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.
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.
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.
This looks like it was made by Man★Gataro
Hey guys, wanna buy my Hitler statue? I’ve spent $100k on it and I’m so proud of it.
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.
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.”
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.
The kind that scams stupid fascists by making overpriced sculptures of their idols
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 face to head proportions are way off
What a cynical move.
That’s not art. That’s a grift.
Which is suitably fitting.
As is the subsequent failure of that grift.
Dude even looks like a choad in statue form.
Thank heavens TheGuardian has become a global mouthpiece for this work, prompting a surge of interest in this topic, a boost the artist will appreciate.
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.
That’s actually much much better than the Ronaldo statue lol
So he wanted to make big money, and failed to research his market? Tough luck.
Maybe add a drain to it, so people can use it as a urinal.
My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.
It looks like Russell Peters.
We’re probably going to end up buying this thing with our tax dollars aren’t we?
The White House could use another shitty nazi on the lawn.
