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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640
Steinbach Haim
United States
1994-06-08 -
397
Meller Ingo
Germany
1993-06-03 -
391
Matt Kurt
Austria
1993-05-26 -
859
Lijn Liliane
Great Britain
1995-09-11 -
1460
Takemura Kei
Germany
2012-03-02 -
773
Höfer Candida
Germany
1994-12-09 -
481
Baranik Rudolf
United States
1993-10-04 -
322
Sughi Alberto
Italy
1993-03-22 -
1446
Declercq Alain
France
2012-01-31 -
498
Swan Douglas
Germany
1993-11-04