Kostis Damoulakis "Jamer" (1986) - Context Window 2 (Geeking)
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Original, unique artwork by Kostis Damoulakis “Jamer” (b. 1986), Context Window 2 (Geeking), 2025, mixed media on canvas, 100 cm high by 90 cm wide, framed, in excellent condition, produced in Greece and sold by MP ARTS AGENCY as an original edition with certificate of authenticity.
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Artist name: Kostis Damoulakis (Jamer)
Nationality: Greek
Date of birth: 1986, Athens, Greece
Title of the work: Context Window 2 (Geeking)
Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 100 cm x 90 cm
Framing: Yes
Details of the signature:
Hand-signed by the artist
Edition:
Unique work (no numbering, original artwork).
Provenance:
Work directly from the artist Kostis Damoulakis' studio. The work is for sale with an authenticity certificate issued by the agency representing the artist, MP ARTS AGENCY.
Documentation:
Authenticity certificate issued by MP ARTS AGENCY.
Condition:
The work is in perfect condition, with no notable imperfections.
Delivery:
The work will be shipped from Greece, carefully packed.
It will be shipped framed, with insured delivery.
About the work:
This work originates from a collaborative trilogy that unfolds across three distinct yet interconnected production strata, forming a multilayered trajectory from material to immaterial. At its base lies the primordial gesture of oil painting, where the tactile act of manual creation functions as a performative reference to the historicity of painting. Encased by structures designed from digital gestures and materialized through the mechanical work of 3D printing, the materiality transforms, extending the traditional notion of manual creation toward a techno-industrial production regime.
The third strata introduces the dematerialized dimension of the digital. The image, derived from algorithmic processes, moves away from the physical gesture and shifts into a purely computational field, where creation is no longer mediated by the hand but by the autonomy of code, while being evoked through the contemporary performative equivalent of the act of speaking: the prompt. The thus-substantiated image returns to nourish the materiality of the painterly gesture, completing a total cycle, an ouroboros.
The iconography draws on the history of painting, reassembled through a surrealist prism that redefines its potential for representation. These “materialized gestures” operate at the boundary between the real and the imaginary, highlighting the multiplicity of materialities and their dynamic coexistence.
Integrated screens introduce a performative and evolving element: in real time, the growth of cells is simulated through Conway’s Game of Life, an early algorithmic system considered a precursor to artificial intelligence and a famous example of cellular automata. The biological process itself thus becomes an aesthetic event, reconfiguring the act of creation as a form of simulated culture.
About the artist:
Kostis Damoulakis is a Greek visual artist living and working in Athens. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, over the past twenty years he has developed an artistic practice deeply influenced by his involvement in graffiti and tattooing, two disciplines that have left a lasting mark on his visual language, references, and the very structure of his works.
Primarily using painting as his medium, he composes deliberately contemporary works that draw their symbols from different artistic movements, cultures, and eras. His work explores urban daily life by placing the human body at the center of the composition, giving rise to a form of poetry of the ordinary and the mundane. Through figures in motion, street scenes, and suspended moments, he captures the rhythms of city life and the quiet emotions that run through it.
His works are today part of private collections in Greece and internationally, while his murals are visible in many cities around the world. He has presented his work in several solo exhibitions, notably at PET Projects (Athens), Neo Cosmos – Laboratory for the Urban Commons, Montana Gallery Barcelona (Spain), and Lola Nikolaou Gallery in Thessaloniki.
He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in major institutions and art venues, including the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center, a.antonopoulou.art gallery, the Athens School of Fine Arts, and the Art-Thessaloniki International Art Fair (2018).
In 2022, he received the ARTWORKS prize and became a fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation artist support program, a recognition of his significant contribution to the Greek contemporary art scene.
Under the pseudonym Jamer, he also pursues work related to the urban space. In 2024, he presented Urban Life, his first solo exhibition on the island of Syros. Through bold shapes, vivid colors, and poetic realism, this series features city dwellers in motion, at rest, or in contemplation, paying homage to everyday life and the deeply human dimension of urban experience.
Between studio painting and mural interventions, Kostis Damoulakis thus develops a sensitive and contemporary body of work at the crossroads of street art and modern figuration, where the body, the city, and everyday lived experience become the central elements of a visual narrative deeply rooted in his era.
Artist name: Kostis Damoulakis (Jamer)
Nationality: Greek
Date of birth: 1986, Athens, Greece
Title of the work: Context Window 2 (Geeking)
Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 100 cm x 90 cm
Framing: Yes
Details of the signature:
Hand-signed by the artist
Edition:
Unique work (no numbering, original artwork).
Provenance:
Work directly from the artist Kostis Damoulakis' studio. The work is for sale with an authenticity certificate issued by the agency representing the artist, MP ARTS AGENCY.
Documentation:
Authenticity certificate issued by MP ARTS AGENCY.
Condition:
The work is in perfect condition, with no notable imperfections.
Delivery:
The work will be shipped from Greece, carefully packed.
It will be shipped framed, with insured delivery.
About the work:
This work originates from a collaborative trilogy that unfolds across three distinct yet interconnected production strata, forming a multilayered trajectory from material to immaterial. At its base lies the primordial gesture of oil painting, where the tactile act of manual creation functions as a performative reference to the historicity of painting. Encased by structures designed from digital gestures and materialized through the mechanical work of 3D printing, the materiality transforms, extending the traditional notion of manual creation toward a techno-industrial production regime.
The third strata introduces the dematerialized dimension of the digital. The image, derived from algorithmic processes, moves away from the physical gesture and shifts into a purely computational field, where creation is no longer mediated by the hand but by the autonomy of code, while being evoked through the contemporary performative equivalent of the act of speaking: the prompt. The thus-substantiated image returns to nourish the materiality of the painterly gesture, completing a total cycle, an ouroboros.
The iconography draws on the history of painting, reassembled through a surrealist prism that redefines its potential for representation. These “materialized gestures” operate at the boundary between the real and the imaginary, highlighting the multiplicity of materialities and their dynamic coexistence.
Integrated screens introduce a performative and evolving element: in real time, the growth of cells is simulated through Conway’s Game of Life, an early algorithmic system considered a precursor to artificial intelligence and a famous example of cellular automata. The biological process itself thus becomes an aesthetic event, reconfiguring the act of creation as a form of simulated culture.
About the artist:
Kostis Damoulakis is a Greek visual artist living and working in Athens. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, over the past twenty years he has developed an artistic practice deeply influenced by his involvement in graffiti and tattooing, two disciplines that have left a lasting mark on his visual language, references, and the very structure of his works.
Primarily using painting as his medium, he composes deliberately contemporary works that draw their symbols from different artistic movements, cultures, and eras. His work explores urban daily life by placing the human body at the center of the composition, giving rise to a form of poetry of the ordinary and the mundane. Through figures in motion, street scenes, and suspended moments, he captures the rhythms of city life and the quiet emotions that run through it.
His works are today part of private collections in Greece and internationally, while his murals are visible in many cities around the world. He has presented his work in several solo exhibitions, notably at PET Projects (Athens), Neo Cosmos – Laboratory for the Urban Commons, Montana Gallery Barcelona (Spain), and Lola Nikolaou Gallery in Thessaloniki.
He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in major institutions and art venues, including the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center, a.antonopoulou.art gallery, the Athens School of Fine Arts, and the Art-Thessaloniki International Art Fair (2018).
In 2022, he received the ARTWORKS prize and became a fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation artist support program, a recognition of his significant contribution to the Greek contemporary art scene.
Under the pseudonym Jamer, he also pursues work related to the urban space. In 2024, he presented Urban Life, his first solo exhibition on the island of Syros. Through bold shapes, vivid colors, and poetic realism, this series features city dwellers in motion, at rest, or in contemplation, paying homage to everyday life and the deeply human dimension of urban experience.
Between studio painting and mural interventions, Kostis Damoulakis thus develops a sensitive and contemporary body of work at the crossroads of street art and modern figuration, where the body, the city, and everyday lived experience become the central elements of a visual narrative deeply rooted in his era.
Details
Artist
Kostis Damoulakis "Jamer" (1986)
Sold with frame
Yes
Sold by
Agent
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Context Window 2 (Geeking)
Technique
Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Greece
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
100 cm
Width
90 cm
Style
Surrealism
Period
2020+
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