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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1215
Geismar Järg
Germany
2009-02-24 -
224
Tilson Joe
Great Britain
1992-10-19 -
6
Mara Pol
Belgium
1991-12-05 -
1022
Bonvicini Monica
Germany
2006-06-10 -
260
Wolf Silvio
Italy
1992-12-14 -
999
Halbert Bill
United States
2006-05-24 -
1558
Labastie Rachel
France
2014-11-25 -
251
Max Cole
United States
1992-12-04 -
517
Kasseböhmer Axel
Germany
1993-12-08 -
665
Cordier Pierre
Belgium
1994-08-08