad som en central punkt mellan Göteborg i väst och Stockholm i öst.

Det strategiska läget, den intressanta historien och den spännande framtiden, som Arboga onekligen har, upptäcks också av allt fler.

Förutsättningarna för att Arboga ska fortsätta att utvecklas och expandera är således minst sagt goda.

Fredsskulpturerna har alla möjligheter att bidra till den utvecklingen genom att ännu tydligare sätta Arboga på kartan, inte minst kulturellt.

Den yttersta ambitionen med Fredskulpturerna är att omvandla och förädla krigsmaterial till konst och kultur. Det är i sig ett unikt projekt. Men den viktigaste uppgiften, som projektet och Fredsskulpturerna har, är att hålla den så viktiga dialogen om fred levande!

Den konst, som Fredsskulpturerna har till syfte att inspirera och utveckla, är helt enkelt konsten att leva i fred i alla dimensioner - i såväl smått som stort; freden och friden i centrum.

En av skulpturerna heter Flower in Arboga och den förmedlar ett tydligt budskap:

“I Arboga blommar freden”

I det finns både en uppmaning och utmaning.

RICHARD BRIXEL

Richard Brixel is the initiator of the Peace Monuments of War materials symposium which in turn resulted in the Peace Monuments that are now shown in Arboga.

He is also the art director for the project, and responsible for the development of the project.

The idea to realize a peace sculpture symposium with in-ternationally working artists was raised the first time in 2009 when China’s former ambassador to Sweden Chen Ming Ming visited Richard Brixel at Brixelgården outside Arboga.

Shortly afterwards Richard Brixel was invited to the Chi-nese Embassy in Stockholm.

Then and there, he suggested that the Peace Monuments should be made out of war materials.

The meeting at the Embassy of China, and the Chinese ambassador’s positive attitude towards the Peace Sculp-ture Project, led Richard Brixel to contact his colleagues and friends at the Tsinghua University in Beijing who be-came involved in the project.

The rest is cultural history.

Richard Brixel is educated at the College of Arts and Sculpture at the Academy in Stockholm.

From his artist garden - Brixelgården – in Måla, Richard Brixel has worked for many years as an internationally re-cognized, well-known and respected artist.

Richard Brixel has been represented in over 400 solo and group exhibitions in Swedish, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Rum-ania, The Netherlands, USA and other countries.

His sculptures and artwork are also represented in private collections and museums and galleries in many countries. Richard Brixel’s larger sculptures in bronze - three meters and above - are installed in several public places in both large and small cities around the world.

His sculpture The Lucky Arboga- Philosopher was instal-led in Arboga 2005 and spread ever since a happy smile over the city’s residents and visitors.

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THE ARTISTS AND THE SYMPOSIUMPrior to the Sculpture Symposium 2012, 15 interna-tionally working artists were chosen by Richard Brixel through his international contacts to create the Peace Monuments of War Materials during the symposium in Arboga.

Of the sculptors who participated in project seven came from China, three from Sweden and one each from the US, Germany, Romania, England and The Netherlands.

Michele Fan Meisi, who was the secretary of the sculp-ture department at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, worked as an interpreter and coordinator of especially the Chinese artists and their participation before and during the peace sculpture symposium in Arboga.

Prior to the Sculpture Symposium all artists had made sketches of the sculptures they wanted to create and what war materiel they would like to work with.

In Arboga, during three marvelous summer weeks - on the industrial property of Asoma - the international peace, culture and sculpture symposium, ”Peace Monu-ment of War Materials” was carried out.

The results of the fifteen sculptors’ shared time and artistic effort was transformed into the seventeen peace monuments that are now in Arboga.

Every peace sculpture is in itself a peace monument and a monument to a completely unique and very concrete peace development: Refining war materials to art and culture

In the picture, from left to right: The scupturers, Wei Xiaoming, China. Devin Laurence Field, USA.

Jenny Grönvall, Sweden. Florin Strejac, Romania. Le Jinze, China. Lasse Nilsson, Sweden.

Linda Verkaaik, The Netherlands. Dong Shubing, China. Zhu Ying, China. Insa Winkler, Germany. Anthony Heywood, England.

Xhu Zenglong, China. Wen Chao, China. Yang Junglan, China. Mats Lodén, Sweden.

Photo: Håkan Sandberg

Artist: Devin Laurence Field, USAAssistant: Jesse Swichard

ARBOGA ARCH – ARBOGA GATE

A fifth generation artist, Devin Lau-rence Field grew up in New Zealand and lived in many countries through out his youth.

After New Zealand he studied art in England, France, Japan and the United States, graduating Summa cum Laude with a Master’s degree in Sculpture.

Devin specializes in large-scale public art commissions fabricated in metal.

Devin has been honored by the Na-tional Academy of Design in New York, included in International Bien-nales, and chosen to build monumen-tal sculptures for the Olympics. De-vin’s sculptures grace the permanent collections of museums, cities and sculpture parks around the world. Devin fabricates all of his work perso-nally, both at home and abroad, with the help of a few loyal assistants.

Wings and tail from a Russian Mig 21 Fishbed and steel.Size: H 310 cm, L 560 cm, W 310 cm

Artist: Professor Dong Shubing, China

LET ALL THE WEAPONS BE SEALED UPWIND & DUST

Dong Shubing was born in Xinjiang, October 1968.

Dong Shubing is an associate pro-fessor and vice dean of the Sculpture Department at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. He received his master’s degree from the Depart-ment of Sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts in June 2007 and ba-chelor’s degree from the Decorative Arts Department of the Central Aca-demy of Arts and Design in July 1993.

Dong is a member of the Chinese Sculpture Society, member of the Professional Committee of Sculpture at China Arts and Crafts Society and certified sculptor of the National Ur-ban Sculpture Construction Steering Committee.

BooksHe’s published a number of books and essays, including Curdy Time and Space, 2000, Decorative Sculpture Design, 1996, Basic Elements of Mo-dern City Sculpture, 2003, The Role of Colors in Sculpture, 2003, Study of Maijishan Sculpture in the Period of Beichao Dynasty, etc.

He attendedThe annual sculpture exhibition or-ganized by Sculpture magazine May 2010; the 11th National Art Exhibi-tion, August 2009; the 100-Chine-se-Sculptors’ Works Exhibition, May 2009; China Power – China Internatio-nal Sculpture Annual Exhibition, April 2009; the First Chinese Sculpture Art Exhibition, August 2008, etc.

Howitzer with wooden spoke, partially embedded in concrete.Size: H 155 cm, L 530 cm, W 185 cm

Howitzer with wooden spoke, partially covered by a ”spider web” of rebars.Size: H 155 cm, L 520 cm, W 193 cm

Artist: Jenny Grönvall and her daughter Linnea Grönvall, Sweden

MAKE FOOD - NOT WAR

Born 1973 in Finland.

Working within fields of performan-ce, video art and traditional formats of painting and sculpture, Grönvall’s practice aims to address and facilita-te a discussion on artistic discretion, targeting the middle grounds and dysfunctionalities within social con-tracts and posing a keen inquiry into the unspoken laws of aesthetic hier-archies.

Studies2003 Gender Studies, Lund Univer-

sity, Lund SE. Feminist Philosophy and Representation, Lund Univer-sity, Lund SE.

2002 MFA, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö SE . Cultural Studies and Contemporary Culture Theory, Lund University, Lund SE. Gender Studies, Lund University, Lund SE.

1998 BFA, Konstfack University Col-lege of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm SE.

Exhibitions and performances2012 Sørlandets Kunstmuseum i Kris-

tiansand, Norway.2011 Högkvarteret, New York

Konsthall C, Stockholm Gallery Muu, Finland Studio 44 , Stockholm

Industrial Refrigerators, dashboard from J-35 Draken, miscellaneous instruments from J-35, pie dish and various radio transmitters, etc.. paintedin pink, as well as text and image on the outside.Size: H 234 cm, L 180 cm, W 129 cm

Artist: Anthony Heywood, England

SEND THE WEAPONS TO THE MOON

Born 1952 in Great Britain.

“I wanted the work to express the vulnerability of life and to remind all levels of community that something so iconic and powerful can also evo-ke fragility, which is why I would like to suspend the work from its tail and for it to hang precariously above the ground.”

Anthony Heywood has been a cata-lyst both for the transformation of public attitudes to sculpture in public places in the UK and Europe, Austra-lia and the Middle East where he has exhibited his works.

It has become synonymous with groundbreaking artist projects, such as the celebrated, ’Earth elephant5’ Sculpture by the sea, bondi beach, Sydney 2004, 4 horses of the apoca-lypse in 1988 at the Portobello festi-val, ‘3 coqs’ in British art show ‘near’ Sharjah museum of arts, united Arab emirates in 1999. ‘tabula’ peace table a project made in collaboration with Uwe Derksen and exhibited during the Cultural Olympiad 2012 the work also featured in a BBC film shown on the big screen.

The body of Mig 21 Fishbed with one of the first three motors for J 35. Dragon prototypes.Dimensions: H 1200 cm, L 380 cm, W 145 cm

Artist: Li Jinze, China

SHAKE HANDS FOR PEACE

Born 1985, China.

The creation of art is a pursuit; the continual art creation is a conviction; and the never-ending loyalty to art creation is a faith. In this process, you will be your true self, gaining free will. The will is pure.

Works2004-2009; Bachelor of Arts in

Sculpture, LuXun Academy of Fine Arts (LAFA), Shenyang, China.

2010-2013; Master of Arts in Fine Art, Tsinghua University (THU), Beijing, China.

2014; Lecturer at Academic of Art and Design of Sanya University, Sanya, China.

Email: lijz10@qq.com

Three guns, Chinese character for peace on steel disc between the guns, steel wheels with hard rubber.Size: H 180 cm, L 1000 cm, B 1000 cm

Artist: Mats Lodén, Sweden

IKAROSPEACEFUL CHARACTER

Born 1951, Sweden.

As a sculptor I often work with the impression of being an outsider. Braking up the personal and public space, where the unspoken words of fellowship and alienation for me is wordless theater and a sculptural challenge.

About P12To clarify and to put the questions about war and peace and it`s univer-sal all-encompassing matters is a challenge. We inspiring each other to find our own artistic expression in the working processIt became a worth-while and peaceful experience.

Weapon carriers during MIG 21 Fishbeds wings, iron and parts of measuring instruments. Size: H 360 cm, L 130 cm, W 100 cm

Various aircraft wings and elevators, hydralrör and energy light.Size: H 500 cm, L 290 cm, W 100 cm

Artist: Lasse Nilsson, Sweden

THE SAVIOR

Born 1959, Sweden.

Lasse Nilsson is a sculptor with a passionate fascination for the human body. His background as a physio-therapist explains his extraordinary knowledge and sensibility in por-traying bodies in action.

He works in stone, stainless steel, bronze or wood, and is represented in various public spaces.

Is represented in commune of Solna, Stockholm, in Arboga and in private collections.

EducationScandinavian College of Naprapa-

thic Manual Medicine. Stockholm University, Faculty of His-

tory of Art. Idun Lovén Art School

Public CommissionsMunicipality of Solna; “Landscape in

Red”Wasa High School, Arboga; “Wings

of Knowledge”County Council of Västerås; “The

old Woman”Church of Sweden, Essinge church;

“Our Future” Municipality of Arboga; “Pass on the

Iron!”The Royal park of Djurgården, Stock-

holm: “Skade”

Aluminum and parts of airplanes, Railway barriers, truck chassis etc.Size: H 630 cm, L 343 cm, W 250 cm

Artist: Florin Strejac, Romania

THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT

Born 1960, Romania

Artist statementIn my vision, art represents salvation from life’s troubles and afflictions, as well as my own personal way of es-tablishing myself and evolving as a human being. The main thing I ap-proach, noticeable from some of the titles of my works: “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”, “When the Wind

Blows”, “Catch Me if You Can”, and the newest: “The Realm of the An-cient Mariner” and “Light Side of Life”, can describe, in a metaphorical way, my state of mind when I am cre-ating. The idea of transforming life’s routine in a moment of creative be-wilderment, is my life credo.

Studies1983-Bucharest, Art Academy Sculp-

ture, graduated in 19871998- Master in stone conservation,

graduated in 2000 (MFA) 2011-Expert stone & ceramics resto-

rer

Selection of sculpture symposiaUlm Sculpture Symposium, Stone -Germany. New Hampshire Sculp-ture Symposium, Stone - USA. Ver-mont Sculpture Symposium, Stone - USA. Cyprus Sculpture Symposium, Stone - Cyprus. Mumbay Sculpture Symposium, Stone - India. Belize City Central America Sculpture

Symposium, Stone - Belize. “Piece of war” Sculpture Symposium, Me-tal - Sweden. Tsinghua University Sculpture Exhibition, Stone – Chi-na. Tongling International Copper sculpture Exhibition, Bronze - China. Vadodara, Gujarat region Sculpture Symposium, Bronze – India. Ordos city friendship park Mongolia au-tonomous region, Marble – China. Urumqi Uigur autonomous region sculpture park, Marble – China. Cairo Madinaty sculpture symposi-um, Marble - Egypt. Alanya sculpture symposium, Granite – Turkey. Anta-lya sculpture symposium, Marble – Turkey. Aachen sculpture gathering, Wood, Germany. Wyoming sculpture residence, Metal, USA. Fuente Pal-mera Cordoba sculpture symposium II, Limestone – Spain.

Larvae Feet, parts of an SK-61 wing with nationality mark, fuel tank in aluminum and hydralrör.Size: H 300 cm, L 290 cm, W 60 cm

Artist: Professor Wei Xiaoming, China

A LETTER OF PEACE

Born 1957, China.

Professor, Sculpture Department, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. Vice-Chairman, Artist As-sociation ,Beijing.

1977 Graduate, Central Academy of Arts & Design;

1986 Study abroad on state scho-larship,Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria;

1988 Master, Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria; get the“Outstanding Contribution Awards in FineArts” from the mi-nister of the National Cultural Re-search Departments;

Work experience1982–1986 Teacher, Central Aca-

demy of Arts & Design.1986–1992 Solo Exhibitions around

Europe; considerable Environmen-tal Art

Design1992–2003 Came back to settle, As-

sociate Professor, China Central Academy of Fine Arts;

2003 – present Professor, Sculpture Department, Academy of Arts &

Design,Tsinghua University;

Social functions2008 Planning Committee,the In-

ternational Biennial Exhibition of Architecture in Beijing, 2008.

2009 Art Director, Sculpture sympo-sium of“the 11th Asian Art Festival ”, The International Sculpture sym-posium, Urumqi, Xinjiang;

Committee member, the Internatio-nal Biennial Exhibition of

FineArts in Beijing,2010;2010 Committee Expert ,the China

Scholarship Council;

Cannon with a bird, chicks and nest partially cut out of the gun shield and partly made in rebar.Size: H 340 cm, L 800 cm, W 210 cm

Artist: Wen Chao, China

WAR IS OVER - IF YOU WANT IT

Born 1972, Tongchuan, China

1973 Born in Tongchuan1993 Admitted to sculpture major at

Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts1998 Works at Sculpture Institution

of Shaanxi Province until 20111999 The work “Group Photo” for

Shaanxi exhibition of Chinas 50th Anniversary

2001 The work “Yue Ru Gue” in “West West” ArtExhibition

2002 The work “Farewell My Concu-bine” won first prize at the Natio-nal Art Exhibition

The work “Century Relay” was se-lected in The Fifth National Sport Art Exhibition at Beidaihe Olympic Park

2003 The work “Baqiao’s Willow” participated at the Changchun National Sculpture Exhibition

2004 The work “Mine” won third prize at the 55:th Shaanxi Art Works Exhibition

2005 The work “Song of a Pipa” was selected for the Shanghai Century Sculpture Exhibition

2006 The large scale work “Golden Age of Chang’an”

2011 Admitted to the sculpture major at Fine Art School of Tsinghua University

Cannon with rubber tires, wheelchair made of rifle barrels, rebar and gun barrels, on the cannon pages of text with signatures.Size: H 380 cm, L 800 cm, W 250 cm

Artist: Linda Verkaaik, The Netherlands

THE FLYING DUTCHMANBorn 1956, The Netherlands.

I prefer to make total events... where all arts are connected, to experience it: sculptural image, sound, projecti-on, motion ... Landart projects I realized on the Ter-schellings Oerolfestival and the walk on the bridge for the HEM (Utrecht) are dearest to me.

Nature and weather elements give your work something extra, some-thing you cannot think of beforehand.

The exhaustion to realize it, going to the extreme, is almost a sacred act.

My work consists of autonomous sculptures and transparent panels, architectural applications and lands-cape projects; for commissions but also in free projects. Sometimes with light, soundscape, performances or film projection. My work has many details within a stylistic organic form.

Color and texts are there to express and discover the stories and layers behind the first image.

Wings and tail fins from 5 different types of aircraft. J 39 Gripen, Saab Safir, SK 16 and J 37 Viggen.Size: H 410 cm, L 890 cm, W 250 cm

Artist: Insa Winkler, Germany

FROM HEART TO HEART-GREEN CAVE

Born 1960, Germany.

My focus lies in the context of art and landscape, society and the conversi-on of the environment. I am intere-sted in philosophy of flora, commu-nication of future viability. “The wag-gishness engenders the relation of human and nature within an analogy.”

The creation of value comes into being with the growth that gives life. Self-reliant moments, that bring me-mories, a link to the origin, including changes, warmness, wetness, patina, observation, smell, noise and more.

Environmental Artist. Diploma in Fine Art, M.Sc. for Architecture and Environment, Member of the Inter-national Foundation of Landscape Architecture, since 2010 Ph.D. Rese-arch on Art and Sustainability at Leu-phana University Lueneburg, Curator and Creator of Social Landart, works international site specific and multi medial.

The rear Mig 21 Fishbed, pool of military satellite, moss, irrigation system with pump powered by a solar panel.Size: H 510 cm, L 410 cm, W 390 cm

Artist: Xu Zenglong, China

HARMONY AND UNITY- FROM MISSILE TO PENUnder the emergence of Chinese and western culture, I study the sculptu-re morphology combining modern western language and the essence of Chinese tradition. Sticking to inno-vation and originality , I create works that emphasize on the concepts of Chinese, contemporary personality and wisdom.

These work tell ”stories of China”, en-riching the culture of sculpture, and fostering new form of humanity.

2000 Graduated from the Academy of Art &Design, Tsinghua Universi-ty with Doctor’s Degree.

Professor and Doctoral Tutor of Aca-demy of Art &Design, Tsinghua University and Executive Editor of Academy Sculpture

The works are collected permanently by Italy CASORIA museum, Beijing National Olympic Park, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Changchun Wor-ld Sculpture Park, Jiangxi Celebrity Sculpture Park, Wuhu Sculpture Park and the like

Published MonographsSculpture Overview, Sculpture Struc-

ture, Sculpture, etc., among which, Sculpture Structure won the Award of Beijing High Education Quality Teaching Material

Anti Naval Force Robot, cylindertop, lots of engine parts, rust free.Size: H 410 cm, L 890 cm, W 250 cm

Artist: Yang Junlan, China

WE ARE FAMILYBorn 1988, China.

I think one of the most important ar-tistic achievement is:1 My mind always uninterrupted smoke a lot of new ideas, and I will happy to dance with joy to those ideas.

2 I created a portrait of my motherI love all the humor, love all the good body, more like wonderful wisdom.I hope my art can take you around the spiritual universe, enjoy the endless pleasure

2014 Graduated from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sculptu-re Department

Chain drives, propellers, landing gear from a Piper Cherokee, cylinder head, aeroengine, trestles from the Air Force, gears, seatfrom HAYRAKE, bearing caps, tapered roller bearings.Size: H 270 cm, L 265 cm, W 120 cm

Artist: Zhu Ying, China

FLOWER IN ARBOGABorn 1990, China.

My name is Ying Zhu, I graduated from Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, majoring in sculpture. I’m passionate and atten-tive: I focus on the tiniest fractions in life and involve them into my art-works.

I cherish every single opportunity, and I hope more people can get to know me.

The most important achievement is that when people think an artist’s artwork “struck a responsive chord in the heart of its watchers.” The whole point of being an artist is to notice the tiniest things that appear in life and put those elements into artwork, trying to portray all the joyfulness and grievance in this world.

Propellers, parts of the fuselage, tubular steel and concrete.Size: H 700 cm, L 200 cm, W 200 cm

Thanks to

AsomaBowlingrestaurangen

CoopEuropeiska Landsbygdsfonden

FMVGado Verkstäder

ICAJädersbruks Ekologiska Herrgård

Kjell LiljehultLandstinget Västmanland

Lightning LarssonLT Last & Grävmaskiner

Länsstyrelsen VästmanlandPromedia Arboga Tidning

RichardssonsSaab

Samuelssons MåleriStadshotelletTBO Haglinds

Thomas Björn, PR-konsultTobias Gillberg, marknadsförare Arboga kommun

Tsinghua Universitetet PekingVandrarhemmet

Thanks to

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The project team that strongly contributed so that the Sculpture Symposium could be implemented in Arboga 2012 consisted of Birgit Johansson, (then President of Mekens Vänner), Inger Berg, Karin Bäckman Berg, Marianne Åhlander, Gösta Berg, Göran Dahlen, Pär Säterlid, Richard Brixel, Hasse Björkman, Kerstin Hörnlund and Håkan Sterner, project manager.

A group of volunteers also helped the Peace Monuments. The group consisted of Barbro Björkman, Jan Welin, Tommy Karlsson, Bengt Staaf, Tomas Persson, Inger Blixt, Ole Borgholst, Dan Mårtensson, Marie-Louise Forsell, Birgitta Hed-lund, Ingrid Johansson, Birgitta Borgholst, Kerstin Holm Säterlid, Håkan Sandberg and Anja Broxvall.

Facts about Arboga and Västra MälardalenArboga is an ancient cultural city with strong traditions in the military industry, art and commercial fields. It is also a well-known meeting place since the middle ages with the first Swedish parlament in 1435. Today there is both the central warehouse of the army, the army logistic headquarters, airfields and a growing advanced technology industry as well as many artisans and artists.

Fakta om Arboga och Västra MälardalenArboga är en gammal fin kulturstad med anor från 1100-talet. Redan 1435 arrangerades Sveriges första riksdag i Arboga. Staden ligger vackert vid Arbogaån och har ett centralt läge i Stockholm Mälardalsregionen. Tillsammans med städerna Köping och Kungsör bildar Arboga Västra Mälardalen med en gemensam vision om hållbar tillväxt. Här skapas förutsättningar för att leva ett gott liv med närhet till en stor arbetsmarknad. Ett utvecklande näringsliv med god vård, skola och omsorg.

ARBOGA - A BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR THE EVENT

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The ultimate goal of Peace Monuments are to transform and refine war materials to art and culture. That in itself is a unique project. But the most important task for the project and the Peace monuments, is to keep the important dialogue on peace alive!

Den yttersta ambitionen med Fredskulpturerna är att omvandla och förädla krigsmaterial till konst och kultur. Det är i sig ett unikt projekt. Men den viktigaste uppgiften, som projektet och Fredsskulpturerna har, är att hålla den så viktiga dialogen om fred levande!