Atlas Libertas is a sculpture placed on the main façade that welcomes visitors in the Business School Building at Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM), in Guatemala.
The monument was made as a tribute to the spirit of enterprise and creative power of the individual, in the frame of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged the novel written by Ayn Rand.
This artwork responds to the mission of the university: “to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal, and overall economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons”.
[1] It's a high-relief sculpture of a human figure supporting the universe, seen from the back from head to hip.
The sculpture is made of brass plate with a cyan-colored finish resembling oxidized copper.