Francis Morris, the Director of Tate Modern, has
spoken about the increasing difficulty to persuade institutions to send their most prized
works abroad, and managing to get the
rarely seen Monogram, 1955 - 59 — an outlandish hybrid of sculpture and painting featuring a stuffed Angora goat — from the Moderna Museet in Stockholm is a sizeable coup.
It is true that Eastwood's
work is not for those who like «pretty pictures» and colourful abstracts that tie the room together, his art is one that
speaks to the viewer directly
about a world
rarely seen at the glitzy art fairs and Mayfair openings.