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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167
Blum Heiner
Germany
1992-07-29 -
1008
Stockmans Piet
Belgium
2006-06-03 -
53
Vaccari Wainer
Italy
1992-02-25 -
144
Prelog Drago
Austria
1992-07-01 -
1350
Ganahl Rainer
United States
2010-08-17 -
219
Noël Georges
France
1992-10-15 -
637
Skoglund Sandy
United States
1994-06-08 -
1003
Carrino Nicola
Italy
2006-05-30 -
1418
Bragigand Franck
Netherlands
2011-06-07 -
836
Wasserburger C A
Germany
1995-04-20