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Recently, BuzzFeed shared news that artist Sergio Furnari planned on bringing his Charlie Kirk statue to Times Square in New York...
...and people were less than thrilled.
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In fact, there was a TON of conversation online about how the monument would likely be vandalized.
"Would be shocked if this lasted a week," one person reacted.
And there were even suggestions that the statue may be urinated on.
Well, in an interview with the Guardian, Furnari is now complaining about how no one seems to want the life-size figure that purportedly cost him $100,000 to create.
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According to the Guardian, Furnari hoped the statue would raise “millions” of dollars, but, instead, he's been "inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture."
So, you may be asking yourself, why did he choose to replicate the likeness of the controversial Turning Point USA founder?
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Here are his thoughts, in Furnari's own words:
“I wasn’t a fan of Charlie,” he said. “Like one thing that I couldn’t stand about him while he was alive [was] when he was talking about Palestine. [Kirk would say]: ‘Oh no, Palestine doesn’t exist.’ I thought: ‘Well, this guy must be out of his mind.’”
However, the sculptor said he wanted to “glorify and to exercise the First Amendment, this freedom of speech.”
"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,” he concluded.
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Yes. He compared his Charlie Kirk statue to the "Mona Lisa" and "David."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the comparison didn't go over well.
But what are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.
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