One Deck of Cards
Dzek
$175.00
Created by artist Tauba Auerbach, the series One Deck of Cards consists of two different decks, one based on mathematical functions and the other on geometric shapes. Auerbach created original art as well as three new typefaces, king, queen, and knave, for the project. Decks come with an informational fold out and are encased in a hand numbered, blind-de-bossed, linen slide box with ribbon lift and pull-tab. The project was produced in collaboration with Brent Dzekciorius of DZEK, an editor and publisher of design and art multiples.
Functions Deck/White
The Functions Deck uses the basic math functions + - x ÷ as suits. The face cards are platonic solids and the jokers are ≠ and ∞ (perhaps torturous but also enchanting ideas/symbols.) Instead of red and black, the suits are black on a white background or white on a black background, so the deck is half black and half white, in keeping with the 50/50 series. Each suit and its counterpart are opposites… so addition is black on white, while subtraction is white on black. These functions cancel out or counteract each other mathematically as well, so they are inversions in both color and in function.
Shapes Deck/Green
The Shapes deck has four geometric shapes as suits, intended to invoke the typical suits, but in an abstracted way.This deck is more classic, red and black on white with the royal family represented as platonic solids, the same as in the Functions deck. Jokers are scribbles and amoebas.
Tauba Auerbach's work will be featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. She was also included in the New Museumʼs, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus. This past fall, her second solo show at Deitch Projects, titled, here and now/and nowhere, received significant critical acclaim.
Edition: 250 for each deck + 10 Artist Proofs
