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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529
Opalka Roman
France
1994-01-04 -
77
Schultze Bernard
Germany
1992-03-16 -
742
Berkulin Arie
Netherlands
1994-11-03 -
1346
Alejo Mauricio
United States
2010-08-02 -
840
Corbeira Dario
Spain
1995-05-11 -
1505
Slaats Miriam
Netherlands
2013-04-24 -
1380
Veneman Peer
Netherlands
2010-10-22 -
385
Scaccabarozzi Antonio
Italy
1993-05-21 -
421
Strobl Ingeborg
Austria
1993-06-24 -
1591
Costa Luis Paulo
2016-02-23