Hajas, Tibor: To The Streets With Your Message II. (Live Comics) (1975)

Tibor Hajas (1946, Budapest − 1980, Szeged) is an artist and performer. He broke off his university studies in English after his arrest following a street demonstration. When he was released on general amnesty, he studied bookbinding and worked in an industrial wood and paper cooperative. He considered himself primarily a poet, his art was self-taught, with an output beginning in the late 60s with a conceptual tilt. His To the Streets with your Message I−II is one of his first manifestations of this conceptualism: the visual documentation of poetry written on the side of a building, and the act of its writing as action art. In the spirit of other works of the day, A Letter to My Friend in Paris can be taken as the documentation of an art action. The series of pictures on exhibition shows the use of photographs, which became increasingly important in Hajas' work beginning in the early 70s. His work Living Comics initially seems to be part of cut-out cardboard speech bubbles applied to a photograph and carried on the street by the artist − but is in fact a physical component of this art action.