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One Deck of Cards Functions designer: Tauba Auerbach design year: 2009 manufacturer: Dzek, USA materials: debossed linen case; graphite center stock cards with plastic coat notes: The Functions deck uses the basic math functions + - x ÷ to represent the four suits. The face cards are platonic solids, and the jokers are ≠ and ∞. 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 Tauba Aurbach's 50/50 series, an exploration the artist makes on the subject of opposites and language. Also, 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. Functions is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and also of the Whitney Tauba Auerbach has been named a 2010 Whitney Biennial Artist. produced in a numbered and signed limited edition of 250 decks price: $175.00