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.
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.
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?
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.Michelangelo at least waited until he was commissioned to do something. I translated an old Latin piece of conversation scroll between Michelangelo and the pope, it said…“Show me the money, bitch!”.
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.
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.
Surely, SURELY there must be a rifle range that wants this?
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.
Who’s Charly Kirk ? /s
This one I would pay mountains of money for just because I crack up every time I see it and it never gets old
This looks like it was made by Man★Gataro
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
This artist sucks, he didn’t get Charlie Kirk’s face nearly small enough on that stupid head of his.
Hey guys, wanna buy my Hitler statue? I’ve spent $100k on it and I’m so proud of it.
By looking at the statue one can tell he is a mediocre artist so I assume he tried to grift instead of shining with his artistic skills.
Wow the more I read the article the more shocked I am at how delusional this guy is. His chain of logic as to why he built the statue and what he expected from it are completely insane. He clearly expected right wing people to rain money on him for this statue. %100 grift. He may also be interested in having sex with Erica.
Charlie Kirk was just a baloon and this guy found that out quite painfully. The icing on the cake? He is angry that people are cheap lol:
“Things financially are a total, absolute nightmare. It’s like wow. People are cheap, man. You know, people talk, talk – I know lots of people out there, and everybody’s so cheap. You know, like, it’s disgusting how cheap they are.”
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.
