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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1625
Broek Hans
United States
2017-09-18 -
816
Cattelan Maurizio
Italy
1995-03-21 -
318
Brey Ricardo
Belgium
1993-03-17 -
428
Meier Al
Switzerland
1993-07-07 -
1212
Astman Barbara
United States
2009-02-10 -
1518
Schu Manfredu
Austria
2013-09-20 -
202
Winnewisser Rolf
Switzerland
1992-09-08 -
1034
Hernandez Diango
Germany
2006-09-15 -
1490
Lopez Lello
Italy
2013-02-04 -
983
Buetti Daniele
Switzerland
2006-04-07