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If you dislike Charlie Kirk, urine for a treat.
Sergio Furnari, an Italian-born New York artist, told The Guardian in an article published Monday that he spent $100,000 of his own money making a life-size statue of the late Turning Point founder and thought it would raise “millions” of dollars — but no one wants to buy it.
He said that, instead, he “has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture,” which he intends to eventually display in New York City’s Times Square.
Kirk — a right-wing activist who made a name for himself going to college campuses and debating students about politics — died in September 2025 after he was fatally shot at a Utah event. He was 31.
Although he was beloved by the right — and was upheld as an integral political figure by MAGA after his death — those on the left criticized his divisive and often hateful rhetoric.
“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” Furnari told the Guardian of his statue.
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He later told the newspaper that although he didn’t agree with Kirk on “certain issues,” he felt creatively compelled to make the realistic replica of the conservative influencer.
“Why am I making the statue? The same reason why Michelangelo did the Pietà, or Michelangelo did the David, or Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Why? Just to commemorate a moment, you know, a person,” Furnari said.
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Last week, Furnari brought the statue into the studio at Newsmax and told the right-wing outlet that Kirk’s death profoundly affected him.
“I wasn’t really, you know, somebody that watches too much news,” Furnari told Newsmax. “But when [Kirk] got assassinated, it kind of shook me completely because he reminded me of JFK, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, John Lennon…The list can keep on going on and going on.”
Furnari added that he decided to “step in” and create the statue in Kirk’s memory because he didn’t like the way the media was treating Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk.
The Guardian also noted how Furnari mentioned that he created the statue to support Erika Kirk and “to ‘glorify democracy; and to ‘commemorate a person.’”
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The Guardian also wrote that it was clear Furnari “was hoping to make money” from the statue.
“He said he had expected unnamed wealthy figures to donate to him – he spent $100,000 on steel, resin and labor – but that has not come to pass,” the Guardian wrote.
A quick gander at Furnari’s Instagram account shows that Kirk is not the first controversial political figure who has acted as a muse for his art.
In April, he posted a video of a large bust of President Donald Trump he had sculpted. According to his post, it seems he hoped his Trump bust would help him get commissioned to etch the president’s face on Mount Rushmore — a desire Trump has expressed himself multiple times.
