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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    With or without ^gang violence^ the neck hole?

    Hm.

    If I turn it into a fountain, does the value of the statue increase or decrease?

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    So grifter is furious that he couldn’t monetise far right? Fucking good riddance then. Not because I’m saying this to defend those cretins. Making this persons statue is basically means he’s trying to immortalise his existence means his views too. If you don’t like him why make a fucking statue? What sort of brain dead idea is this? He could have donated that money to a charity instead trying to make easy bucks.

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    Summary: Artist tried to cash in on a person’s death only to find that the hateful people that were supposed to like the hateful person dont actually care about him one way or the other … and everyone with sense actually hates the guy.

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    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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    Michelangelo at least waited until he was commissioned to do something. I translated an old Latin piece of conversation scroll between Michelangelo and the pope, it said…“Show me the money, bitch!”.

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    it’s extremely shoddily made due to blatant inaccuracies.

    obviously this statue needs a LOT more work to have any worthwhile representation of charlie kirk.

    first of all, it’s missing the very important actively gushing neck hole.

    second of all, he looks lucid and composed instead of convulsing due to sudden loss of oxygenated blood pressure in his brain.

    i don’t think anyone will buy it until these glaring issues are amended.

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    How come this git is still in the news? He was not someone of any importance, not domestically and definitely not internationally.