Sylwester Ambroziak, Standing On Her Head

The sculpture entitled 'Standing on her head' from the 'Dolls' series was created by Sylwester Ambroziak. It was created during an open-air workshop in 2007 in Nietulisko near Kielce. It was carved in the traditional manner with a chisel and hammer in a block of sandstone. Thanks to their distinctive styling, Ambroziak's sculptures are characteristic and easily recognizable. The artist created the figure of a man with a roughly chiseled silhouette, a disproportionately large head and an elongated torso. The artist described the process of creating his works as follows: "The shape of my sculptures is the result of several years of searching for a form that would best suit my temperament. I look for elements of the first in man, which is why I turn to religious folk and primitive cultures - African or Amazonian, but at the same time I draw from mass culture: comic books and animated films. Sculpture today has lost its spirit, I try to revive it, to find emotions in it. I don't treat my figures just as sculpture, it's my language, a kind of theatre, a way of communicating. It's closer to shamanism."