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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817
Garutti Alberto
Italy
1995-03-21 -
363
Manz Jean Luc
Switzerland
1993-04-29 -
261
Sitte Willi
Germany
1992-12-16 -
918
Muthofer Ben
Germany
2003-05-12 -
627
Eckart Christian
United States
1994-06-08 -
712
Cabrita Reis Pedro
Portugal
1994-10-05 -
1299
Chaves Marcos
Brazil
2010-01-14 -
139
Romualdi Lucia
Italy
1992-06-23 -
1090
Abbagnara Marco Antonio
Italy
2007-04-27 -
1036
Weber Marnie
United States
2006-09-29