Sylwester Ambroziak
Sylwester Ambroziak, phot. from the artist’s archive
Sylwester Ambroziak (b. 1964, Łowicz) graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he earned his diploma in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski. He has participated in over one hundred solo exhibitions and more than one hundred forty group shows in Poland and abroad, and has been a multiple-time recipient of prestigious fellowships. He was nominated three times for the Paszport Polityki (Polityka’s Passport) award (1994, 1999, 2008).
Ambroziak creates sculptures, drawings, installations, and animated films, and is best known for his monumental figures made from wood, silicone, acrylic compounds, and epoxy resin. His work is characterized by expressionist simplification of forms, exaggerated proportions, striking polychromy, and inspiration drawn from primitive, archaic, and folk art. In his pieces, he combines ancient and biblical motifs with elements of mass culture, creating grotesque, oversized figures.
