37 artists from 5 countries were inspired by the former slates from the roof of the railroad remise at the ferry port in Gedser. They were invited to this experiment by metal sculptor Bernard Misgajski. He had discovered the potential of these slabs for art and was looking for idiosyncratic pictorial compositions that had been created over 130 years by deposits, wind and weather. These "slate pictures", once mined in the slate mines of Wales and brought by sea to Gedser, he captured in the format 24 X 19.5 cm in steel frames.
.The juxtaposition of these traces of time on a rock millions of years old and the multiform adaptations in the same format by the artists invite us to witness the metamorphosis of a material.
A film essay about the initiator Bernard Misgajski by Gudrun Brigitta Nöh and Andrea Köster as well as an extensive catalog complement the exhibition.
An accompanying program of artist talks, readings, and lectures encourages new views of an ancient rock and artistic engagement with the brittle material.
The creation of the exhibition was made possible by the Hanseatic City of Rostock, the partner municipality of Guldborgsund, the Vorpommern-Fonds and numerous sponsors.
