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.
With or without ^
gang violence^ the neck hole?Hm.
If I turn it into a fountain, does the value of the statue increase or decrease?
So grifter is furious that he couldn’t monetise far right? Fucking good riddance then. Not because I’m saying this to defend those cretins. Making this persons statue is basically means he’s trying to immortalise his existence means his views too. If you don’t like him why make a fucking statue? What sort of brain dead idea is this? He could have donated that money to a charity instead trying to make easy bucks.
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.
Reminded me of this
Unrecognizable without a smaller face.
There should be a statue of Ron DeSantis killing old people with an axe
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Needs a sign. Empathy would have gone a long way.
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.
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.
HEYYYY YOU GUYSSSS
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
My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.
It looks like Russell Peters.
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.
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
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!”.
