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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732
Anatol
Germany
1994-10-26 -
603
Van Den Plas Nicole
Germany
1994-04-25 -
1517
Bauer Marc
Switzerland
2013-08-19 -
1419
Schlüters Eske
Germany
2011-06-28 -
153
Megert Christian
Switzerland
1992-07-17 -
310
Kriesche Richard
Austria
1993-03-01 -
841
Vandekerckhove Hans
Belgium
1995-05-12 -
334
Svenungsson Jan
Sweden
1993-04-05 -
477
Lutes Jim
United States
1993-09-27 -
273
Moses Ed
United States
1992-12-30