Isabelle Carabantes’s Bull’s Head asserts itself first through its frontal presence. The volume rises from the base like a block of contained force: broad when seen head‑on, compact, leaning forward. The young bull is not depicted in the charge, but in that suspended moment when the animal stands at the threshold of its own power. The horns open in an arc, without excessive

Isabelle Carabantes: Instituting the Living, Reinventing Contemporary Animal Sculpture.