Carol Bove's seductive sculptures force us to confront our inner animal

Using everything from 30-million-year-old trees to white loop the loops, Bove’s easy-on-the-eye artworks could easily be plopped down in a corporate plaza. But they’re so much more intriguing than thatA 30-million-year-old petrified tree trunk is bolted to a vertical steel I-beam. It’s a brown thing climbing another brown thing, standing on the wooden floor at David Zwirner gallery in Mayfair. Nearby, a white steel tube does a loop the loop. This is called Noodle. My eye sucks it up like s