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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1282
Gross Sabine
Germany
2009-11-05 -
1654
Consani Michelangelo
Italy
2018-07-12 -
1406
Pollet-Brannen Arianne
Canada
2011-04-07 -
416
Wegman William
United States
1993-06-23 -
286
Laudisa Paolo
Italy
1993-01-16 -
703
Moura Leonel
Portugal
1994-09-28 -
325
Ulay
Netherlands
1993-03-24 -
346
Nicosia Nic
United States
1993-04-14 -
1622
Okamura Tim
2017-08-31 -
954
Prager Heinz-Gunther
Germany
2005-06-11