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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37
Böhm Hartmut
Germany
1992-02-03 -
1437
Lambert Alix
United States
2012-01-10 -
298
Stocker Ludwig
Switzerland
1993-02-10 -
1341
Cameiro da Cunha Tiago
Brazil
2010-07-26 -
573
Vacchi Sergio
Italy
1994-03-24 -
1581
Ceeh Toshain
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105
Distel Herbert
Switzerland
1992-04-18 -
947
Tajiri Shinkichi
Netherlands
2006-04-23 -
134
Blake John C.
Netherlands
1992-06-19 -
190
Sanders Har
Netherlands
1992-08-26