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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693
Strba Annelies
Switzerland
1994-09-12 -
1498
Wilder Aeneas
Great Britain
2013-04-15 -
820
Arico Rodolfo
Italy
1995-03-21 -
1357
Korsmit George
Netherlands
2010-09-02 -
1403
Morin Justin
France
2011-03-14 -
990
Ceccarelli Jean Jacques
France
2006-05-05 -
109
Wewerka Stefan
Germany
1992-04-25 -
1096
Bettineschi Mariella
Italy
2007-05-10 -
564
Collien Peter
Germany
1994-03-17 -
1634
Rothman Marjolein
2018-05-14