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Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was a polarizing figure for America. Along with the many who joined his movement, there were others who disagreed with his conservative views, one much more so than others. His assassination last year may have made him perhaps more popular in death than in life. Unfortunately, for New York City sculptor Sergio Furnari, that doesn’t appear to have translated to his art, as a life-size statue of the activist that he created at his own cost has been unable to find any potential buyers.
The statue, created of steel and resin, features Kirk seated with a microphone and a shirt that says “freedom” on it and answers the eternal question “what if someone made a haunted statue of someone based on a description of what they looked like from someone who only saw him once?” It does look vaguely like the slain activist, but maybe not enough to pay $100,000 for, which is what Furnari says it cost in materials and labor for him to make. In fact, an online fundraiser for the work of art says that he sold his own apartment to finance the statue. That fundraiser, by the way, has only raised a little over $8,000 of the $150,000 it’s seeking.
Things may have literally gotten off on the wrong foot for Furnari, as he said that he tripped over a roll of tape recently, breaking his foot. Also not helping his cause is that he doesn’t even agree with Kirk’s views, which is probably something he should have waited to say until after he sold the statue. “I wasn’t a fan of Charlie,” he told The Guardian. “Like one thing that I couldn’t stand about him while he was alive [was] when he was talking about Palestine. ‘Oh no, Palestine doesn’t exist.’ I thought: ‘Well, this guy must be out of his mind.’”
So why did he create the statue without already having a taker for it? Likely because he was attempting to be as grifty as possible, hoping the Kirk Foundation, or maybe someone who made $2.2 billion in his first year in office as the 47th president, would buy it. The fundraiser notes “sadly none of the politicians/entrepreneurs/supporters have contacted him” to buy it. However, if you ask him why he made it, he’s significantly more grandiose. “The same reason why Michelangelo did the Pieta, or Michelangelo did the David, or Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Why? Just to commemorate a moment, you know, a person,” he said.
Michelangelo and da Vinci probably didn’t rail against how cheap people were for not buying their art, however. Furnari ranted to the Guardian, stating, “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.” So there it is. If you want to support an artist who didn’t support the person he made a tacky-looking statue of, it’s still yours for the taking. As long as you’re not one of those cheap people. He plans on displaying the statue in Times Square on September 10th, which will surely not be protested by anyone.
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