No Buyers Yet For Charlie Kirk Statue, Sculptor in Debt
Sculptor Sergio Furnari spent his own money creating a sculpture of Charlie Kirk as an homage to free speech. Now that the sculpture is near completion, Furnari is $100,000 in debt and there are no buyers in sight for…
Sculptor Sergio Furnari spent his own money creating a sculpture of Charlie Kirk as an homage to free speech.
Now that the sculpture is near completion, Furnari is $100,000 in debt and there are no buyers in sight for the non-commissioned piece.
The Italian-born artist, who made the piece out of steel and resin, said he made it more as a monument to free speech and less as a monument to Kirk, co-founder if Turning Point USA, who was shot and killed last September.
“I wasn’t a fan of Charlie,” Furnari 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.’”
But Furnari was moved by Kirk’s murder and likened it to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon.
Funari hoped the statue would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture he intends to display in Times Square on Sept. 10 the one-year anniversary of Kirk’s death.
Now, the bronze-colored statue sits in a New York City art studio, holding a microphone and wearing a sweatshirt that says “FREEDOM.”
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