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[1][2].
After his schooling, he trained as a carpenter and cabinetmaker, then studied at the Brienz Sculpture's School (Schule für Holzbildhauerei)[5],[6]. 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 [7]. Centered on the human being at the beginning of his career, his sculptures become over time, more raw and massive [3],[8],[9].
In 2001, the artist received the 3rd. prize at the International Sculpture Symposium in Morges in Switzerland with the sculpture Homme à la grande main[3],[6].
Assemblée, marble, 5,2 ft, Saillon's School Center, 2003, Marc Raymond.Interfaces n.1, painted plywood, 2 ft, 2008, Marc Raymond
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 [10] , [11] .
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 [12] .
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 [8] . 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 [3] .
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 [13] . 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 [13] , [14] , [15] . 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 [13], 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 [15] , [16] as well as at the Athens Art Gallery in Athens, Greece in 2014 with a text by Swiss curator Benoît Antille [14] , [17] .
Red n.1, from the Bout à bout series, painted wood, 2m80, 2013, Marc Raymond.
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 [17],[14] . The artist exhibited again in 2017 at the Galerie Grande-Fontaine in Switzerland [18]. 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 [19] , [20] .
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[ [14] , [21] .
2016 : Prize of the Academy of Athens for the book National Garden, by Nikolaos Tambakis and Elissabet Bargianni, photographs by Marc Raymond [6] , [3] .
2009 : becomes a member of VISARTE, Society of Professional Visual Artists, Switzerland [5] , [3] .
2002 : 1 prize for the sculpture project for the School Center, completed in 2003, Saillon, Switzerland [12] , [3] .
^ abcJean-Marc Theytaz (May 10, 2004). "De la créativité dans le sang". Le Nouvelliste (Suisse) (in français): 34.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)Cite error: The named reference ":2" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ abIsabelle Bagnoud (September 15, 2015). "Tableaux de verre et sculptures en béton". Journal de Sierre (in French): 20.. Cite error: The named reference ":7" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^Jeremhyah Pellegrini (February 27, 2004). "Le rond-point de l'ouverture". Journal La Gazette de Martigny (in français): Couverture et 12-13.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ abcdKaty Le Van (March 2009). "Élégance de la forme". Journal Voir, Ottava-Gatineau (in français).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)Cite error: The named reference ":6" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ abArchives nationales du Québec (February 19, 2011). "Exposition Assemblage Marc Raymond". Journal La Tribune (in français).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)Cite error: The named reference ":9" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ abJean-Marc Theytaz (January 26, 2017). "De la couleur à la géométrie à la Grande-Fontaine". Journal le Nouvelliste (in français): 15.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)Cite error: The named reference ":11" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^Galerie Château de Venthône (2005). "Expositions". Galerie du Château de Venthône, Suisse (in français).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^Charly-G. Arbellay (May 27, 1998). "Il y avait le ciel, le soleil et les artistes". Journal Le Nouvelliste (in français): 21.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
Nikolaos Tambakis et Elissabet Bargianni (2016). Jardin National (in Greek). Athènes, Grèce: Amis du Jardin National. ISBN9786188257306.
Jacques Cordonier, Mads Olesen, Heinrich Gartentor, Anne Jean-Richard Largey, Véronique Ribordy, Josette Taramarcaz, Floriane Tissières (2013). 40 ans Visarte Valais catalogue (in French). Martigny, Suisse: Art Ray Éditions, Martigny.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).
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