Pablo Vierci

“There are many different reasons why I paint, but without intending it I always recreate the same scene over and over again: a group of boys with outstretched arms, standing on the freezing mountain with two helicopters arriving from the valley. I paint them again and again, but what is most curious is that every time I paint them I count the boys, never knowing whether they are greeting the helicopters when they arrive or saying goodbye when they leave. I count them and I count them again, and with tears in my eyes I always discover that there are more than sixteen.”
― Pablo Vierci, La sociedad de la nieve

“Lo que más deseo es que siempre que se cuente la historia de los Andes por lo menos se puedan leer sus nombres, porque un nombre es un recuerdo, y un recuerdo es una vida que perdura para la eternidad.”
― Pablo Vierci, La sociedad de la nieve