The monumental sculpture “Wittgenstein-Generator” is based on the book “Tractatus logico-philosophicus” by L. Wittgenstein. Based on his idea of defining a precise language that cannot be misunderstood, the artist Jochen Höller divided the entire book into the linguistic parts and then put them together again into a Text-Machine. With this system the entire content of the book can be reconstructed. Höller deals with the transformation from book to sculpture, which becomes a tool for him, so to speak, uses Wittgenstein’s words and thereby creates new content.

Or to put it in Wittgenstein’s words: “What can be said at all, can be said clearly; and what cannot be said must be kept silent about.”

Texts are my basis, books are my material – their contents create an idea of the world – but a changed look at them allows us to understand them differently – the world is, so to speak, a series of relative truths – or is it never so as it appears to us?