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 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
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.
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.
Ironically that would get enough ragebait to sell the statue
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.
Alternate title “racist moron wastes 100,000 dumping trash in times square”
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.
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.
Wherever this thing ends up, it will be begging for the most obvious bit of vandalism ever. One little hole turns it from a “touching tribute” into a real-life kirkpost.
I know a certain Washington DC artificial body of water that’s been looking a little “down in the dumps” recently, and could certainly be brightened up with a new sculpted fountain.
New shooting target just dropped
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
We’re probably going to end up buying this thing with our tax dollars aren’t we?
Needs a water feature to complete the aesthetic.
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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.
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.
