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New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
(www.theguardian.com)
Lol the right has basically forgotten about him already
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
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.
If given the chance I would love to urinate on it
The amount of time it took me to realize that didn't say "Futanari"...
😐
Should have made it a fountain with the hole coming out of the neck
I'm pretty sure that's people's plan...
Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
If you get the right angle, the splashback could be pretty realistic...
Is this AI?
It’s slop, yes
Don't give him ideas, somebody might actually buy the Charlie Kirk fountain.
... Damn, if I had $100k to spare (and a drill) I might genuinely add that fountain to my yard.
The artist spent $100k, they thought it would sell for millions.
if it was a fountain someone would have bought it
This artist just needs to get good at marketing.
If he made it into a guerilla piece in some park and then "someone" shot it in the neck, pouring red paint on it, and then he "complained" about it to the press
....then it would be worth a lot
Let's make a freedom statue for a fascist because why not?
It's missing that neck...scratch.
It's a decent likeness, but somehow not quite creepy enough.
I wouldn't pay money or travel to see it, but if I happened to walk by it and I was sure of not catching a charge, I'd probably be willing to stop and piss on it.
His weird body is the creepy part of this statue. It looks like his body is underwater and you’re viewing it from above the surface in the way that makes it look squashed.
The guardians out here doing their best to help a Kirk fan sell his shit
Gotta find something to pad between articles from JK Rowling about how Dumbledore would happily murder Trans people and some Reform UK slimeball insisting Ukraine refugees were stealing all the NHS money.
Wonderful likeness. I know I might seriously injure myself if I were to punch it in the face… But I still want to punch it in the face.
It looks like dogshit. And that's before you even consider the fact that it looks like Charlie Kirk.
It’s got the Ronaldo statue vibes.
Labeling fascist culture war ghouls "activists" may literally be correct but I refuse to consider them so. They are not activists as we colloquially consider them. They are agitators, stochastic terrorists and our media has been laundering their awful slop for far too long.
Have fun in hell Charlie you scumbag.
Charlie Kirk was an “activist” in the same way that Horst Wessel was an “activist” - which is to say that the regime picked him up as a mascot after he got ganked, so the regime could get some blood on their flag and say “look what they did to my boy 😭”.
What sculptor has $100,000 to piss away???
If it included labour, all of them who want to make it
Maybe take the commission, THEN do the work next time. What a dumb ass.
Really takes off from the headline...
Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
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.
RIP Luis Jimenez, sculptor of “Blucifer”.
Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
Stick it in a pay toilet and you can still make your money back.
Make a Trump statue as well and you'd have the start of a pay toilet sculpture garden. World's first!
I didn't like the guy okay. But honestly at this point some of the shit the right has done to him seems really disrespectful.
Like way beyond a leftist saying "charlie kirk was a racist, misogynistic grifter"
Like what they do is well beyond discussing traits.
It's almost like they taxidermy-ed him (or whatever the word is) to roll him around to sell cheap shit to people who never knew who he was until he died.
This statue. His wife's behavior. The "pregnancy" . TPU
It's all so deranged.
I don't agree with his profession but let's be a little honest. It was a grift. He likely didn't believe half the shit he said. But that's all he will ever be known for.
Kinda sad.
But also this "artist" sounds like a grifter themselves. Just thought they could do a cash grab.
"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.’”
I think he was a harmful hatemongerer and I am glad he is dead.
But I agree about how off-putting it is for so many people to continue profiting off his death. They are scavengers milking a corpse for all they can. It's not about respecting the person he was, it's about shamelessly exploiting him for their own gain.
Yeah maybe "disrespectful" wasn't quite what I meant. Your description is more with how I was thinking.
The pure greed. Using a man's death for personal gain at that scale.
What would I do with an extra $100,000? I am sure I can come up with all sorts of ideas.
Easy. Bottom surgery and rent for a year and a motorcycle
That seems like a reasonable one. I would probably put nearly all of it towards my housing so that I can clear my mortgage debt more quickly. Maybe set aside a portion to pay off credit cards.
Bro is cashing in a little too late on a man who's been dead for almost a year. He should have taken a lesson from Erika Kirk on how quickly to get on the grift train.
Sorry Mr. Futanari, you missed out.