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Marc Raymond is a Swiss sculptor born on November 8, 1968 in Martigny.

He uses a traditional assembly technique of wood, to create abstract sculptures. His works made of wood and painted plywood, as well as his works on paper, have been exhibited in galleries and cultural centres in Switzerland, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal and Greece, during personal and group exhibitions.

Marc Raymond lives and works in Lisbon.

Biography
Marc Raymond was born on 1968, November 8 in Martigny, in the canton of Valais. He grew up in Saillon.

After his schooling, he trained as a carpenter and cabinetmaker, then studied at the Brienz Sculpture's School (Schule für Holzbildhauerei),. After obtaining his degree, Marc Raymond opened his own studio in Saillon in 1996. He mainly works with wood, but also stone, bronze and concrete. Centered on the human being at the beginning of his career, his sculptures become over time, more raw and massive, ,.

In 2001, the artist received the 3 rd. prize at the International Sculpture Symposium in Morges in Switzerland with the sculpture Homme à la grande main,. He was commissioned by the municipality of Saillon in 2002 to create a sculpture in the public space, La Ronde. This work, composed of seven 6,5 ft tall figurative sculptures. in bronze, pays homage to the residents of the village of Saillon for their diversity and their openness,.

Marc Raymond won the first prize the same year, for the creation of the sculpture for the Saillon's School Center. Representing a group of children, this sculpture prefigures, through its very simple forms and the material left raw, the evolution of the artist's work towards abstract sculpture.

In 2004, he exhibited at the Gallery Grande-Fontaine in Sion, Switzerland, raw human figures in wood, as well as a series of concrete sculptures. In 2005, while Marc Raymond lived in Madrid, he decide to stop figuration to devote himself entirely in to abstract art. He developed a new technique by constructing his sculptures with wood assemblies rather than sculpting by subtraction of material.

The Découpages series, an assembly of paper surfaces without any color or glue, was created in 2007. These two-dimensional cuttings will lead to the creation of the Interfaces sculpture series from 2008 to 2010. These sculptures are made of construction plywood assembled and painted in monochrome colors. The coherence of the works is found in the play of balance, imbalance and internal tensions. The sculptures are placed on the ground, on pedestals or inclined against walls, ,. They are exhibited during several personal exhibitions - notably at the Center des Art Léo-Ayotte in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada in 2008, at the Art School Gallery in Ottawa, Canada in 2009, at the Center d'Exposition de Mont-Laurier, Quebec, Canada in 2010, at the Maison des Arts et de la Culture in Brompton, Quebec, Canada in 2011 , as well as at the Athens Art Gallery in Athens, Greece in 2014 with a text by Swiss curator Benoît Antille ,. In 2013, the artist created the first sculpture from the series Bout à bout, with Rouge n.1. It is exhibited in the garden of the residence of the Swiss Ambassador in Athens then at the Athens Art Gallery in 2014. This series is made of raw construction timber assembled end to end, it will continue in the following years,. The artist exhibited again in 2017 at the Galerie Grande-Fontaine in Switzerland. Built with fir and larch boards, common building materials in Switzerland, his sculptures become more massive and bare. The raw material and the assemblages can be seen, while certain parts of the sculpture are painted in bright colors,.

In 2019, his solo exhibition Éloge à la Main took place at the Athens Art Gallery in Greece, with a text by independent curator and art critic Maria Xypolopoulou for the catalog. Alongside his sculptures which tend more and more towards simplicity, he exhibits the continuation of the Bout à Bout series with the sculptures Construction 1, 2 and 3 as well as twenty decoupages on paper forming a set of 7 by 7 ft [,.

Marc Raymond lives and works in Lisbon.

Personal exhibitions

 * 2019 : PRAISE TO THE HAND, Athens Art Gallery, text by Maria Xypolopoulou, Athens, Greece,.
 * 2017 : Galerie Grande Fontaine, with Martine Rouiller, Sion, Switzerland,.
 * 2014 : Athens Art Gallery, text by Benoît Antille, Athens, Greece,.
 * 2013 : Residence of the Swiss Ambassador, Athens, Greece.
 * 190124MR007.jpg 2011 : Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Brompton, Quebec, Canada,.
 * 2010 : INTERFACES, Mont-Laurier Exhibition Center, Quebec, Canada.
 * 2009 : INTERFACES, Ottawa School of Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada.
 * 2009 : Galerie Cube, with Mary Wong, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 * 2009 : Residence of the Swiss Ambassador, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 * 2008 : Galerie de l'Alliance Française, with Ingo Hessel, Ottawa, Canada.
 * 2008 : CONSTRUCTIONS, Atrium Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 * 2008 : Center des Arts Léo-Ayotte, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada.
 * 2005 : Gallery of the Château de Venthône, with Isabelle Fontannaz, Switzerland,.
 * 2004 : Galerie Grande Fontaine, with Gilles Scherlé, Sion, Switzerland.
 * 1999 : Galerie de la Treille, with Paula Gaillard, Sion, Switzerland.

Main group exhibitions

 * 2024 : IN&OUT exhibition, Espace Sohome, Lisbon, Portugal.
 * 2023 : 50 YEARS OF VISARTE VALAIS, Manoir de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland,.
 * 2018 : Arthoteque of the canton of Valais, Sion, Switzerland,.
 * 2017 : Summer exhibition, Athens Art Gallery, Athens, Greece.
 * 2014 : ART ATHINA, with the Athens Art Gallery, Athens, Greece.
 * 2013 : 40 YEARS OF VISARTE VALAIS, Manor in the town of Martigny, Switzerland.
 * 2001 : EIGHT ARTISTS, Galerie La Grange in Vannay, Monthey, Switzerland.

Honors

 * 2016 : Prize of the Academy of Athens for the book National Garden, by Nikolaos Tambakis and Elissabet Bargianni, photographs by Marc Raymond,.
 * 2009 : becomes a member of VISARTE, Society of Professional Visual Artists, Switzerland,.
 * 2002 : 1 prize for the sculpture project for the School Center, completed in 2003, Saillon, Switzerland,.
 * 2001 : 3 Jury Prize, International Sculpture Symposium, Morges, Switzerland.
 * 1998 : 1 prize, Art Sierre, Sierre, Switzerland,.

Liens externes

 * Official website
 *  Art related ressources : SIKART
 *  Authority Control Databases : VIAF, IdRef
 * Library of Valais, « livret Marc Raymond sculpteur », on Médiathèque du Valais, 2003.
 * Sculpture's School Brienz