Moleskine ® - Legendary notebook - Detour Berlin, the Moleskine Notebook Experience

Fiona Bennett

Mirko Borsche

All of them deliver an intimate insight into the artists' creative process. The Moleskine notebooks are exhibited in transparent boxes designed especially for Detour.
Visitor can leaf through the books after donning white cotton gloves, provided at the entrance. Among the Moleskine notebooks that all visitors can leaf through are even displayed the notebooks of artist such as Spike Jonze, Ron Arad, Joep van Lieshout and Birgit Brenner. The artwork of Joep van Lieshout is enveloped in a cocoon, its spherical shape hiding the contents of the notebook. Reduced to a black line, interrupting the continuity of a polyurethane foam bubble, the artwork does not allow for much interaction. Ron Arad focuses on the day-to-day aspect of design, representing moments and even images in which he develops links with imaginary sounds and displays an innate sense of design and composition. The film director Spike Jonze turned his notebook into an unusual scene, exploiting the long format of the Japanese notebook to create the start and end of a story on the first and last pages. As if constituting the trailer of a film or its crucial scene, the notebook is held together by a drawstring, ready to open like a stage curtain.

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Birgit Brenner's notebook is entirely characterized by a weft of threads, the story ending
with an interwoven reel of unspoken sentences that simply slip into the pocket.
After the exhibition in Berlin, Detour will travel on to Istanbul and Tokyo. Through the
changing exhibition locations, Detour is always attracting new artists to the project. Special care is taken to expose the creative artists that are particularly related to the cities where exhibitions take place. The notebooks displayed during all Detour exhibitions are permanently shown on the Moleskine website. Raffaella Guidobono is the curator of the Detour group show in Berlin. She has also curated the Detour group shows in Paris, New York and London.
The exhibition design is conceived and realized by Zetalab, Milan.