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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424
Walther Franz-Erhard
Germany
1993-07-02 -
19
Van Der Kraan Axel & Helene
Netherlands
1991-12-30 -
292
Accardi Carla
Italy
1993-01-26 -
698
Staudacher Hans
Austria
1994-09-19 -
949
Fischer Roland
Germany
2005-06-08 -
462
Scanreigh Jean Marc
France
1993-09-02 -
1494
Moudov Ivan
2013-03-26 -
555
Uncini Giuseppe
Italy
1994-03-08 -
97
Scholte Rob
Netherlands
1992-04-09 -
638
Smyth Ned
United States
1994-06-08