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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1050
Cooper Ron
United States
2008-12-31 -
943
Ciaccio Roberto
Italy
2004-04-17 -
833
Cahn Miriam
Switzerland
1995-04-10 -
1005
Dillemans Sam
Belgium
2006-06-02 -
611
Argimon Daniel
Spain
1994-05-19 -
973
Fleck Ralph
Germany
2006-03-02 -
800
Jones Allen
Great Britain
1995-03-01 -
1355
Dahlgren Jacob
Sweden
2010-08-27 -
598
Baumgarten Bodo
Germany
1994-04-22 -
689
Nemours Aurelie
France
1994-09-12