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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626
DiBenedetto Steve
United States
1994-06-08 -
611
Argimon Daniel
Spain
1994-05-19 -
88
Venet Bernar
France
1992-03-31 -
731
De Cordier Thierry
Belgium
1994-10-24 -
771
Geccelli Johannes
Germany
1994-12-08 -
1114
Antille Emmanuelle
Switzerland
2007-07-26 -
463
Scheibl Hubert
Austria
1993-09-02 -
1422
Valetine Jessica Parker
2011-08-30 -
337
Surls James
United States
1993-04-06 -
80
Baruchello Gianfranco
Italy
1992-03-20