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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1423
Weinberger Lois
Austria
2011-09-29 -
1189
Fulton Hamish
United Kingdom
2008-07-28 -
1286
Baxter Bhakti
United States
2009-11-13 -
790
Bodnar Eva Eszter
Austria
1995-01-20 -
1479
Bühlmann Max
Switzerland
2012-09-26 -
36
Bendini Vasco
Italy
1992-02-03 -
158
Salentin Hans
Germany
1992-07-23 -
598
Baumgarten Bodo
Germany
1994-04-22 -
975
Hein Birgit
Germany
2006-03-09 -
1487
Larraz Julio
Cuba
2013-01-04