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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244
Akkerman Philip
Netherlands
1992-11-24 -
606
Schlegel Eva
Austria
1994-04-28 -
1183
Bhabha Huma
United States
2008-07-01 -
1270
Bernhardt Katherine
United States
2009-10-08 -
1486
Albarracín Pilar
Spain
2012-12-04 -
330
Costa Claudio
Italy
1993-03-30 -
1566
Tiago Alexandre
Portugal
2015-04-15 -
568
Bonalumi Agostino
Italy
1994-03-21 -
1265
Schrikker Simon
Netherlands
2009-09-15 -
1018
Kirschner Wulf
Germany
2006-06-08