Jolanta Ciesielska: An aspiration to synthesize, to identify the dilemmas vital not only for an artist – the eternal questions about the limits of good and evil, about the source of anger and hatred, about a belief and reasons to reject it – encourages Sylwester Ambroziak to reach, yet again, for a new piece of wood, plaster, bronze, and to shape carefully a next version of the Question, most frequently addressed to a viewer.
The wooden sculptures by Sylwester Ambroziak – large, awkward, emanating a primitive charm, touching with their nude (both, literally and metaphorically speaking), sometimes contemporary in their expression, grotesque figures; all of them are of a monumental dimension. Due to this, they mark stronger their presence in the gallery space, more “carnally and really” than is the case of – equally expressive – the smaller size casts in bronze, being often a draft or one of the versions of the sculpture then developed into a larger size. The mentioned “carnal” qualities have been underlined by the sculptures size, skillfully applied chiaroscuro, sophisticated palette; thus making the audience to feel directly their emotional charge and the very fact of their existence. One cannot pass by these sculptures and not notice them as though they were indifferent objects placed in an indifferent display space. (…)
(“Sylwester Ambroziak: Sculpture” exhibition catalogue, the Artistic Exhibitions Bureau Contemporary Art Hall, Bydgoszcz 1997).