Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Circa 1982
Work
L'exécution
1982
140.0cm x 150.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
Constant was very shocked by the brutal, planned murder of four Dutch journalists - Koos Koster, Hans ter Laag, Jan Kuiper and Joop Willemsen - who worked for IKON and wanted to report on the civil war in El Salvador in 1982. The four journalists had been ambushed - a bowl in the middle of wooded hills - where about twenty armed soldiers had holed up. This made escape impossible for the four.
