Lightning strikes three times in the same spot at Gladstone Gallery’s high-ceilinged 21st Street space in the form of bronze sculpture by Swiss New Yorker Ugo Rondinone. Trees scanned, 3-D printed and cast in bronze have been inverted to resemble day glow yellow bolts of light; at the same time, they belong to the terrestrial realm by still clearly resembling trees. As nature upends our expectations again and again through storms, floods and extreme temperatures, Rondinone questions the natural order. (On view in Chelsea through Nov 9th.
