Pierre Cayol
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Pierre Cayol (born in Salon-de-Provence, France in 1939) is a French contemporary painter. He has lived in Tavel (Gard) since 1968.
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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 Peking 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 peoples, he has travelled there several times in the Southwest and particulary in New Mexico and Arizona. 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, he has had over twenty 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 Korea), Sarasota (Florida - USA).
