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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49671403

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.

  • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ah yes. Michelangelo’s Pieta, the Mona Lisa…the Kirk.

    I know enough artists and yeah, of course people are cheap and undervalue art. But if you’re making art strictly to make money, you’re in the wrong game. Regardless of the subject matter, it just isn’t a well done piece. So you created an unattractive sculpture of a despicable man, hoped to make a million dollars from it, and you blame people being cheap? Nah.