'Potato Head of Palencia': Botched Restoration of Spanish Statue Draws Flak on Social Media

The 20th century artists must be turning in their graves after an unfortunate restoration of their work in Spain turned out to be an amateur’s work. The incident happened at the Unicaja bank’s building in the Spanish city of Palencia and has become the butt of jokes on social media, and even prompted a comparison to US president Donald Trump. The artist publicly denounced the “grotesque restoration" which has now joined the infamous ranks of ‘Potato Jesus’ and the mauled ‘Immaculate Conception.’ Originally, the artwork featured a smiling face of a woman as part of a Biblical statuary on top of the Unicaja Bank headquarters in Palencia, however after its apparent “restoration", the sculpture has become a crude parody, as local artist Antonio Guzman Capel pointed out on Facebook post. #Palencia tiene ya su propio #eccehomo Sospecho que la restauradora igual era pro #Trump ‍♂️ y se ha dejado llevar por la emoción de estos días en las #EleccionesEEUU pic.twitter.com/sXS0H2AJxg— Aitor Loizaga November 10, 2020 I love me a good botched #artrestoration, don’t you? 1 The new #Palencia statue2 #ImmaculateConception 3 The “fluorescent" #Ranadorio carving4 The “evergreen" #EcceHomo pic.twitter.com/xfNu6YFqoj— Kitty La Roar November 11, 2020 The Ecce Homo restoration work, which was infamously also called the “Potato Jesus", remains one of the most mocked restoration works.