New step in the Detour journey: Shanghai

Detour, the travelling exhibition of decorated Moleskine notebooks, comes to a new chapter, in Shanghai at Bund18. The personal journals and sketchbooks created by 50 internationally celebrated authors will be on display until November 20th. Along with renowned international names such as designers Ron Arad, Karim Said, Tord Boontje and musicians Sigur Ros, many new Chinese authors, coming from several backgrounds, have joined the show. Among them, the celebrated film directors Zhang Yuan, Cheng Liang and Jia Zhangke, the fashion designer Joseph Li, the photographer Wang Xiaohui, the blogger Han Han, the designers Alan Chan and Lv Yong Zhong, the musician-deejay Mc Yan, and the visual artists Ai WeiWei and Yang Yongliang. Many authors attended the opening party on October 20th, watch the video and click on Flickr to discover the guests.
 
Curated by Raffaella Guidobono, Detour displays the notebooks in transparent boxes, specially designed for the exhibit by Italian studio Zetalab, with openings for hands, through which the public can actually touch and browse through the authors pages, after wearing special gloves. Some works contain extensive stories, some are just collectors of rough ideas jotted down quickly by the authors, and some others are turned into pieces of contemporary art and design.