Eulalia Domańska: Being in the company of the sculptures by Sylwester Ambroziak, one enters a strange world; both, familiar and unfamiliar. One is struggling with contradictory feelings – we have already seen it somewhere, though after a moment we doubt it. Watching the life size naked figures, slightly deformed, with expressive gestures, sometimes expressive faces, one looks into a symbolic world of the artist’s imagination reaching to the tradition of the sculpted figure.
(…) A number of authors writing about his art, underline his sculptures magic and mystic expression. The hybrids by Ambroziak have heads of a goat or a ram – fauna representatives associated with the symbol of sacrifice. The artist has created a place inhabited with these creatures, an autonomous world saturated with strong emotions of the characters who are fighting, possibly dancing, one time they are piercingly crying, then – embracing tenderly. (…) Ambroziak, following in the footsteps of former humanists, defends a human being as a top value, simultaneously placing himself outside all other ideologies – would it be religious, political or artistic. The artist has discovered not falsified, pure spirituality in the primeval, form, free from an ideology that would have twisted it, and frequently, brought about suffering through a demand to observe abstract rules.
He has created his own mythology, a world inhabited by universal hybrids, the world of monumental creation and unique character.
(“Sylwester Ambroziak: Sculpture” exhibition catalogue, the Artistic Exhibition Bureau Contemporary Art Gallery, Olsztyn 2002, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń 2002)