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 looks like Russell Peters.
People are cheap, man
Or people don't like nazis, it's a mystery!
I heard the main reason people didn't want to buy this is that it doesn't adequately reflect Charlie Kirk's towering stature in the world. If he made a 100-foot-high version in gold, Elon Musk told me he'd personally pay billions for it.
It's also just objectively a horrible statue. The body proportions are just awful. You can tell he's spent 90 percent of his time and effort on the head and just draped the body in baggy clothing to hide his work.
I guess I shouldn't blame man for trying to scam the right, I mean they are basically asking for it.
I think what he meant is nazis are cheap.
The rich ones can spend money on elections that buys them power, but they absolutely will not waste their money on statues.
Other nazis are really really cheap.
Kind of like the same result of JFK for "opposite reasons."
"People are cheap" is something you say when someone tries to haggle a 90% discount on your like-new dresser that you listed for an already cheap $40 on craigslist. It is not something you say when someone fails to buy your statue of a person who was human garbage, made out of actual garbage, for 1000% return on your already bullshit overinflated supposed cost of 100k for like $200 in materials and your (apparently) very precious time and effort. You're cheap dude, and an idiot. Get a commission first and make an actual sculpture out of actual sculpting materials (clay, stone, metal, even fucking plaster) instead of spray painting a cotton t shirt and some Levi's, dude. Your time is worthless when this is the outcome.
If I had a shooting range and this shit was like $2100 I'd buy it.
I love historical reenactments
This is the funniest article:
In desperation, Furnari set up an online fundraising campaign, hoping to raise an initial $150,000, but potentially millions of dollars, which he said would allow him to take the statue on tour. As of Thursday, he had raised $1,400.
And then he goes on:
“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.”
He also compares himself to Michelangelo
Maybe he meant Michaelangelo the ninja turtle.
Too much time has passed for him to make money on the Kirk grift. Gotta ride that corpse before everyone else riding it wears it down to dust.
Maybe he's hoping this article will get enough people making fun of him that our disrespect will catch the right's attention and paying him millions will be owning the libs. There might be money in that grift, still.
Maybe if he sold tickets to shoot at it?
"Try to hit Charlie" 25 dollars / shot at 100m.
Awesome idea! If nothing, it might encourage TPUSA to buy it to save his image. If they don't, then we'll know what they really feel about him.
If the 'artist' knocked a couple zeros off the price, that would make a fine statue in a pool with water squirting out his neck.
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Sounds like an oversupply problem.
Did they not check what the demand for fugly Charlie Kirk statues was prior to starting?
It was manufactured outrage over some podcaster who got shot. It's not surprising that there are no buyers, they never cared.
The way you phrase that kinda makes the artist out to be an idiot.
I’m wondering if he saw the manufactured tributes across all the news to that POS and didn’t understand that it was all manufactured and Kirk’s influence was with a very small number of poor stupid people (or foreign influencers).
There is no way that this thing consumed material worth $100k. It's a steel wire frame with an outer shell coated in resin, and spray painted.
This grifter is trying to leverage the coverage and hopes to raise some money by artificially inflating the price beforehand so that piece of crap is deemed to be worth anything.
"I value my time at 20k an hour. This took all afternoon."
“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.”
The whole article is filled with gems like this and the exact right length for this sort of human interest piece about someone who is just trash.
During a cost of living crisis this guy drops 100k+ on something no one asked for and complains that people are cheap.
I get that people do own statues, but who exactly did he think was going to buy this? Anyone stupid enough to like this either in content or execution is too stupid to have the money to spend on it. Anyone rich enough to afford it could spend their money on things they actually like and don't just pretend to. Not that intelligence and wealth appear to have anything to do with each other at this point, but this guy clearly doesn't understand the way things work.
Alternate title "racist moron wastes 100,000 dumping trash in times square"
Man discovers that the attention span in the modern world is measured in minutes, not years.
His previous works included a statue of the Hawk Tuah girl and a large labubu doll. Both still available.
He's working on a recovered Mitch McConnell.
Create a problem in the stupidest way possible. Blame everyone but yourself.
The MAGA playbook.
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!"
100k? That cost 100k? The likeness is not bad (which is not helping the appeal), but just speaking artistically nothing else about that statue is even acceptable, particularly for 100k.
It looks like a pole frame with newspaper padding for the body, an actual t shirt and jeans drapped over that body that has so much glue saturated into them to harden them that they look like they are soaking wet, literal stickers for the "FREEDOM" letters on the shirt, an actual microphone prop shoved into a mannequin hand bolted on the end of the arm pole, actual shoes on the feet, multiple colors of metallic spray paint, and a thick clear coat sealant. Like $200-300 dollars in materials for the entire body, tops. How did you spend 100k on this? Did you pay a 100k licensing fee for use of his likeness or something? This feels like a tax write-off scam or something. What a fucking waste of money, regardless.
I'd have to assume a gross overvaluation of the labour provided. Presumably he's setting his own value, as nobody commissioned the thing, he hired himself at I don't know... 1500 dollars a second or something, and then also had a team of middle-schoolers do the actual work by the look of it.
You think that's the work of an entire team?
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.
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.
HEYYYY YOU GUYSSSS
If they make it like one of those virgin mary miracle statues where it shoots blood out its neck once a day this shit will sell in a second.
Until then, Furnari is left with a 6ft 4in statue of a renowned racist, which he has spent $100,000 making, and which no one wants to buy.
The shade lmfao
Damn. Little guy, but big hatred 🤣
As a five five dude. Pretty sure we are all filled with hate, it's just a matter of what we hate.
lol I got hate for racists and shit for sure so you’re not wrong
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.
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.
42 years since the Republican won NYC in a federal election. That says all that needs to be said.
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.
I hate it, but I was thinking similar. Basically an attempt to grab enough attention so that potential buyers know it's available, and next thing you know this statue is sitting on the campus of some public elementary school in Iowa.
I'd give it fifteen minutes before it's got a hole drilled in its neck.
He's angry because he decided to spend all his money making a statue of a person he says even he didn't like and for some unknown reason expected people to rain money down on him for doing this, and people aren't.
“I was thinking that it was going to resonate with the world, with whoever, but man, people are strange out there,” he said. “Meaning like, nobody is really coming up with support, especially financial support. So far I’ve spent all my money on this.”
What a fucking idiot.
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.
Awareness of what? I'm already aware that Charlie Kirk is dead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Needs a water feature to complete the aesthetic.
I still don't know who this mofo is, but he looks even more dumb as hell every time I see him.
...kind of like how people say Mona Lisa's eyes follow you, only I feel like he is projecting stupidity towards me.
He didn't just look dumb. He also looked weird. There were a lot of memes about how his face was too small for his head. Now I don't normally think it's too relevant how weird a person looks, but in this case, the guy is trying to sell a weird looking sculpture.
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.
He got off lucky, sculptures have been known to do worse
That's obviously not going to stop him, lol.
If he wanted attention, he should’ve started by saying the statue was commissioned and canceled, before even starting. Then he could’ve used the money to make the statue or have just taken the money and ran. Also, what an odd golden calf.
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.”
Unfortunately this Charlie Kirk statue is made of cheap materials spray-painted to look like metal. So if you tried to melt it down you'd just end up tragically burning it to ash. It would actually burn at a much lower temperature than you'd need to melt a proper statue, so everyone needs to be very careful around it with lighters, gasoline, etc., lest there be a mishap.
Sounds like an opportunity to import a tradition.
Fascism sucks.
Furnari’s latest plan is to place the statue in Times Square on 10 September
You know what to do New York
Put in a little piddle-catcher and charge a dollar a wee...
Just saying', you could be making the money back, you just ain't trying.
If no one wants to buy it, its not 100k.
The article mentions that it cost the artist $100k in materials to make
Labor and materials. It's definitely not $100k in just materials, even with the cost of bronze (especially since it doesn't look like solid bronze, it looks like bronzed clothing). He must be figuring a very high wage for himself.
Cocaine and Hos not cheap.
That's an old-fashioned view. The magic of modern capitalism is that you can lose money every single day, providing something no one wants, and still get valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.
Reminded me of this
Drill hole in neck and turn it into a water fountain.
Looks like he's.. angling for a job a SpaceX? https://www.sergiofurnari.com/take-us-to-mars/
He's an Elon Musk fan who touts a statue of ordinary workers around SpaceX's HQ without noticing any irony. And he calls himself a scientist of thermal tiles because some of his art works are ceramics. The guy seems like a Grade A MAGA grifter and idiot: no notion of what a scientist is or how much they know that he doesn't, a burning desire for Elon Musk to notice him with no clue that Musk will never give a shit, and an ongoing effort to scam people into buying wildly overpriced MAGA merchandise.
The lunch on a beam sculpture looks better than the Charlie Kirk one though.
Sorry but hahhahahahahhaaa. Someone should vandalize it in the neck area.
Is it cursed? If it'll cause an eccentric collector to want to buy it then absolutely, yes.
Well duh, it's missing Charlie - The Fountain's - best and most recent feature, ofc no one wants that.
This guy has his head up his ass as he tries to compare himself to Michelangelo.
Any Kirk grift this guy can do, Kirk’s widow probably already did, better.
He looks like an asshole, very realistic 👍
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.
He’s just trying to cash in on blucifer hype
l i t t l e b i t s
Dude even looks like a choad in statue form.
Or a Chuck Testa
I have a business idea: put that thing in a hole and charge people to shit on it. Free toilet paper included.
Not a single one of the bots that admired him wants his statue.
Why does it look like a muppet?
Yes, we can read the body text.
does the Guardian usually write things as bluntly as in this article?
it's rather refreshing to see things stated for what they are
Historically inaccurate head size.
With how this turns out he could make a fairly accurate statue of Mitch McConnell
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.
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My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.
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