Magdalena Ujma: (…) The works by Sylwester Ambroziak are instantly recognizable due to their expressive stylization. This is the emotion – imposed upon the material – that changes an ordinary piece of wood into an image of human figure under the pressure of existence. The stylized unification, the pressure are so strong that individual histories and individual features do not count at all. The one and only figure is being continuously repeated, or in fact – two or even three figures. They are presented alone or together, always in thought over composition. Ambroziak has been fully aware of what he intends to achieve. He is familiar with the material and knows how to counterbalance the most headlong composition; both an extremely simple one – that it could seem to be banal, as well a baroque one with regard to its dynamics. He is eager to apply chiaroscuro and ornamental openings. The sculptures form is always diversified, disturbing. The wave like composition lines pointed vertically or diagonally add a touch of movement to the static, simple, firmly founded forms.
(“Sylwester Ambroziak: Sculpture” exhibition catalogue, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, December 1996/January 1997)