My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.

People are cheap, man

Or people don't like nazis, it's a mystery!

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

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.

, but man, people are strange out there,” he said.

Errr...we didn't spend 100k on an ugly statue of a racist piece of shit. So who's the strange one here?

Maybe if he sold tickets to shoot at it?

"Try to hit Charlie" 25 dollars / shot at 100m.

It’s missing a hole.

Sounds like an oversupply problem.

Did they not check what the demand for fugly Charlie Kirk statues was prior to starting?

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.

“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.

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 ?

Create a problem in the stupidest way possible. Blame everyone but yourself.

The MAGA playbook.

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.

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 could make it into a fountain. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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.

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

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.

We're probably going to end up buying this thing with our tax dollars aren't we?

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.

Maybe he'll get more interest if he drills a hole in it's neck and turns it into a fountain.

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.

Well, if he adds the bullet hole to the throat he may have better luck.

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.

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.

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.

The fake online reality conservatives have created always falls apart on contact with reality

Hey guys, wanna buy my Hitler statue? I've spent $100k on it and I'm so proud of it.

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.

Why did he make the face so small compared to the head?

Sounds like a grifter. I hope he never ever gets commissioned again.

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

How come this git is still in the news? He was not someone of any importance, not domestically and definitely not internationally.

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.

This artist sucks, he didn't get Charlie Kirk's face nearly small enough on that stupid head of his.

Surely, SURELY there must be a rifle range that wants this?

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.”

If this is installed in public we can safely assume that the microphone will be painted to look like a penis.

Fascism sucks.

Yea no one cares. Not even his wife.

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.

Who's Charly Kirk ? /s

If no one wants to buy it, its not 100k.

Maybe he could make it into a fountain somehow

Drill hole in neck and turn it into a water fountain.

100k to make that? guess the grift is poetic for it

Reminded me of this

Sorry but hahhahahahahhaaa. Someone should vandalize it in the neck area.

Looks like he's.. angling for a job a SpaceX? https://www.sergiofurnari.com/take-us-to-mars/

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.

Well duh, it's missing Charlie - The Fountain's - best and most recent feature, ofc no one wants that.

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!".

This guy has his head up his ass as he tries to compare himself to Michelangelo.

I'm cheap because I'm not willing to spend millions on mediocre art, got it.

There should be a statue of Ron DeSantis killing old people with an axe

Womp womp

No golden calves etc etc

Is it cursed? If it'll cause an eccentric collector to want to buy it then absolutely, yes.

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.

Perhaps depicting the subject moments before their assassination was not the best idea.

If it had been a commemorative fountain it might have sold for a few hundred. I’d pitch in.

Needs a sign. Empathy would have gone a long way.

Why'd he make a statue of the 'little bits' guy?

(/s)

He’s just trying to cash in on blucifer hype

Why does it look like a muppet?

FAFO'd!

I have a business idea: put that thing in a hole and charge people to shit on it. Free toilet paper included.

Increasingly covinced a time traveler from the future shot kirk

Paper mache would have been a lot cheaper.

More of a Chirlie Kark.

Dude even looks like a choad in statue form.

The face to head proportions are way off

Not a single one of the bots that admired him wants his statue.

Unrecognizable without a smaller face.

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.

A bit expensive for target practice. Could just print out a photo of Kirk's neck and put it on a dummy.

does the Guardian usually write things as bluntly as in this article?

it's rather refreshing to see things stated for what they are

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?

Historically inaccurate head size.

With how this turns out he could make a fairly accurate statue of Mitch McConnell

There's no way some idiot that puts a cool mil into the right political spectrum wouldn't but that. He just didn't get enough coverage yet. Kinda sad we're helping, but i'm aparently doing that too. :(

Someone should shoot the statue in the neck.

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.