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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596
Marioni Joseph
United States
1994-04-20 -
1213
Bertin Gaston
Spain
2008-02-13 -
1547
Kaljo Kai
Estonia
2014-04-29 -
848
Trier Hahn
Germany
1995-07-02 -
450
Strik Berend
Netherlands
1993-08-13 -
931
Aguilar Sergi
Spain
2003-09-09 -
952
Hofschen Edgar
Germany
2005-06-11 -
561
Odenbach Marcel
Germany
1994-03-15 -
1171
Spring Lorenz
Switzerland
2008-05-27 -
789
Disler Martin
Switzerland
1995-01-14