CHIPPING OF THE HEART By: Ingrid T. R. Bautista Review: A Bordo Aces. Since arriving at Bogota airport to Julio Londoo not stop talking for a second. And as his words pierced the fra morning, I got to know the artist, the man who loves life with such passion as a sculptor. Love life with that sense it is the result of having returned from the dead for many years and realize that I did not want to leave with the regret of not having been a sculptor. For this reason Londoo emprendiel way to what really loved the sculpture travs discovered that every blow with his hammer and chisel on marble, was a stroke of life, will intelligence. The marble is for the maestro Julio Londoo the preferred material for carving their dreams, their themes of "Woman", "Glory to the Creator", "Mediterranean", "Altamira", "Alfonsina y el Mar "" Can "," The Artist and the Muse "among others. It does in marble of Carrara, Marmol Risaralda or Marmol Verde. In his works, as he puts it, "looking beyond the skin, I want my sculptures to express spirituality, for example in" Glory to the Creator "I was like that of a human operator of an angel. Modelo hand, my hand is expressive of creation, I put him to work the wings of freedom. " The marble, white, hard, inert, has to master several elements: the magic that is that your eyes can see more than a piece of stone, a work of art, the marble was the material preferred by the Greeks as Fideas and Miguel Angel for excellent sculptures, in addition, has to the dealer character and will. "The marble makes me feel alive, because it is a struggle of man's will, the mind of man, against an inert element. After the magical hand of the artist bends the will of the people and encourages them to pet sculpture. is a magic. We extend the hand of God. Every shot I hit I is a heart, to be alive, because not everyone is a sculptor, you need character, you can not pay but can not fight. The marble should be treated with love and respect, he insina, softens, hardens the marble is sap. "His desire to know, if the exponent of the art of his country has led, by choice, to represent Colombia in several international competitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, etc., earning awards such as the Nios Prix in Uruguay or prize at the Sixth Meeting Sculpture in Uruguay. However, this was only his individual initiative ningn because he has had support from his country. "I am invisible. As a Colombian citizen but I'm not going to any institutional representation, I have nothing that identifies me as an honorable representative abroad. There is an office abroad by the Ministry of Culture to receive me or at least help me keep my works, one is alone. Mexican sculptors have carnque such borrowers, at least for better treatment from the embassies. AQUS has tried but has not been achieved. I'm invisible, all other sculptors like me are. Botero, Negret are great but they are not the only ones, we are an army of artists ". The time with the teacher in this morning, in one day either, has flown, has spoken of his dreams, of his past, his feeling for the sculpture, the marble, his vision of the world. His proposal is freedom focused on several issues, with spring mixed with myth and reality, its character to turn back marble and to undertake difficult enterprises, their struggle and optimism continue to represent the country abroad, the direct technique, the size of the stone or plaster models of indirect finally desire Journal of feeling alive, his work speaks for itself Through his works. www.juliolondono.com www.socratesartcenter.edu.co