Designers and artist from all over the world honour the iconic shoe designer Jan Jansen with the unique works of art that have been designed and made specially for the Jan Jansen Shoe Treasure project. Every work of art is inspired by shoes in the private collection of Jan & Tonny Jansen. The artists were given carte blanche to create new objects out of selected Jan Jansen shoes. On show at Rokin 75, Amsterdam on the 6th floor. From 17 till 20 November 2017.

The exhibition is an initiative by Amber Ambrose Aurèle (art historian and designer under her brand name) and Liza Snook (collector and founder of the Virtual Shoe Museum). For this project, Jan Jansen donated shoes from his private collection, consisting of more than 4.000 models. This includes the iconic “What is This?”, the “Bruno”, the famous “hovering wedge” and countless others. The artists had carte blanche to create new objects from the shoes. This resulted in one of a kind artworks, from sculptures with gold leaf to woodcuts and exuberant dolls.

Artists and designers

ONA B. (Oostenrijk), Peter Dautzenberg (NL), Fantich&Young (UK), Liselore Frowijn (NL), Joyce de Gruiter (NL), Ray Horacek (Japan), Lok Jansen (Japan), Jonghlabel (NL), Kei Kagami (UK), Hetty Kelderman (NL), Bas Kosters (NL), Jasper Krabbé (NL), Costis Magarakis (Israël), MOAM (NL), Ted Noten (NL), Alet Pilon (NL), Elvira Rajek (Oostenrijk), Joop Rubens (NL), Ton van der Spruit (NL), Swip Stolk (NL), Marie Verstegen (NL), Albert van der Weide (NL), Lie van der Werff (NL).

Special thanks to

Jan & Tonny Jansen, Lok Jansen,Joyce de Gruiter & Peter Willemse, Jos van Moorsel, dhr. A.H. Hartman, Mike Ditmann, Marie & Hanny Verstegen, and to all artists who share our passion for shoes and have patricide in the Jan Jansen Shoe Treasures project.

https://www.janjansenshoetreasures.com