Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

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.

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[–] 31 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    How did he spend 100k on it? Is it made of gold?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Nah things are just expensive. It looks like bronze so that's probably many thousands possibly 10s of thousands. Any processes that he sent out for were probably crazy, plus transportation of the thing. Any tooling he had to buy could have been thousands more. I'm sure he's factoring work time and new york living expenses into the cost (keep in mind all these materials are also new york prices). We could maybe turn our nose up at the hourly rate he gave himself but it was probably weeks to months of working hours to make. He probably embellished a little to make the nice round claim of 100k, but I can believe 10s of thousands of dollars worth of labor went into this.

    Artists don't just struggle because no one will buy their work, art can be expensive as fuck to make depending on what kind of artist you are.

    Now don't get me wrong either. Making a Charlie statue is cringe as fuck and a bad idea. I can tell I don't like the artist or what he stands for. I'm sure he chose Charles because, as I mentioned, it's expensive as fuck to make art so he thought he was making something that would sell.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Ok, well, maybe next time he should think about wax figures and selling them to madam Tussaud's. But I've read, that Hitler also got deported from that place in 2016. Not sure if there's any more use for such of these.

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