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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1216
Carstensen Claus
Denmark
2009-03-03 -
1310
Apfelbaum Polly
United States
2010-03-06 -
351
Nevalainen Pekka
Finland
1993-04-20 -
513
Müller Jozef Felix
Switzerland
1993-12-01 -
1455
Kokene Djamel
France
2012-02-21 -
820
Arico Rodolfo
Italy
1995-03-21 -
548
Smith Alexis
United States
1994-02-15 -
1088
Just Michael
Germany
2007-04-25 -
1398
Rose Matthew
France
2011-02-28 -
514
Blank Irma
Italy
1993-12-02