Marc Raymond
Marc Raymond
Swiss Sculptor Marc Raymond uses an assemblage technique to create bare sculptures. His abstract work, made of painted plywood and wood, have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Galleries and Cultural Centres in Europe and Canada. Recently he exhibited in Switzerland at the Grande Fontaine Gallery in Sion and at the Athens Art Gallery in Greece.
Mr. Raymond has carried out several public commissions and is the recipient of awards in Switzerland. In 2009, he received fellowships from VISARTE, the Visual Arts Association in Switzerland. He is listed in the swiss dictionary of art of the Swiss Institute for the Study of Art, SIKART.
In addition to his sculpture work, Marc Raymond works with paper, presenting series of découpages, inks on paper and prints, close to the spirit of his sculptures.
Marc Raymond was born in Switzerland in 1968, he grew up in Saillon. He attended the Swiss School of Sculpture in Brienz for three years with a specialistion in statuary and obtained his diploma in 1996. After graduation, he carried out internships with several Swiss sculptors.
Marc Raymond lives and works now in Lisbon.
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Solo exhibitions
2025 Alliance Française Gallery, with Pedro Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 ÉLOGE À LA MAIIN, Athens Art Gallery, text from Maria Xypolopoulou, Athens, Greece
2017 Grande Fontaine Gallery, with Martine Rouiller, Sion, Switzerland
2014 Athens Art Gallery, text from Benoît Antille, Athens, Greece
2013 Park of the Swiss Ambassador’s residence, Athens, Greece
2011 House of Arts and Culture of Brompton, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
2010 INTERFACES, Centre d’Exposition, Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada
2009 Cube Gallery, with Mary Wong, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2009 Park of the Swiss Ambassador’s residence, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2009 INTERFACES, Ottawa School of Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2008 ASSEMBLAGE, Art Centre Léo-Ayotte, Shawinigan, Québec, Canada
2008 Alliance Française Gallery, with Ingo Hessel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2008 CONSTRUCTIONS, Atrium Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2005 Venthône Château Gallery, with Isabelle Fontannaz, Switzerland
2003 Grande Fontaine Gallery, with Gilles Sherlé, Sion, Switzerland
1999 Treille Gallery, with Paula Gaillard, Sion, Switzerland
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Exhibition IN&OUT, Espace Sohome, Lisbon, Portugal
2023 50th YEARS OF VISARTE VALAIS, Manoir de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland
2018 Artothèque from Canton du Valais, Sion, Switzerland
2017 Summer Exhibition, Athens Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2014 ART ATHINA, with the Athens Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2013 40 ANS DE VISARTE VALAIS, Manoir de la ville de Martigny, Switzerland
2007 Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2007 RED, Cube GALLERY, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2006 RETROSPECTIVE ARTISTS FROM THE GALLERY, Grande Fontaine Gallery, Sion, Switzerland
2003 Leewasser Gallery, Brunnen, Switzerland
2002 REPUBLIKA, Open Air Art Exhibitions, Gersau, Switzerland
2001 HUIT ARTISTES, La Grange à Vannay Gallery, Monthey, Switzerland
1999 ART VALAISAN, Espace Malraux, Chambéry, France
1998 HOLZ HAT VIELE GESICHTER, Germany, Switzerland
1997 Maison Stella Helvética, Saillon, Switzerland
1995 GOLDENER SCHLEGEL, Switzerland, Germany
Marc Raymond shapes materials with this sensitivity which allows, from the inert, to create a sculpture full of life. We feel the gestures of the man inhabited by a perhaps cosmic dimension which sometimes surpasses him and which he must materialize in his works. The emotions and inner life of the artist suddenly appear in full light, a way of materializing a quest and a harmony to be perfected, to be constructed, to be made visible.
Jean-Marc Theytaz, cultural journalist, Le Nouvelliste
