{"id":899,"date":"2016-07-25T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=899"},"modified":"2021-09-12T00:27:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T00:27:24","slug":"filling-in-the-gapscushla-donaldsons-public-dream-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Filling in the gaps <h3><em>Public Dream: Liquidation<\/em> by Cushla Donaldson<\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An inventory of Caravaggio\u2019s household contents was drawn up when his tenancy ended abruptly in August 1605 \u2026 Reading it is like leafing through a dossier of arbitrarily cropped and framed snapshots of the things a man once owned \u2013 the furniture he sat on, the weapons with which he fought, the books he read, the tools he used. But all the photographs are just a little out of focus. Crucial details are missing and there is no one to fill in the gaps.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><br>\u2014Andrew Graham-Dixon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above quotation seems a fitting place to start a discussion of Cushla Donaldson\u2019s recent exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cushladonaldson.com\/exhibitions\/#\/new-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Public Dream: Liquidation<\/em><\/a>. Occupying the store frontage on Karangahape Road that is the artist-run initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/rockies247.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rockies<\/a>, the show was dedicated to the former staff of a nearby Dick Smith store, laid off when the chain went into receivership. The inventory referred to by Graham-Dixon notes items owned by the great Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571\u20131610) and seized by his landlady, Prudentia Bruni, in lieu of unpaid rent. It took pride of place in Donaldson\u2019s display, picked out in elegant gold lettering on three glass panels mounted on (equally elegant) unstained rimu bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.circuit.org.nz\/blog\/filling-in-the-gaps-cushla-donaldson\u2019s-public-dream-liquidation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a> on CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Public Dream: Liquidation<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Cushla Donaldson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 April to 8 May 2016<br>Rockies<br>T\u0101maki Makaurau Auckland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Andrew Graham-Dixon,&nbsp;<em>Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane<\/em> (London: Allen Lane, 2010), 271.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inventory of Caravaggio\u2019s household contents was drawn up when his tenancy ended abruptly in August 1605 \u2026 Reading it is like leafing through a dossier of arbitrarily cropped and framed snapshots of the things a man once owned \u2013 the furniture he sat on, the weapons with which he fought, the books he read, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-cushla-donaldson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}