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| Jorge Aliaga Cacho en Edimburgo.
El aporte de Jorge Aliaga Cacho a la cultura británica ha sido reconocido en la obra de arte, del artista londinense, Yinka Shonibare. La obra titulada ''The British Library'' es parte de una exhibición permanente montada en la prestigiosa GALERÍA TATE, de Londres. Entre los personajes que destacan en la obra se encuentran inmigrantes al Reino Unido o hijos de extranjeros como Winston Churchill quien fuera hijo de madre estadounidense y Carlos Marx que viviera en el Reino Unido y fuese asiduo visitante del Museo Británico de Londres. La obra que debutó en el Festival de Brighton, Reino Unido, el año 2014, fue la refutación perfecta a la administración de Donald Trump y su vilipendio hacia los inmigrantes.
El trabajo artístico de Yinka Shonibare ha sido exhibido también en la Bienal realizada en Viena el año 2017 y en otras ciudades del Reino Unido. Actualmente la obra, comprada con fondos del Art Fund y otros provistos por el Consejo Internacional de la Tate Gallery, se encuentra en el segundo nivel del Edificio Natalie Bell, en la exhibición ''Artista y Sociedad'', del Tate Modern, Londres. La exhibición cuenta con tecnología digital in situ donde se puede encontrar información sobre los autores y personalidades seleccionadas. La entrada es libre.
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Ann Gallagher, Directora de la Colección de Arte Británico del Tate Gallery, dijo:
"La Biblioteca Británica es una nueva adquisición importante que permitirá al público involucrarse con las complejidades de la inmigración y la identidad nacional a través de la perspectiva reflexiva y perspicaz del artista Yinka Shonibare".
Ann Gallagher, Director of Collection, British Art, Tate said: ‘The British Library is an important new acquisition that will allow audiences to engage with the complexities of immigration and national identity through the reflective and insightful perspective of the artist Yinka Shonibare.’
For his latest exhibition, Yinka Shonibare has transformed part of Chelsea’s James Cohan gallery into a library, the stacks housing no less than 6,000 books bound in the Nigerian-British artist’s trademark Dutch wax printed cotton textile in a multitude of many-colored patterns.
It’s a visually compelling experience with a timely message: each book has the name of an immigrant to the UK printed on its spine, in celebration of their contributions to British culture. Some are well-known, like American-born author T.S. Eliot and Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid. Others are likely unfamiliar. There is a desk in the middle of the room, outfitted with iPads that visitors can use to look up the names and learn about the nature of their careers.
By Sarah Cascone.
The installation, titled The British Library, is making its first stateside appearance in this exhibition, having debuted at the UK’s Brighton Festival in 2014. The perfect rebuttal to the Donald Trump administration and its vilification of immigrants, it’s presented alongside three other works by Shonibare, plus one of his headless statues, depicting historic widow Eliza Jumel. Her ghost is still said to haunt the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, where the artist had a show in 2015.
The show opens with Orange Blob, an arrangement of paintings on textile hung against a rectangular section of orange wall paint. In the main gallery, The Victorian Philanthropist’s Parlour (1996–97), a set-like installation, places the sitting room of a wealthy 19th century family behind a velvet rope.
As always, the use of the wax printed batik textile, so popular in Africa, brings the background of colonialism to the fore, here suggesting the wealthy white man be put on the sort of enthographic display historically reserved for Asian, African, and Native American peoples in the World’s Fairs of the 19th century. It’s shown opposite of Dorian Gray (2001), a series of 12 photographs in which Shonibare retells the classic Oscar Wilde tale featuring a protagonist whose face never ages, while his portrait, kept a careful secret, shows the true degradation of his soul. Shonibare casts himself, a disabled black man, as Gray, assuming a position of power that would almost-certainly not have been open to him during the time the book was written. Together, the works offer a powerful statement about the dangers of prejudice, serving as a reminder that our global history is one of both migration and cultural diffusion.
Jorge Aliaga Cacho is in the list of contribuitors to British culture.
| John Saville | Father Greek | Historian |
| John Singer Sargent | Born Italy | Artist - portrait painter |
| John Singleton Copley | Born USA | Lawyer and politician |
| John Stallworthy | Parents New Zealanders | Poet and literary critic |
| John Templeton | Born USA | Financier and philanthropist |
| John Tusa | Born Czech Republic | Arts administrator and radio-television journalist |
| John Tyndall | Politician | |
| John Vanderbank | Father French | Artist - painter |
| John Vane | Father Russian | Scientist |
| John William Polidori | Father Italian | Writer and physician |
| John Yudkin | Parents Russian | Scientist |
| Johnnie Hoskins | Born New Zealand | Speedway promotor |
| Johnny Marr | Parents Irish | Musician and singer-songwriter |
| Johnson Beharry | Born Grenada | Soldier |
| Jon Boden | Born USA | Musician and singer |
| Jon Nurse | Born Bardados | Footballer |
| Jonathan Arnott | Politician and teacher | |
| Jonathan Lemalu | Born New Zealand | Opera singer |
| Joo Yeon Sir | Born South Korea | Musician - violinist |
| Jordan Banjo | Father Nigerian | Dancer |
| Jorge Aliaga Cacho | Born Peru | Writer and sociologist |
| Jorge Castano | Born Columbia | Wrestler |
| Jorge Robledo Oliver | Born Chile | Footballer |
| José Mourinho | Born Portugal | Football manager |
| Josef Franc | Born Czech Republic | Speedway rider |
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