Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars
To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.
“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.
This one I would pay mountains of money for just because I crack up every time I see it and it never gets old
HEYYYY YOU GUYSSSS
This looks like it was made by Man★Gataro
he spent $100,000 on steel, resin and labor
So the real cost was probably a few grand in materials, at most, and he’s no doubt saying his time is worth $1000/hour or more.
It was a grift all along, especially wanting to display it in a place that just elected a “democratic socialist” mayor, one of the biggest Democrat strongholds.
Definitely, no way it’s 100k usd of work. Looking around the going rate for human sized metal statues is 15-50k in the US.
NYC is most definitely not a Democrat stronghold in the sense that it’s expected to go progressive in every election.
Since 1960 the republicans have won New York in the presidential election just 3 times, and not once since 1984. That’s 42 years ago.
It’s a Democrat stronghold if there ever was one.
Giuliani was the 2 term mayor during 9/11 from ‘94-‘01, then Bloomberg from ‘02-‘13
Eric Adams was a DINO for sure
42 years since the Republican won NYC in a federal election. That says all that needs to be said.
Shoulda made it a fountain, woulda sold in a hot minute.
Edit oh HELL NO “far right activist”?? What’s the matter, did shit flinging troglodyte have too many syllables ?
Fountain where the water comes out of the neck?
No no, take it further. Add an urinal, ground level so the ladies can use it too. Then add in a fountain motor and the neck hole… Kinda like a jukebox, instead of a coin you add in piss and instead of music you get a fountain!
// Heck, add a drinks stand next to it, sodas and slurpees… And a T-shirt stand selling shirts saying stuff like “I pissed in the Charlie Kirk piss fountain at the Charlie Kirk Piss Fountain Park!”
Where else?
Urinal backsplash
Create a problem in the stupidest way possible. Blame everyone but yourself.
The MAGA playbook.
There is no problem here, he can just melt the fucking thing back down and make sellable art instead.
A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it.
What sculptor has 100k of their own money?
He’s a New York sculptor, which means it was $100,000 of his parents’ money.
How did he spend 100k on it? Is it made of gold?
Nah things are just expensive. It looks like bronze so that’s probably many thousands possibly 10s of thousands. Any processes that he sent out for were probably crazy, plus transportation of the thing. Any tooling he had to buy could have been thousands more. I’m sure he’s factoring work time and new york living expenses into the cost (keep in mind all these materials are also new york prices). We could maybe turn our nose up at the hourly rate he gave himself but it was probably weeks to months of working hours to make. He probably embellished a little to make the nice round claim of 100k, but I can believe 10s of thousands of dollars worth of labor went into this.
Artists don’t just struggle because no one will buy their work, art can be expensive as fuck to make depending on what kind of artist you are.
Now don’t get me wrong either. Making a Charlie statue is cringe as fuck and a bad idea. I can tell I don’t like the artist or what he stands for. I’m sure he chose Charles because, as I mentioned, it’s expensive as fuck to make art so he thought he was making something that would sell.
Ok, well, maybe next time he should think about wax figures and selling them to madam Tussaud’s. But I’ve read, that Hitler also got deported from that place in 2016. Not sure if there’s any more use for such of these.
The kind that scams stupid fascists by making overpriced sculptures of their idols
I hope he took out loans and his life is ruined.
Summary: Artist tried to cash in on a person’s death only to find that the hateful people that were supposed to like the hateful person dont actually care about him one way or the other … and everyone with sense actually hates the guy.
More: Apprently he will put it on times square in 10th of September to raise awareness. Make sure to prepare your popcorns.
Awareness of what? I’m already aware that Charlie Kirk is dead.
"Instead, Furnari said he made the statue in an effort to “glorify and to exercise the first amendment, this freedom of speech”
¯ _(ツ)_/¯
Well, if he adds the bullet hole to the throat he may have better luck.
Would inserting a tube and turning it into a fountain be in bad taste?
Going by the man himself’s beliefs, no. “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.”
There you go folks. Kirk endorses the fountain idea. Let’s let the red kool aid flow so folks suffering from a thirst can find respite in the Kirk Fountain.
Masterpiece.
To not do it would be silencing ideas which would make you just like his killer.
it’s extremely shoddily made due to blatant inaccuracies.
obviously this statue needs a LOT more work to have any worthwhile representation of charlie kirk.
first of all, it’s missing the very important actively gushing neck hole.
second of all, he looks lucid and composed instead of convulsing due to sudden loss of oxygenated blood pressure in his brain.
i don’t think anyone will buy it until these glaring issues are amended.
Just grab a drill and you can fix the one issue.
Maybe he’ll get more interest if he drills a hole in it’s neck and turns it into a fountain.
How come this git is still in the news? He was not someone of any importance, not domestically and definitely not internationally.
All that guy was ever right about is that bullets are a pain in the neck.
Hey guys, wanna buy my Hitler statue? I’ve spent $100k on it and I’m so proud of it.
I don’t agree with what he did in the europe, but I want to support his family!
Didn’t think his scam through. He needed MAGA to front him the money for making it, then not have it sell. No one who ‘venerates’ Kirk would actually put their own money on the line for him.
Jesus that’s one fucked up statue. Did dude ever take an anatomy class? That’s worse than that statue of the soccer player that looks melted.
This was supposed to be a statue of Lucille Ball for her hometown. They call it Scary Lucy.
I Fear Lucy
That’s actually much much better than the Ronaldo statue lol
Surely, SURELY there must be a rifle range that wants this?
This artist sucks, he didn’t get Charlie Kirk’s face nearly small enough on that stupid head of his.
