A statue of Charlie Kirk is set to be unveiled in the “center of the universe” in New York City on the one-year anniversary of his shocking death, the artist behind the homage announced.
Italian-born artist Sergio Furnari, who handcrafted the metal sculpture of the slain Turning Point USA co-founder, plans to reveal the statue in Times Square on Sep. 10 at 2:23 p.m. — one year down to the minute when Kirk was assassinated, he told The Post Tuesday.
The 57-year-old artist, who was born in Sicily and moved to the Big Apple 35 years ago, chose Times Square to unveil his metal sculpture as it is the heart of the city.
“You know, I’m a New Yorker, so Times Square is like La Piazza,” he said. “Everything happens in the city, in the center of the town.”
While he has chosen the center of Manhattan, Furnari was tight-lipped on the exact location where the life-sized statue of Kirk will be — but plans to mount it “really high on a truck so that everybody can see.”
“It’s going to be in the middle of Times Square, the center of the universe,” Furnari said in one of his many Instagram posts about the statue, according to News Nation.
“You can bring over whoever you want, family or friends. If you were a big fan of Charlie, this will be your opportunity to maybe find a little bit of peace or harmony.”
The statue was handmade by his “hand, soul and body,” Furnari wrote on Instagram and will be life-sized to Kirk’s 6-foot-5-inch stature.
“Charlie was a big guy. So it’s like, I would say like a six and a half [foot] tall guy,” Furnari told The Post.
“I could feel he looks more monumental,” he added.
Kirk, 31, is depicted in the statue wearing a gray sweatshirt with the word “FREEDOM” across his chest, while holding a microphone as he regularly did when debating lefty students at college campuses across the US — including on the day he was fatally shot at Utah Valley University.
The statue of Kirk is made out of metal frames covered in a strong resin used on airplanes and cars, but the artist hopes to raise enough money to make a stainless steel version of the monument so it is “bulletproof.”
Furnari, who has been working on the statue for over five months — sometimes for up to 15 hours a day — said the unveiling of his piece is not a political move.
He stressed that he is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but felt inspired to create art in the aftermath of Kirk’s death.
“I mean, the fact that, you know, people were making fun of this guy, that was like kind of something that I didn’t like,” Furnari said of the reaction online after his assassination.
“And also the fact that his wife, the way his wife got treated, you know, still gets treated, it’s kind of despicable.”
“It’s not like I was a fan or somebody that followed him. Actually, I didn’t agree with many of his things, but it’s about freedom of speech,” Furnari told The Post.
If you don’t agree with somebody, you don’t go out there and shoot them, he added, afraid that the Kirk haters are “trying to normalize this type of assassination.”
The sculptor who now calls Long Island City home even plans to extend an invitation to Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the unveiling ceremony in September.
“Sergio Furnari officially, an open letter, officially invites the mayor,” he told The Post.
“It would be like an hour commemoration…he can take my invites or he cannot take it.”
“It doesn’t really matter to me,” he quipped.
Turning Point USA did not immediately reply to The Post’s request for comment.