El estupor y la maravilla

Fascinated by the idea of guarding works of art, Alois Vogel works as a caretaker at the Expressionist Museum in Koblenz, his hometown. After twenty-five years as an employee in this institution, he begins to write his memoirs, in which he gives an account of an apparently insignificant and insignificant life, but of a truly astonishing intensity. Manic to grotesque extremes, but also tender and in love, Vogel tells us, as a child who sees the world for the first time would, the stories he invents about the visitors who enter his room; his tormented or friendly relationship with his companions; his sensations and feelings towards the great masters of German expressionism; his love of beer and solitude, understood as a field of experimentation... All his reflections, as absurd as they are overwhelming, as well as his reactions, always revealing a structural shyness, make him such a solitary, extravagant and marginal type, as mysteriously endearing and familiar. His infinite imaginary conversations and his silencing practices make him discover the extraordinary world of the small.