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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201
Trenkwalder Elmar
Austria
1992-09-08 -
946
Delrue Ronny
Belgium
2004-04-22 -
905
Vanmechelen Koen
Belgium
2001-06-21 -
453
Bucher André
Switzerland
1993-08-18 -
158
Salentin Hans
Germany
1992-07-23 -
536
Antes Horst
Germany
1994-01-19 -
967
Stein Joel
France
2006-02-09 -
83
Nash David
Great Britain
1992-03-23 -
1327
Orlow Uriel
United Kingdom
2010-05-31 -
1358
Adach Adam
Poland
2010-09-13