Portfolio – Stories & Art by Kaikaoss
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We want to give you an insight into the works of Kaikaoss – including background information, stories, and facts about each piece.
Although we cannot display every work, we aim to present a selection that offers a comprehensive impression of Kaikaoss’s artistic creations.
Thank you for your interest – and enjoy exploring!
Sound of Color – Music in the Art of Kaikaoss"
This series centers around music – as a theme, a mood, a silent rhythm. Notes, instruments, and still life elements blend into visual compositions full of sound and color.
Kaikaoss studied the clarinet as a hobby, taking lessons with a teacher.
“One day, I’ll learn it properly,” he says with a smile.
Until then, the music plays through his paintings – quietly, vividly, and full of expression.
Life Is a Gamble” – Playing Cards in the Art of Kaikaoss
Playing cards run like a red thread through Kaikaoss’s work — not as a literal game, but as a symbol of life, fate, and risk. They appear as card houses, flying symbols, crowns, or quiet still lifes.
For Kaikaoss, playing cards are a metaphor for life itself:
“Life is a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose — and sometimes fate decides with a single roll. But only those who stay in the game can win.”
The cards embody luck, chance, focus, but also deception and impermanence — an ambiguity Kaikaoss explores in his unique style.
Building on art history traditions—from Caravaggio’s cards as deceit, Basquiat’s expressive symbols, to Cézanne’s meditative still lifes—Kaikaoss presents life as a game between control and chaos, stability and decay.
His key work, The House of Cards (in the IFC World Bank collection), shows two figures delicately building a card house — a fragile human construct ready to collapse at any moment.
In Life Is a Game, cards swirl in the air with people behind them: are they players or spectators? Controlling their fate, or controlled by it?
In After the Game, cards lie beside a pocket watch and wallet, a quiet, melancholic reflection on time, choices, and luck.
Kaikaoss’s playing cards invite us to reflect, interpret, and wonder — just like life itself: unpredictable, yet full of possibility.
"The Gambler with a Bird" is a multi-layered, profound work about the game of life, perception, power, and identity. Kaikaoss uses everyday symbols — eggs, cards, coins — and elevates them through composition to a higher level of meaning. The bird on the man’s head is not just a visual detail, but a key to interpretation: between cultural madness and spiritual wisdom, a figure emerges who may understand more than anyone else. Within the absurdity of the scene lies a quiet truth: those who seem mad sometimes see more clearly — especially when everyone else is blind.