Pierre Cayol
Pierre CAYOL, french contemporary painter born in Salon-de-Provence, France in 1939. He has lived in Tavel (Gard) since 1968.
Biography
He studied art in Grenoble and Paris at the Academy Jullian. His encounter in 1956 with Marcel Féguide in Eygalières had a decisive influence on his career.
His friendship with Baboulène since 1975 has given him the certainty that this is a course to be pursued, Michel Rodde has encouraged him too.
Member of the association "Contacts" in the seventies, he is a founding member of "QUICHUA" which organised thematic exhibitions.
He participated in the festival of Avignon and Toulon.
"Bilan de l'art contemporain" in Québec, Dallas, New-York.
With the French artist salon, be exhibited in Pekin and Canton.
He has been a full member of Autumn Salon of Paris since 1984. Many rewards and medals ; a prize winner in 1985 of the "Contemporary Painting" Ito-Ham in Paris.
The cities of Avignon, Tavel, Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres, Valréas have bought paintings also the museums of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Sedan, Uzès, Toulon, Salon-de-Provence,Châteauneuf-le-Rouge.
Very interested in the Native American People, he has travelled there several times in the southwest and particulary in New-Mexico and Arizona.
Therefore, be organised in Avignon an exhibition at the town library. He showed artifacts, arts and crafts ; and contemporary paintings by an Apache artist living in San-Carlos Apache Reservation.
Pierre Cayol illustrated poems by Marc Alyn, Jeannine Baude, Yves Berger, Jehan Despert, Micheline Dupray, Pierre Estellon, Jules Laforgue, Pierre Louys, Jean-Louis Meunier, Frank Ricci, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Rousselot.
There was a show of his works at Château de Lascours, during the days of Poetry in May 1989.
Since 1965, twenty and more personal exhibitions :
Arles, Bollène, Montélimar, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Toulon, Villefranchesur-Saône, Castillon du Gard, Nîmes, Uzès, Apt, Aix-en-Provence, Gallery Drouant in Paris, Avignon, Marseille, Beziers (France), Toronto (Canada), Solothurn and Charmney (Swiss), Séoul (South Corea), Sarasota (Florida - USA).