Collectors
Veerle Swenters and Pierre Bogaerts
20 years ago we ended up in shoe business because of Veerle's father being a shoemaker in Antwerp. 2 years later we started the SONS project.
Collecting all the artists addresses was quite a challenge itself and then contacting them.
Writing over and over again, hours on the phone... it was a huge task. In no time we wrote over 1000 letters to the most famous artists: Arman, Baselitz, Fabre, Long, Panamarenko, Pistoletto, Richter, Wesselman etc...
Pretty soon we received positive reactions motivating us to continue this project. From the beginning many artists even transformed their shoes into an artwork.
Hence the title: "Shoes or no Shoes ?"
Are they real artworks or common shoes?
It's pleasant to ask this question to the visitors.
Many people like to ask us what our favourite object is and which artist we like the most. Actually we don't have a favourite because we consider the collection an entity and not individual contributions. That makes it hard to tell which object exactly is our number one.
Today Pierre and Veerle are still going on and they are even enriching the collection with authors (texts about shoes) and cartoonists (drawings).
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196
Gibson John
United States
1992-09-04 -
855
Brodwolf Jürgen
Germany
1995-08-16 -
1100
Streuli Beat
Germany
2007-05-29 -
1058
Belin Valérie
France
2006-12-18 -
170
Tadeusz Norbert
Germany
1992-07-30 -
248
Jones and Ginzel
United States
1992-12-01 -
1075
Plensa Jaume
Spain
2007-02-06 -
968
Wüthrich Peter
Switzerland
2006-02-14 -
107
Reis Mario
Germany
1992-04-21 -
491
Lootz Eva
Spain
1993-10-20