PRESS PACK 2 APRIL 2019 Media contact Laurence Berlamont-Equey
[email protected] T +41 22 418 45 73 M +41 79 661 83 66 2 MEG / Press Pack 2019 The Fairy Tale Factory SUMMARY Editorial 5The theatres of the imagination 25 The Spindle, the Shuttle and the Needle 26 Preface 7 The Fisherman, his Wife and Introduction 10 the Golden Fish 28 Vines and Wine 30 The Exhibition’s Scenography 11 The Bear in Love 32 Number of objects in The Moon and the She-wolf 34 the exhibition 12 Mary’s Bread 36 Artists’ biographies 14 Godmother Death 38 Carll Cneut 14 The Devil’s Trousers 40 Camille Garoche 14 The strings of the tales 43 Kalonji 15 Fixing the stories 44 Lorenzo Mattotti 15 Collecting and classifying 46 Fabrice Melquiot 16 Storytelling 48 Exhibition texts 19 Putting into pictures 50 The Fairy Tale Factory 20 Constructing identity 52 The Fairy Tale Factory : Training minds 54 instructions for use 21 Glossary 58 Programme of activities 60 Publications 62 Contributions 64 Key information 66 Practical information 67 The MEG 68 Visuals of the exhibition 69 MEG / Press Pack 2019 The Fairy Tale Factory 3 4 MEG / Press Pack 2019 The Fairy Tale Factory Boris Wastiau Director of the MEG The sixth large-scale temporary exhibition since the reopening of the MEG in November 2014, “The Fairy Tale Factory” marks the end of a fi rst cycle which has taken us on journeys from one continent to another and across EDITORIAL the centuries. After exploring religion and politics in pre-Columbian Moche society (2014-2015), we focused on the richness of Buddhist Japanism in the late 19th century (2015).