Mural Art, Bane

Chur is the hometown of the internationally renowned street artist Fabian Florin alias "Bane", who has already implemented several extraordinary graffiti artworks in Chur, including the largest mural in Switzerland to date. As founder and president of the Association for Urban Culture of the Grisons, Bane continues to drive this development, among other things with the Streetartfestival Chur, in the context of which the Plessurfischer was also created in 2021. "I knew immediately that a fisherman had to go on this wall. Further up the Plessur always fishes Fredy from the fishing club Chur, they call him the 'Plessur fisherman'. I photographed him and used him as a model for the picture. When I told him how big the picture would be, he just said 'you're crazy'. However, the fisherman, who died the following year, was pleased. Interestingly, the subject was copied a few years later by an Australian who sold it to the city of Melbourne under the title "Portrait of a Local Fisherman". In the meantime, however, the plagiarism has already been painted over. Bane took it with humor.


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