HOW MANY IS ONE
Deganit Stern‑Schocken
2021
Jewellery / Objects / Installations
How Many Is One encapsulates one of the fundamental questions at the core of art and design. This issue is highly pertinent to jewelry design as a language that seeks form through which to articulate ideas. The oeuvre of Deganit Stern Schocken (b. 1947) has delved into the socio-political question of place, creating works in which text is incorporated as an integral part of the object; in the process the artist has adhered to the classical language of jewelry while employing state-of-the-art technologies.
The book explores the architectural-planning aspect in Stern Schocken’s jewelry. While each object stands in its own right (like a building), it is also part of a system (the city). The trial-and-error process of casting and the notion of “value” also play an important role in the artist’s work, which alludes to local society and Israeli reality.
- Design: Gila Kaplan
- Texts: Helen Britton, Itzhak Carmel, Uriel Miron, Gideon Ofrat, Aharon Shabtai, Jonathan Ventura, Meira Yagid-Haimovici
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 270
- Type of binding: Hard cover
- Dimensions (cm): 19X25
- Printing: Schleunung, Marktheidenfeld
- Binding: Hubert & Co, Gottingen
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Arnoldsche
- Place of publication: Europe
- Supported by: Shenkar Collage
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 978-3-89790-607-5
Deganit Stern-Schocken is an Israeli designer and artist; her original training in architecture imbues each piece with an underlying formal structure. Her works may address concerns as disparate as the commercial jewelry industry and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with materials ranging from sterling silver and gemstones to smashed soda cans and pages from children’s books. She holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and MFA from Middlesex University, London. She is the founder and former Head of the Department of Jewelry Design, at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Stern-Schocken has received several awards and accolades, including the Alix de Rothschild Foundation Prize. She is represented in numerous public collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway; Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.
