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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697
Kuwayama Tadaaki
United States
1994-09-19 -
640
Steinbach Haim
United States
1994-06-08 -
710
Schad Robert
Germany
1994-10-04 -
579
Icaro Paolo
Italy
1994-03-26 -
1233
Fayyazi Bita
Iran
2009-04-11 -
72
Bogart Bram
Belgium
1992-03-11 -
1191
Roiter Andrei
Netherlands
2008-08-06 -
1674
Karjalainen Hannu
2019-07-26 -
154
Oroschakoff Haralompi
Germany
1992-07-17 -
914
Amoruso Giampaolo
Belgium
2003-03-02