Lavina4400

Lavina4400 is a fictional name behind Tamas Hlavnya, who lives and works in Hungary. "Lavina" is a nickname from art high school, and "4400" is the postal code of Nyiregyhaza, the city where he grew up. His works include sculpture, graphics and industrial design. These works are made out of obsession, for the joy of creation, not for a living. The central theme of these is car design. He designed his first car in 1994. Over the years, with street art detours is constantly dealing with this. He also approached street art from the perspective of cars. Since 2021, the intensity of his car design work has increased, and he is now living an extremely active creative period.

In every case, the creation takes its inspiration from a hand drawing. From the first minute, he creates scale drawings in a 1:10 ratio system. In this way, he avoids the disappointing contrast between the sketch that is far from reality and the proportional plans. An important moment in the hand drawing evening is to rest the drawing. During this time, the work continues, the idea matures. After a break, looking at it with fresh eyes, the errors and inappropriate details immediately catch your eye. After this, the creative work continues digitally. In this phase, all the details are put in place. Scaled, toned vector graphics and visual designs are created at the limit of feasibility. Thanks to vector graphics, a digital yet unique style of visual world is created. His designs blend the past, the present and the future. They carry the clean agelessness of art deco. His designs are both industrial and jewelry-like. They are primarily industrial and only then jewelry-like. This interesting duality gives the character of his work. He draws inspiration from his own car experiences, which he shapes in his own image. These are unique visions that we could even encounter on the streets.

Alternate render with construction sketch

The works of Tamás Hlavnya are presented at exhibitions. In recent years, he and his fellow artists have organized group exhibitions in Budapest and several Hungarian cities. These exhibitions were street art in nature, approaching painting, sculpture and graphics. But he has also had audio-visual experiments in recent years. His car designs, made since 2021, were presented in 2024 as part of a solo exhibition in Budapest, entitled "Fictional Cars". This is a collection of constantly expanding and renewing works, from which he plans to create an exhibition series. An integral element of this is to address the international car audience. Through his exhibitions, he works on building professional and private partnerships. The ultimate goal is to design a car according to individual needs on order, which is realized by the appropriate professional team.

XVI. National Small Plastic Arts Biennial - national juried exhibition - 1999. - Pécsi Galéria, Pécs
Exhibition for the Blind - group exhibition - 15. May 2004. - Képező Galéria, Budapest
Luminous Textiles - group exhibition - 2005. - Süss fel Nap!, Budapest
- 2005. - Süss fel Nap!, Budapest
- 2005. - West Balkán, Budapest
Le Mans - audio-visual action - 16. October 2005. - Tűztér, Budapest
In Volvo Gallery - group exhibition - 21. June 2007. - Volvo Galéria, Budapest
Fain Arts - group exhibition - 24. June 2011. - Ateliers Pro Arts, Budapest
Fictional Cars - individual exhibition - 1. June 2024. - Budapest, Carl Lutz rkp.

...and then you look back at your car in the parking lot.

You don't do it because you want to check if you parked it correctly. You look back at it because you like what you see. This packaging comes in handy.

You like it. Everything is in place, you see everything as good. There is not a single bad line on it, there is no exaggerated formal solution anywhere. You see the idea in the form. You see the idea! it is good that all sorts of details support this and do not confuse it.

And this character! he gives it away from every angle. You cannot mistake him for anything. You definitely feel that you fit together. You can identify with this form. When you look at him face to face (as you do now), it is like meeting an old friend.

You squint and see your childhood favorite in it. You remember how much you loved it when you were a kid. But your current car is more like what your old favorite should have always been. Yes, this current one is definitely better.

You've finished your work in the meantime. You go back to the parking lot. And then you see your car. And as you approach it....

the car is an expression of individuality!

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