<Double paysage, tempête électrique>

Joseph Sima, of Czech origin, moved to Paris in 1921, where he became friends with many poets, with whom he shared the same sensitivity to sensory and spiritual experiences. In 1924, on a stormy night, he was struck by the sight of a lightning bolt illuminating a dead chestnut tree. From that moment on, he produced drawings and paintings on the theme of the double landscape and the relationship between matter and light. In this repeated scene, in which life and death coexist, the geometric blocks and blue halos seem to come from an unknown space and time.