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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889
Lang Nikolaus
Germany
1999-05-12 -
1003
Carrino Nicola
Italy
2006-05-30 -
1165
Von Rydingsvard Ursula
United States
2008-04-11 -
1396
Susplugas Jeanne
France
2011-02-11 -
481
Baranik Rudolf
United States
1993-10-04 -
39
Murphy John
Great Britain
1992-02-04 -
924
De Keyser Bert
Belgium
2003-05-16 -
608
Arman
France
1994-05-13 -
861
Oldenburg Claes
United States
1995-10-12 -
206
Cozic
Canada
1992-09-16