Mariusz Rosiak: (…) the artist attempts to prove nothing with his sculptures. He is satisfied to present poses, gestures, relations, conditions, thus unveiling our humanity – painful, twisted, entangled between the animal like and the god like – usually hidden under a monumental form. In the era of culture re-mythologizing, when elementary values – being the foundations of our world images – are being tested, Sylwester Ambroziak have been deliberating over the ethos of human existence. The world inhabited by his sculptures has been based on simple gestures and relations. It is legible not merely within the context of Jewish and Christian culture – being a partner for a certain direct dialogue (updating the Old and New Testament motives), but also within the context of a specific universe of dreams and utopia, when man poses a question what this world is really like and what it could have been…
(EXIT, Warsaw, no. 3 (39) 1999)